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Cocaine DependenceETDDNCT00685659

Effectiveness of Extended Treatments for Drug Dependence

A study testing Intensive Outpatient Treatment, Adaptive telephone-based counseling and Adaptive telephone-based counseling plus incentives in people with Cocaine Dependence, run by University of Pennsylvania at 2 sites in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

This study tests the effectiveness of two 24 month, telephone-based adaptive continuing care interventions for patients with cocaine dependence. The two interventions are predicted to produce better drug use outcomes than standard care. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 75 years
Conditions the study is for
Cocaine Dependence
What is being tested?
Intensive Outpatient Treatment, Adaptive telephone-based counseling and Adaptive telephone-based counseling plus incentives
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
332 participants
Where
2 sitesUnited States
Study dates
May 2007to Dec 2011
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 to 75 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • qualify for a DSM-IV lifetime diagnosis of cocaine dependence and cocaine use in 6 months prior to treatment;
  • initial engagement in IOP, as indicated by attendance at 4 or more sessions in the first two weeks of treatment;
  • 18 to 75 years of age;
  • willingness to be randomized and participate in research.
  • metropolitan area residents;
  • able to provide the name, verified telephone number, and address of at least one contact who can provide locator information on the patient during follow-up.

Who cannot join

  • current psychotic disorder or evidence of dementia severe enough to prevent participation in outpatient treatment;
  • acute medical problem requiring immediate inpatient treatment;
  • current participation in methadone or other forms of DA treatment, other than IOP

Trial locations and contacts

2 sites in 1 country.

United States2 sites
  • Presbyterian Hospital

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104

  • NorthEast Treatment Centers

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19123

Other trials in United States

About this study

This study tests the effectiveness of two 24 month, telephone-based adaptive continuing care interventions for patients with cocaine dependence. The two interventions are predicted to produce better drug use outcomes than standard care. Furthermore, the intervention that also includes monetary incentives for continued participation is hypothesized to produce better retention and drug use outcomes than the intervention without incentives. Economic analyses will determine the cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost of the interventions relative to standard care, and to each other.

Read the detailed description

There is considerable evidence that treatment for drug use disorders can lead to substantial improvements in substance use and psychosocial problem severity. However, a significant percentage of patients relapse to problematic levels of substance use after primary treatment, and require additional treatment episodes. Patients are therefore frequently referred to continuing care programs to prevent relapse and decrease the probability of additional rehabilitation treatments. However, current models of continuing care may not be adequate for the long-term management of a chronic, relapsing disorder such as substance dependence. One possible approach for improving the management of drug dependence is adaptive treatment regimes, which combine low intensity monitoring and counseling when patients are doing well with stepped care protocols to increase the intensity of treatment when warranted by deteriorations in status and functioning. However, addiction management protocols may require incentives and other features to make long-term participation more appealing.

Cocaine dependent patients who have completed 2 weeks of intensive outpatient treatment (IOP) will be randomly assigned to one of the following interventions: (1) continued participation in IOP without additional intervention (TAU); (2) TAU plus an adaptive protocol that includes monitoring, feedback, and brief counseling via telephone on a tapered schedule out to 24 months, and more intensive face-to-face treatment when warranted (TMAC); or (3) TAU and the adaptive protocol, plus incentives for sustained participation (TMAC-Plus). Patients will be followed up at 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, and 24 months post intake into the study. Follow-up assessments will include measures of drug use, treatment process and potential mediating factors, psychosocial problem severity, utilization of health and social services, and costs.

The two adaptive extended interventions (TMAC and TMAC-Plus) are predicted to produce better drug use outcomes than TAU. TMAC-Plus is hypothesized to produce better retention and drug use outcomes than TMAC. Economic analyses will determine the cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost of TMAC and TMF-Plus relative to TAU, and to each other. Other analyses will test mediation hypotheses, examine potential moderator effects, and test the impact of disease management on HIV risk behaviors.

Being tested
Intensive Outpatient Treatment, Adaptive telephone-based counseling, Adaptive telephone-based counseling plus incentives
Keywords
cocaine dependence, treatment, continuing care, outcomes, incentives, adaptive
Medical subject headings
Cocaine-Related Disorders

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Intensive Outpatient TreatmentOther

    9 hours of group counseling per week for 2-3 months

  • Adaptive telephone-based counselingOther

    In addition to IOP, patients receive telephone counseling calls, in which risk level is assessed and coping skills intervention delivered to address risk areas. Adaptive stepped care algorithm is included

  • Adaptive telephone-based counseling plus incentivesOther

    In addition to IOP, patients receive telephone counseling calls, in which risk level is assessed and coping skills intervention delivered to address risk areas. Adaptive stepped care algorithm and monetary incentives for participation are included

Study groups in NCT00685659
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
TAU onlyActive comparatorControl condition that consists of treatment as usual, which is Intensive Outpatient Treatment (about 3 months long)
Receives: Other: Intensive Outpatient Treatment
TMAC onlyExperimentalAdaptive telephone-based counseling
Receives: Other: Adaptive telephone-based counseling
TMAC plusExperimentalAdaptive telephone-based counseling, plus incentives
Receives: Other: Adaptive telephone-based counseling plus incentives

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Abstinence

    Abstinence as reported on Addiction Severity Index, Timeline Follow up, and as tested on the urine drug screen. Measure was created as such: if on ASI the participant reported no use, and on the TLFB the participant reported no use, and on the urine drug screen there was no substances detected, then the participant is considered abstinent. If there is use indicated on any one or all of those items (ASI, TLFB, UDS) then the participant is not abstinent.

    Measured: 3 month follow up

  2. Abstinence

    Abstinence as reported on Addiction Severity Index, Timeline Follow up, and as tested on the urine drug screen. Measure was created as such: if on ASI the participant reported no use, and on the TLFB the participant reported no use, and on the urine drug screen there was no substances detected, then the participant is considered abstinent. If there is use indicated on any one or all of those items (ASI, TLFB, UDS) then the participant is not abstinent.

    Measured: 6 month follow up

  3. Abstinence

    Abstinence as reported on Addiction Severity Index, Timeline Follow up, and as tested on the urine drug screen. Measure was created as such: if on ASI the participant reported no use, and on the TLFB the participant reported no use, and on the urine drug screen there was no substances detected, then the participant is considered abstinent. If there is use indicated on any one or all of those items (ASI, TLFB, UDS) then the participant is not abstinent.

    Measured: 9 month follow up

  4. Abstinence

    Abstinence as reported on Addiction Severity Index, Timeline Follow up, and as tested on the urine drug screen. Measure was created as such: if on ASI the participant reported no use, and on the TLFB the participant reported no use, and on the urine drug screen there was no substances detected, then the participant is considered abstinent. If there is use indicated on any one or all of those items (ASI, TLFB, UDS) then the participant is not abstinent.

    Measured: 12 month follow up

  5. Abstinence

    Abstinence as reported on Addiction Severity Index, Timeline Follow up, and as tested on the urine drug screen. Measure was created as such: if on ASI the participant reported no use, and on the TLFB the participant reported no use, and on the urine drug screen there was no substances detected, then the participant is considered abstinent. If there is use indicated on any one or all of those items (ASI, TLFB, UDS) then the participant is not abstinent.

    Measured: 18 month follow up

  6. Abstinence

    Abstinence as reported on Addiction Severity Index, Timeline Follow up, and as tested on the urine drug screen. Measure was created as such: if on ASI the participant reported no use, and on the TLFB the participant reported no use, and on the urine drug screen there was no substances detected, then the participant is considered abstinent. If there is use indicated on any one or all of those items (ASI, TLFB, UDS) then the participant is not abstinent.

    Measured: 24 month follow up

  7. Cocaine Urine Toxicology

    Positive cocaine test of urine

    Measured: 3 month follow up

  8. Cocaine Urine Toxicology

    Positive cocaine test of urine

    Measured: 6 month follow up

  9. Cocaine Urine Toxicology

    Positive cocaine test of urine

    Measured: 9 month follow up

  10. Cocaine Urine Toxicology

    Positive cocaine test of urine

    Measured: 12 month follow up

  11. Cocaine Urine Toxicology

    Positive cocaine test of urine

    Measured: 18 month follow up

  12. Cocaine Urine Toxicology

    Positive cocaine test of urine

    Measured: 24 month follow up

  13. Comparison Across Groups in Societal Costs

    Total savings/spending calculated as the monetary value of days of illegal activity, days experiencing medical problems, days experiencing psychiatric problems, and days in jail captured with the ASI. Presented in 2008 dollars.

    Measured: 24 months

  14. Net Saving/Spending Comparisons Across Groups From Provider Perspective

    Savings minus intervention costs. Presented in 2008 dollars.

    Measured: 24 months

  15. Net Comparisons of Savings and Spendings Across Groups From Societal Perspective

    Savings minus intervention costs. Presented in 2008 dollars.

    Measured: 24 months

  16. Percent Days Cocaine Use

    Percent of days during the follow up that there was any cocaine use

    Measured: 3 months (approximately study days 1 - 90)

  17. Percent Days Cocaine Use

    Percent of days during the follow up that there was any cocaine use

    Measured: 6 months (approproximately study days 91 - 180)

  18. Percent Days Cocaine Use

    Percent of days during the follow up that there was any cocaine use

    Measured: 9 months (approximately study days 181 - 270)

  19. Percent Days Cocaine Use

    Percent of days during the follow up that there was any cocaine use

    Measured: 12 months (approximately study days 271 - 365)

  20. Percent Days Cocaine Use

    Percent of days during the follow up that there was any cocaine use

    Measured: 18 months (approximately study days 366 - 546)

  21. Percent Days Cocaine Use

    Percent of days during the follow up that there was any cocaine use

    Measured: 24 months (approximately study days 547 - 730)

  22. Percent Days Abstinent

    Percent of days during the follow up that participant was abstinent from Alcohol and Cocaine

    Measured: 3 months (approximately study days 1 - 90)

  23. Percent Days Abstinent

    Percent of days during the follow up that participant was abstinent from Alcohol and Cocaine

    Measured: 6 months (approximately study days 91 - 180)

  24. Percent Days Abstinent

    Percent of days during the follow up that participant was abstinent from Alcohol and Cocaine

    Measured: 9 months (approximately study days 181 - 270)

  25. Percent Days Abstinent

    Percent of days during the follow up that participant was abstinent from Alcohol and Cocaine

    Measured: 12 months (approximately study days 271 - 365)

  26. Percent Days Abstinent

    Percent of days during the follow up that participant was abstinent from Alcohol and Cocaine

    Measured: 18 months (approximately days 366 - 546)

  27. Percent Days Abstinent

    Percent of days during the follow up that participant was abstinent from Alcohol and Cocaine

    Measured: 24 months (approximately study days 547 - 730)

Secondary outcomes (3)
  1. Participation in Protocol

    Percent available sessions completed

    Measured: 24 months

  2. HIV Sex Risk Score

    Risk score from RAB: Risk Assessment Battery. The RAB is a 41 - item self report developed to study the transmission of HIV. The Risk Assessment Battery generates a drug-risk score and a sex-risk score. For this study, the sex-risk score was used as the outcome measure of sexual behavior that is associated with HIV transmission. The sex-risk score ranges from 0 to 18, with 0 denoting no sex-risk and 18 denoting highest sex-risk. Previous research among drug using populations have found a sex-risk score mean of 6.2.

    Measured: 12 months

  3. HIV Sex Risk Score

    Risk score from RAB: Risk Assessment Battery. The RAB is a 41 - item self report developed to study the transmission of HIV. The Risk Assessment Battery generates a drug-risk score and a sex-risk score. For this study, the sex-risk score was used as the outcome measure of sexual behavior that is associated with HIV transmission. The sex-risk score ranges from 0 to 18, with 0 denoting no sex-risk and 18 denoting highest sex-risk. Previous research among drug using populations have found a sex-risk score mean of 6.2.

    Measured: 24 months

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted28 May 2008 (estimated)
  2. Study startMay 2007
  3. Primary completionDec 2011
  4. Study completionDec 2011

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
332 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT00685659
Sponsor's protocol ID
R01DA020623
Other IDs
R01DA020623
Acronym
ETDD
Status last verified
Jun 2017
First submitted
23 May 2008
Last updated
7 Aug 2017
Data monitoring committee
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • McKay JR, Van Horn DH, Lynch KG, Ivey M, Cary MS, Drapkin ML, Coviello DM, Plebani JG. An adaptive approach for identifying cocaine dependent patients who benefit from extended continuing care. J Consult Clin Psychol. 2013 Dec;81(6):1063-73. doi: 10.1037/a0034265. Epub 2013 Sep 16.

    PubMed 24041231
  • McKay JR, Van Horn DH, Lynch KG, Ivey M, Cary MS, Drapkin M, Coviello D. Who benefits from extended continuing care for cocaine dependence? Addict Behav. 2014 Mar;39(3):660-8. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.11.019. Epub 2013 Dec 1.

    PubMed 24355401
  • McKay JR, Van Horn D, Rennert L, Drapkin M, Ivey M, Koppenhaver J. Factors in sustained recovery from cocaine dependence. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2013 Aug;45(2):163-72. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2013.02.007. Epub 2013 Apr 2.

    PubMed 23561331
  • Van Horn DH, Drapkin M, Ivey M, Thomas T, Domis SW, Abdalla O, Herd D, McKay JR. Voucher incentives increase treatment participation in telephone-based continuing care for cocaine dependence. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2011 Apr 1;114(2-3):225-8. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2010.09.007. Epub 2010 Nov 1.

    PubMed 21041041
  • Wimberly AS, Ivey M, Rennert L, McKay JR. Effect of Continuing Care for Cocaine Dependence on HIV Sex-Risk Behaviors. AIDS Behav. 2017 Apr;21(4):1082-1090. doi: 10.1007/s10461-016-1434-6.

    PubMed 27224980
  • McCollister K, Yang X, McKay JR. Cost-effectiveness analysis of a continuing care intervention for cocaine-dependent adults. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2016 Jan 1;158:38-44. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2015.10.032. Epub 2015 Nov 12.

    PubMed 26621551

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Intensive Outpatient Treatment, Adaptive telephone-based counseling and Adaptive telephone-based counseling plus incentives in people with Cocaine Dependence, run by University of Pennsylvania at 2 sites in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 6 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 7 Aug 2017. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 2 sites in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 14 Dec 2016). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Abstinence (time frame: 3 month follow up). The study lists 27 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT00685659, which also lists 6 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 7 Aug 2017.

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