The present study, in an out-patient setting for substance use treatment in adolescents, examines the effect on treatment retention of a mobile telephone follow-up technique (interactive voice response), with or without personal feedback. Subjects in treatment for substance use disorders will be followed by automated mobile telephone contact with questions about psychiatric symptoms and substance use, and the investigators hypothesize that this technique, including a personal feedback reporting back to the client whether his or her status is changing in one way or another, may increase the treatment retention, possibly by means of an intensified treatment contact.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
73
Personal feedback is given at the end of each automated telephone follow-up call, and reports back to the patient whether his och her symptom status is better, worse or equal, compared to the previous telephone call.
Control condition. Identical follow-up but without personal feedback.
Maria Malmö, Dept of Psychiatry Skane and City of Malmö, Sweden
Malmo, Skåne County, Sweden
Retention in substance use disorder treatment
Duration of retention in treatment and whether the client remains in treatment at 3 months or not.
Time frame: 3 months
Improvement in substance use
Do patients in the intervention group improve more than in the control group, with respect to substance use (alcohol/drug use), during the duration of the interactive voice response intervention?
Time frame: 3 months
Improvements in psychiatric symptoms
Do patients in the intervention group improve more than in the control group, with respect to psychiatric symptoms, during the duration of the interactive voice response intervention?
Time frame: 3 months
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