Evaluating the Effectiveness of Implementation Intentions to Strengthen Approach-avoidance Training
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Approach Bias Modification with Implementation Intentions.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Alcohol Use Disorder. Basic parameters: No limits · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- France
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Implementation Intentions to Strengthen Approach-avoidance Training : Pilot Study on Alcohol Use Disorder
Overview
Approach Bias Modifcation corresponds to computerized interventions designed to change a cognitive bias (i.e., the approach bias) that may contribute to the maintenance of Alcohol Use Disorder. This study aims to compare the effectiveness of a classical Approach Bias Modification program, an Approach Bias Modification program integrating a planning strategy (i.e., implementation intentions) and a Sham-training to decrease the approach bias (from pre to post-test), and Alcohol Use Disorder symptomatology (from baseline to follow-up). 112 patients will be recruited for this study.
Detailed description
The Approach Bias is considered to be a maintenance factor of Alcohol Use Disorder. It correspond to the relative ease to approach alcohol rather than to avoid it. Approach Bias Modifcation correspond to computerized interventiond designed to change it by training participants to emit avoidance response (e.g., pull the joystick away) toward alcohol stimuli (e.g., alcohol pictures). Those programs have shown their effectiveness to promote abstinence among Alcohol Use Disorder patients. This study aims to compare the effectiveness of a classical Approach Bias Modification program to the one of a similar program integrating a planning add-on strategy named implementation intentions and to a Sham-training. 112 patients will be recruited for this study at Clinic de la Mitterie rehab center. During their hospitalization, participants will have to complete: a baseline that assess Alcohol Use Disorder symptomatology (i.e., alcohol consumption, alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related consequences) and other alcohol-related variables (e.g., motivation and self-efficacy), a pre-test that assess the approach bias, 6 sessions of one of the three experimental interventions {classical Approach Bias Modification, Approach Bias Modification with Implementation Intentions, Sham-training}, and a post-test that reassess the approach bias. After their hospitalization, they will have to complete a 2, 4 and 6-month online follow-up that reasses Alcohol Use Disorder symptomatology. It is expect that the Approach Bias Modification program with implementation intentions will decrease the approach bias and Alcohol Use Disorder symptomatology more than the classical program, that will also decrease it more than the Sham-training.
Interventions
- Behavioral Approach Bias Modification with Implementation Intentions
Participants in each experimental condition will perform different variants of the Approach-Avoidance Task (i.e., a task that is widely used in the litterature to assess and modify the approach bias toward alcohol - the relative ease to approach alcohol rather than to avoid it). Participants in the classical Approach Bias Modification conditions will perform a version of this task which will train them to (almost-)systematically emit an avoidance response toward alcohol ; Participants in the App
Primary outcome measures
- Approach-Avoidance Task (AAT) [Time frame: 2 weeks]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Alcohol consumption [Time frame: 2 weeks]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- care at the clinic for Alcohol Use Disorder,
- have an e-mail address,
- written and spoken French,
- signing informed consent.
Exclusion criteria
- not currently remissioned for the Alcohol Use Disorder,
- no other Substance Use Disorder (except tobaco one)
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Other
Study locations
France · 1 center
- Clinique la Mitterie — Lille
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06211959 · 2020-A02415-34