Enhancing Prospective Thinking in Early Recovery (BEAM)
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: High-Intensity Cue, Low-Intensity Cue.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Alcohol Use Disorder. Basic parameters: 18 years — 60 years · 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
- United States
- 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
Enhancing Prospective Thinking in Early Recovery
Overview
The goal of this clinical trial is to test the prosocial effects of personally-relevant, high-intensity episodic future-thinking (EFT) cues in alcohol use disorder persons and related brain mechanisms. The main question\[s\] this trial aims to answer are: * Will high-intensity EFT cues will produce greater delayed reward preference than low-intensity cues? * Will high-intensity EFT cues effect greater treatment-seeking interest? * Will high-intensity EFT cues elicit greater response in regions for prospective thinking during delay discounting (vs. low-intensity) * Will nucleus accumbens-precuneus resting connectivity correlate with behavioral SS? * Will the novel behavioral SS decision-making task activate the nucleus accumbens? Researchers will compare the experimental (high-intensity group) and control (low-intensity) groups to see if there are differences in the results for the questions outlined above.
Interventions
- Behavioral High-Intensity Cue
Participants in the high-intensity group will receive high-intensity image cues that represent self-reported events they did on the previous day and self-reported events they look forward to in the future. - Behavioral Low-Intensity Cue
Participants in the low-intensity group will receive low-intensity image cues that represent self-reported events they did on the previous day and self-reported events they look forward to in the future.
Primary outcome measures
- Increase Prospective Thinking [Time frame: Study Day Visit (Day 1)]
- Delayed Rewards [Time frame: Study Day Visit (Day 1)]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Individuals who meet current heavy drinking (≥2 heavy drinking days/month OR ≥7 drinks/week for biological females, and ≥14 drinks/week if biological male \[NIAAA definition\] and/or AUDIT scores ≥8)
- English comprehension
Exclusion criteria
- Unstable medical disorders
- Outside the age range of 18-60
- Smell/taste disorders
- Unstable psychiatric conditions
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
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Indiana University School of Medicine - Goodman Hall — Indianapolis
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06283472 · 1805574553; Aims 14-16 · 2P60AA007611-403343 · 2P60AA007611