Techniques for Activating Consciousness (TAC) for Outpatients With Moderate to Severe Alcohol Addiction
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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: TAC intervention.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Alcohol Addiction. Basic parameters: from 18 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
- 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
Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy of Hypnosis and Learning Self-exercises for Outpatients With Moderate to Severe Alcohol Addiction
Overview
Many patients are considering the use of so-called "hypnosis" treatments in the field of addictions. However, these techniques lack sufficient levels of evidence with regard to the standards required by Evidence-Based Medicine. In other domains, however, hypnosis has demonstrated an interesting level of evidence, particularly in pain management. The investigators will focus on the "Techniques for Activating Consciousness" (TAC), which represent an optimized therapeutic approach derived from hypnotic therapy.
Interventions
- Behavioral TAC intervention
Patients receiving TAC (Techniques for Activating Consciousness) intervention in addition to standard care
Primary outcome measures
- The patient's ability to control alcohol consumption during outpatient follow-up in a CSAPA [Time frame: 6 months]
Secondary outcome measures (2)
- Controlling addictive behavior in both groups [Time frame: 12 months]
- Evaluation criteria for the TAC group [Time frame: 12 months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Adult patients consulting for an alcohol-related addiction problem at the CSAPA of Versailles (sites in Versailles, Trappes, Rambouillet) or at the Centre Hospitalier des 4 Villes (day hospital or CSAPA in Sèvres)
- Patients must meet at least 4 of the 11 DSM-5 criteria (Annex 2), corresponding to moderate to severe addiction
- Patients must be affiliated with the French social security system
Exclusion criteria
- Refusal to participate
- Decompensated psychiatric pathology contraindicating therapy:
- Presence at inclusion of delusional, dissociative, and/or persecutory symptoms
- Presence at inclusion of hypomanic or manic decompensation
- Severe cognitive impairment, evidenced by inability to perform the clock-drawing test (draw the clock face, place the numbers, and set the hands to 11:10)
- Adults legally protected under French law (deprivation of liberty, legal safeguard, guardianship, curatorship)
- Inability to understand French
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
- Supportive care
Study locations
France · 2 centers
- Hospital Versailles — Le Chesnay
- CH des 4 Villes — Sèvres
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07369245 · P23/03 - TAC-ADDICT