Alcohol; Harmful UseLDARTNCT06022107
Social Support Intervention for Addiction Recovery
A study testing LDART in people with Alcohol; Harmful Use and Alcohol, run by Yale University at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
The purpose of this research study is to determine whether using a web-based intervention is feasible, acceptable, and helpful for people who engage in hazardous alcohol use and want to cut down or quit. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and older
- Conditions the study is for
- Alcohol; Harmful Use, Alcohol
- What is being tested?
- LDART
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 30 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- 26 Jan 2024to 15 Jul 2024
- 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 years and older
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- 18 years of age or older
- Is at the time of study participation residing in Connecticut, USA
- Is fluent in English and has a 6th grade reading level or higher
- Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) score of ≥8
- Has had at least one heavy drinking day in the past month
- Has some desire to cut down or quit their alcohol use
- Has a smartphone or computer with access to internet
Who cannot join
- Has vulnerable population status (e.g., pregnant people, prisoners)
- Is at the time of study participation receiving in-patient psychiatric treatment involving hospitalization
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
About this study
Official title: Piloting a Novel Social Support Intervention for Addiction Recovery
The purpose of this research study is to determine whether using a web-based intervention is feasible, acceptable, and helpful for people who engage in hazardous alcohol use and want to cut down or quit.
Read the detailed description
This pilot study will determine the feasibility and acceptability of a novel online social support intervention (Let's Do Addiction Recovery Together!, abbreviated as LDART) that uses pre-recorded videos created by members of recovery support services to help individuals in early recovery from hazardous alcohol use sustain motivation during recovery and introduce them to freely available recovery support services in the community. The investigators will recruit participants to use the web-based intervention daily for a month; they will also fill in questionnaires about their substance use and engagement with recovery support services at the beginning and end of the study to determine preliminary efficacy.
- Conditions
- Alcohol; Harmful Use, Alcohol
- Being tested
- LDART
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
LDARTBehavioural
LDART is a newly developed web-based social support intervention that can be accessed by smartphone or computer. Each night, the participant sets a recovery goal for the next day (e.g., drink less than usual, go to a support group meeting). The next night, they log on to LDART to indicate whether they reached their goal for the day. Depending on their response, they will be shown either a celebratory or encouraging message from someone in the addiction recovery community, along with specific information on that person's recovery organization.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| LDART | Experimental | Participants will be asked to log onto the LDART website each night for a month. Receives: Behavioral: LDART |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Recruitment Feasibility
Feasibility of recruitment is measured as the number of adults who consent to study participation divided by the number of months the trial recruits for.
Measured: Baseline
Retention Feasibility
Retention rate is calculated as the number of participants who complete the study divided by the number of participants who consented to participating in the study.
Measured: One-month post-intervention (Day 56)
Intervention Acceptability (Engagement With Intervention)
Acceptability is calculated as the number of nights participants login to LDART within the 28-day window.
Measured: Duration of intervention (Days 1-28)
Intervention Acceptability (Subjective Experience)
Acceptability is measured with a 9-item self-report acceptability assessment questionnaire. This comprises questions regarding the motivational and supportive properties of the content, perceptions on the frequency of engaging with the intervention, and whether they enjoyed using the intervention. Each question is rated on a 5-point Likert scale, where higher values indicate greater acceptability. There will also be two open-ended questions for participants to indicate what they liked and did not like about the intervention and ways to improve it. Data reported here reflects percentage of participants who answered "agree" or "strongly agree" to the question: "I would recommend LDART to someone trying to cut down or quit drinking".
Measured: Post-intervention (Day 28)
Secondary outcomes (5)
Percentage of Drinking Days Per Month
Timeline Follow Back is a validated, self-reported instrument that provides specific dates for alcohol use in the past 28 days, and the number of standard drinks consumed on each drinking day. Percent Drinking Days Per Month is calculated as the percentage of days in the 28-day window in which one or more standard drinks is consumed for two consecutive windows.
Measured: Day 0 (Pre-intervention), 28 (Post-intervention), and 56 (1-month post-intervention)
Percentage of Heavy Drinking Days Per Month
Percent Heavy Drinking Days is calculated from the Timeline Follow Back instrument as the number of days in the 28-day window in which four/five or more standard drinks is consumed for women/men for two consecutive windows.
Measured: Day 0 (Pre-intervention), 28 (Post-intervention), and 56 (1-month post-intervention)
Hours Spent Engaging With Recovery Support Services
Self-reported total number of hours spent engaging in recovery support services (e.g., being at a recovery community center, attending a support group meeting) in the past 28-day time window for two consecutive windows.
Measured: Day 0 (Pre-intervention), 28 (Post-intervention), and 56 (1-month post-intervention)
World Health Organization Quality of Life - Brief Version
World Health Organization Quality of Life - Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF) is a questionnaire with 24 items that correspond to four domains: physical health, psychological health, social relationships, and environment. Each question is rated on a five-point Likert scale. Each domain score is transformed based on the lowest possible score to create a modified range of 0-100 for each domain. All four domain scores are then averaged to create a single score on a range of 0-100, where higher values indicate higher quality of life.
Measured: Day 0 (Pre-intervention), 28 (Post-intervention), and 56 (1-month post-intervention)
Brief Assessment of Recovery Capital
Brief Assessment of Recovery Capital (BARC) is a 10-item self-report measure of recovery capital with ten domains (substance use and sobriety, global psychological health, global physical health, citizenship and community involvement, social support, meaningful activities, housing and safety, risk-taking, coping and life functioning, recovery experience). Total score ranges from 0-50, where higher values indicate higher recovery capital.
Measured: Day 0 (Pre-intervention), 28 (Post-intervention), and 56 (1-month post-intervention)
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted1 Sep 2023
- Study start26 Jan 2024
- Primary completion15 Jul 2024
- Study completion15 Jul 2024
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Posted resultsParticipant flow, outcome measures and adverse events reported by the sponsor.
- Publications (1)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for Alcohol; Harmful UseStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by Yale UniversityThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
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
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 30 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Yale University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Society of Addiction Psychology
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Marc N Potenza, MD, PhD, Principal investigator, Yale UniversityLi Yan McCurdy, PhD, Principal investigator, Yale University
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06022107
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 2000035434
- Other IDs
- 000
- Acronym
- LDART
- Status last verified
- Oct 2025
- First submitted
- 23 Aug 2023
- Last updated
- 5 Nov 2025
- Results posted
- Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Publications
McCurdy LY, Kong G, Krishnan-Sarin S, Kiluk BD, Potenza MN. A non-randomized pilot study protocol of a novel social support intervention for individuals in early recovery from hazardous alcohol use. PLoS One. 2023 Oct 5;18(10):e0292293. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292293. eCollection 2023.
PubMed 37796784
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 5 Nov 2025. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Piloting a Novel Social Support Intervention for Addiction Recovery
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06022107
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- LDART / 2000035434
- Conditions
- Alcohol; Harmful Use, Alcohol
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 30 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Yale UniversityUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Society of Addiction Psychology
- Study start
- 26 Jan 2024 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 15 Jul 2024 (actual)
- Study completion
- 15 Jul 2024 (actual)
- First posted
- 1 Sep 2023 (actual)
- Results
- Posted 5 Nov 2025
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The purpose of this research study is to determine whether using a web-based intervention is feasible, acceptable, and helpful for people who engage in hazardous alcohol use and want to cut down or quit.
Detailed description
This pilot study will determine the feasibility and acceptability of a novel online social support intervention (Let's Do Addiction Recovery Together!, abbreviated as LDART) that uses pre-recorded videos created by members of recovery support services to help individuals in early recovery from hazardous alcohol use sustain motivation during recovery and introduce them to freely available recovery support services in the community. The investigators will recruit participants to use the web-based intervention daily for a month; they will also fill in questionnaires about their substance use and engagement with recovery support services at the beginning and end of the study to determine preliminary efficacy.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 1
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| LDART | Experimental | Behavioral: LDARTParticipants will be asked to log onto the LDART website each night for a month. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (7 listed)
- 18 years of age or older
- Is at the time of study participation residing in Connecticut, USA
- Is fluent in English and has a 6th grade reading level or higher
- Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) score of ≥8
- Has had at least one heavy drinking day in the past month
Key exclusion criteria (2 listed)
- Has vulnerable population status (e.g., pregnant people, prisoners)
- Is at the time of study participation receiving in-patient psychiatric treatment involving hospitalization
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| LDARTLDART is a newly developed web-based social support intervention that can be accessed by smartphone or computer. Each night, the participant sets a recovery goal for the next day (e.g., drink less than usual, go to a support group meeting). The next night, they log on to LDART to indicate whether they reached their goal for the day. Depending on their response, they will be shown either a celebratory or encouraging message from someone in the addiction recovery community, along with specific information on that person's recovery organization. | Behavioural | LDART |
Primary outcome
Recruitment Feasibility
Time frame: Baseline
Feasibility of recruitment is measured as the number of adults who consent to study participation divided by the number of months the trial recruits for.
Retention Feasibility
Time frame: One-month post-intervention (Day 56)
Retention rate is calculated as the number of participants who complete the study divided by the number of participants who consented to participating in the study.
Intervention Acceptability (Engagement With Intervention)
Time frame: Duration of intervention (Days 1-28)
Acceptability is calculated as the number of nights participants login to LDART within the 28-day window.
Intervention Acceptability (Subjective Experience)
Time frame: Post-intervention (Day 28)
Acceptability is measured with a 9-item self-report acceptability assessment questionnaire. This comprises questions regarding the motivational and supportive properties of the content, perceptions on the frequency of engaging with the intervention, and whether they enjoyed using the intervention. Each question is rated on a 5-point Likert scale, where higher values indicate greater acceptability. There will also be two open-ended questions for participants to indicate what they liked and did not like about the intervention and ways to improve it. Data reported here reflects percentage of participants who answered "agree" or "strongly agree" to the question: "I would recommend LDART to someone trying to cut down or quit drinking".
5 secondary outcomes
Percentage of Drinking Days Per Month
Time frame: Day 0 (Pre-intervention), 28 (Post-intervention), and 56 (1-month post-intervention)
Percentage of Heavy Drinking Days Per Month
Time frame: Day 0 (Pre-intervention), 28 (Post-intervention), and 56 (1-month post-intervention)
Hours Spent Engaging With Recovery Support Services
Time frame: Day 0 (Pre-intervention), 28 (Post-intervention), and 56 (1-month post-intervention)
World Health Organization Quality of Life - Brief Version
Time frame: Day 0 (Pre-intervention), 28 (Post-intervention), and 56 (1-month post-intervention)
Brief Assessment of Recovery Capital
Time frame: Day 0 (Pre-intervention), 28 (Post-intervention), and 56 (1-month post-intervention)
Results and safety
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Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 5 Nov 2025.
- Posted resultsParticipant flow, baseline, all outcome measures and adverse events.
- Derived from this study: PubMed 37796784McCurdy LY, Kong G, Krishnan-Sarin S, Kiluk BD, Potenza MN. A non-randomized pilot study protocol of a novel social support intervention for individuals in early recovery from hazardous alcohol use. PLoS One. 2023 Oct 5;18(10):e0292293. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292293. eCollection 2023.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Marc N Potenza, MD, PhD principal investigator
Yale University
Li Yan McCurdy, PhD principal investigator
Yale University
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing LDART in people with Alcohol; Harmful Use and Alcohol, run by Yale University at 1 site 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 7 inclusion and 2 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 5 Nov 2025. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site 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 5 Nov 2025). 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?
Recruitment Feasibility (time frame: Baseline). The study lists 4 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 NCT06022107, which also lists 1 linked publication.
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 5 Nov 2025; AzTrials last refreshed its copy on 3 Nov 2026.