The goal of this study is to reduce impaired driving, risky driving and alcohol-related negative consequences among injured emergency department (ED) patients through a telephone brief intervention. This study will allow researchers to test a novel method of brief intervention that has the potential to be convenient and efficient mechanism to deliver an intervention to an at-risk population. Eligible patients will be consented in the ED, will receive an assessment and then will be randomized into one of two conditions: 1) telephone brief intervention or 2) a comparison control group with a home safety educational program. The participant will also receive an appointment for an initial telephone call. Both conditions will be provided over three telephone sessions: the initial call (immediately following randomization) and two booster calls at 2 weeks and 6 weeks after randomization. Participants will provide information about their alcohol use, alcohol-related injuries, impaired driving, and other driving related negative consequences at 4, 8, and 12 months post-randomization.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
730
Telephone-delivered counseling
No intervention
Rhode Island Hospital
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
The Miriam Hospital
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Change in number of patients with alcohol-related negative consequences from baseline to 4, 8, and 12 months post-randomization
Specifically, the effect of the intervention on alcohol-related injuries and alcohol-related psychosocial consequences from baseline at 4, 8, and 12 months post-randomization.
Time frame: Change from baseline in alcohol-related negatve consequences at 4, 8, and 12 months
Evaluation of mechanisms of change model
Determine the moderators and mediators of primary outcomes.
Time frame: 12 months post-randomization
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