ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

mHealth to Enhance & Sustain Drug Use Reduction of the QUIT BI in Primary Care

Study Overview

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Description

The QUIT-Mobile study proposes to use mobile phone self-monitoring and feedback to enhance and sustain over 12-months the impacts of the Quit Using Drugs Intervention Trial (QUIT), an effective screening and brief intervention (SBI) previously successful in reducing risky drug use (i.e., moderate use) in low-income, diverse patients over a 3-month follow up. The investigators will conduct the QUIT-Mobile study for patients who receive care in clinics of federally qualified health centers (FQHC) in Southern California over 12-months follow up. The study is an Effectiveness-Implementation Hybrid Type 1 design consisting of a single-blind, 3-arm, RCT with adult, mostly Latino FQHC primary care patients with risky drug use (ASSIST score 4-26), randomized to 3 conditions (n=200/arm, n=600 total): 1) QUIT-Mobile; 2) standard QUIT; 3) Usual Care. Qualitative data on implementation facilitators and barriers will inform future scale-up and sustainability, in addition to cost data analyses. The aims are to examine effectiveness in reducing risky drug use and cost-effectiveness comparing the three arms over 3-, 6- and 12-months. Drug use measures include self-reports for past 30-days and urine drug screen validation for underreporting (acknowledging that people with moderate risk drug use have sporadic drug use patterns requiring longer self-report recalls for drug use that urine screens may not detect). The 3-arm study enables testing of the independent and synergistic effects of QUIT-Mobile compared to QUIT and both to Usual Care. The 12-month timeline reflects annual primary care visits when screening and brief intervention would be repeated routinely. The QUIT intervention contains 3 primary components: 1) patient screening with the WHO ASSIST, 2) brief clinician advice (\<3 minutes) including opioid overdose prevention education, and 3) 2- and 6-week telephone drug-use health coaching sessions utilizing motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral techniques, delivered by paraprofessional health coaches. QUIT-Mobile tests the addition of mobile phone self-monitoring, automated feedback, and coach monitoring dashboard to enhance and sustain QUIT\'s drug use reductions using mobile-web app, text-messaging (SMS), or interactive voice response (IVR).

Official Title

mHealth to Enhance & Sustain Drug Use Reduction of the QUIT BI in Primary Care

Quick Facts

Study Start:2021-06-01
Study Completion:2026-03-31
Study Type:Not specified
Phase:Not Applicable
Enrollment:Not specified
Status:ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Study ID

NCT04935606

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Ages Eligible for Study:18 Years
Sexes Eligible for Study:ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:Yes
Standard Ages:ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Inclusion CriteriaExclusion Criteria
  1. * Patients 18 years old and older receiving care at study clinics.
  2. * Have a phone number at which they can be contacted over time during the study (to conduct follow-up health education phone calls).
  3. * Have a primary care visit with a regular clinic provider on the date of recruitment and enrollment.
  4. * English or Spanish-speaking.
  5. * ASSIST score between 4 and 26 indicating risky (moderate) drug use, and used the substance in the past 30 days.
  6. * Able (not cognitively impaired) and willing to cooperate with data collection and research procedures, including and 2-week, 6-week, and 3, 6, 12-month follow-up assessments.
  7. * Planning to be in the Los Angeles area for the next 12 months so they can complete the study period.
  1. * Pregnancy: Women who report being pregnant at the time of randomization will be excluded from participation. This latter exclusion criterion is based on the following reasons: (a) The interaction of drug use (in any amount) and fetal-maternal health is physiologically complex and beyond the scope of this proposed intervention. (b) Drug users who are pregnant are considered high-risk pregnancies.
  2. * Repeaters: All patients will be asked a set of repeater questions. This includes a question on whether they have ever been involved in our UCLA study at the clinic before. We will create a unique identifier based on a set of questions that we have used in our prior studies that combines aspects about the potential subject (mother's first name, father's first name, month and day of birth) that will screen them out if they screen again in the future.
  3. * ASSIST Score above 26 indicating high use and potential serious SUD needing referral to specialty treatment: The RA will receive a message that the subject scored 27+ on alcohol or any drugs on the WHO ASSIST (i.e. indication of possible severe substance use disorder). The RA will inform the patient that they are at risk for certain health behaviors and ask the patient if they want to disclose this information to their doctor. If they agree to disclose information to their doctor then we will fill out a letter informing the doctor of patient's potential more serious substance use disorder. We will also provide the patient with a list of local substance use disorder treatment referrals.
  4. * ASSIST Score below 4 (low use): These patients are not eligible for enrollment in the trial.
  5. * Subject Enrolled in a Substance Use Treatment Program: Subjects enrolled in a treatment program are excluded from the study.

Contacts and Locations

Principal Investigator

Lillian Gelberg, MD, MSPH
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of California, Los Angeles
Dallas Swendeman, PhD, MPH
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of California, Los Angeles

Study Locations (Sites)

The Children's Clinic (TCC) Family Health
Long Beach, California, 90806
United States
South Central Family Health Clinic
Los Angeles, California, 90011
United States
Wesley Health Centers
Los Angeles, California, 90013
United States
Saban Community Clinic
Los Angeles, California, 90038
United States
UMMA Community Clinic
Los Angeles, California, 90044
United States

Collaborators and Investigators

Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles

  • Lillian Gelberg, MD, MSPH, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Dallas Swendeman, PhD, MPH, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of California, Los Angeles

Study Record Dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Registration Dates

Study Start Date2021-06-01
Study Completion Date2026-03-31

Study Record Updates

Study Start Date2021-06-01
Study Completion Date2026-03-31

Terms related to this study

Keywords Provided by Researchers

  • risky drug use
  • mobile phone
  • self-monitoring
  • automated feedback
  • SBIRT

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

  • Drug Use