Internet Based Cognitive Behavior Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorders (ICBT-AUD)
Alcohol Use Disorders
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Alcohol Use Disorders
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- ≥ 18 years
- access to the internet
- consumption of at least 9 (females)/14 (males) glasses of alcohol during the preceding week
- AUDIT ≥ 14 for females, ≥ 16 for men
- have an Alcohol Use Disorder according to the DSM-5 (i.e., at least 2 out of 11 criteria)
Exclusion Criteria:
- insufficient Swedish skills
- reading or writing difficulties, if it is to a degree that it will hamper the treatment
- concurrent other psychological treatment with a content resembling treatments in this study
- severe depression defined as a score of more than 30 on the MADRS-S
- suicide-risk defined as more than 4 points on the MADRS-S question 9, or based on the structured interview
- Drug use problems defined as ≥ 8 p on the DUDIT
- somatic or psychiatric disorders that are contraindicated for the treatment or impairs the ability to receive it (for example schizophrenia, bipolar disease, PTSD)
- has during the last 3 weeks begun medication for alcohol problems or other psychiatric disorder
Sites / Locations
- Karolinska Institutet
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Experimental
Active Comparator
Other
Extended self-help program with guidance
Briefer Self-help program, no guidance
WL: Extended self-help program, choice of guidance intensity
The program is a comprehensive CBT program lasting 12 weeks, with as many modules. The modules are quite extensive. A guide with basic education in psychotherapy assists and counsels participants online.
This self-help program also lasts 12 weeks but contains only 9 modules; a pause occurs during the final weeks of the program for self-testing of acquired skills. The modules are quite brief. Participants receive no guidance.
Participants will be put on a waiting list. After 12 weeks on the waiting list, participants will receive access the the extended self-help program used in the experimental arm. However, participants will be offered a choice between three guidance options of varying intensity: proactive guidance, reactive guidance (only at participant request) or no guidance.