Understanding Pathways to Wellness and Recovery in Detroit - Digital Recovery Support Services

Brandeis University65 enrolled

Overview

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if digital recovery support services (such as smartphone app) help to support alcohol recovery. We focus on a community of Black and African American people with alcohol use disorder (AUD) who receive in-person recovery support services from a recovery community center. Participants will: * Have an initial 2-hour in-person visit with the research team. During this visit, participants will be asked about themselves and their recovery from alcohol problems. They will also learn about digital recovery resources. * Use digital recovery resources on their own for 12 weeks. * Complete a short, weekly survey about their experience using digital recovery resources. * Have a follow-up 1-hour in-person visit where the researcher asks about again about the participants, their recovery and how they felt about using the digital recovery support services.

See study Detailed Protocol in Study Documents.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Alcohol Use Disorder Recovery Outcomes Digital Health

Interventions

Digital recovery support servicesBEHAVIORAL

The primary intervention is the provision of a menu of digital recovery support services (D-RSS) to participants, along with a phone and data plan (if needed) and technical assistance. We have created a menu of D-RSS options that have been vetted by our team as appropriate for a range of recovery goals (e.g., manage emotions, track sobriety, connect with others) and for a range of technological literacy, as well as being culturally relevant or at minimum culturally agnostic. Types of D-RSS presented to participants include mobile applications, websites, and video playlists, all of which relate to and support addiction recovery. Participants also may use other D-RSS that they identify.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Able to communicate in English and read at an 8th grade reading level. 2. Able to read and sign an informed consent form. 3. Comfortable with smartphone technology or willing and able to learn. 4. Identify as Black or African American. 5. Is an adult over the age of 18. 6. Is in recovery from alcohol problems for at least 3 months and no more than 5 years. 7. Is receiving in-person recovery support services at our partner recovery community center at the time of screening and enrollment. 8. Willing to receive and respond to weekly texts with a survey link for brief assessments, and complete two in-person research assessments (baseline and 13-week). Exclusion Criteria: Does not meet inclusion criteria

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Usability and Acceptability of D-RSS

We include a module consisting of 20 items measuring usability and acceptability on a 4-point Likert scale (strongly disagree, disagree, agree, strongly agree). These items were selected from several sources, so do not have a pre-existing scale; we will consider whether a scale is appropriate by examining inter-item correlations and Cronbach's alphas for potentially conceptually similar subsets of items.

Time frame: At the end of the trial (13 weeks)