Project Health Link: Connecting Patients With Services
Alcohol Abuse
About this trial
This is an interventional health services research trial for Alcohol Abuse
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: (1) adults age 19 - 60 presenting to the Emergency Department at Hurley Medical Center within 24 hours of an injury; (2) ability to provide informed consent. For intervention portion of the project: (1) meets DSM-IV criteria for alcohol abuse or dependence in the following year. (Patients who meet abuse/dependence criteria for alcohol may also be using other drugs. They will be included in the study only if they do not meet criteria for past year drug abuse/dependence). Exclusion Criteria: (1) adult patients who do not understand English; (2) prisoners; (3) pregnant women; (4) institutionalized patients (e.g. nursing home residents); (5) adults classified by medical staff as "Level 1 trauma"; (6) adults deemed unable to provide informed consent (e.g. intoxication, mental incompetence, under guardianship); (7) patients treated in the ED for suicide attempts and sexual assault; (8) patients meeting past year drug abuse/dependence criteria; and (9) patients who have been in treatment for alcohol or other drug abuse/dependence in the previous year.
Sites / Locations
- Hurley Medical Center
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Active Comparator
Active Comparator
Active Comparator
Strengths Based Case Management Model (SBCM)
Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET)
Brief Informational Feedback (BIF) session
The Strengths Based Case Management Model (SBCM) consists of 5 case-management sessions designed to promote linkage and engagement in assessment and treatment services, while assisting with the patient's perceived needs, as well as personal strengths and barriers to linkage and engagement.
The MET therapist will conduct 2 motivational enhancement sessions to work through the content of an educational workbook targeting the participant's alcohol use/abuse with the goal of negotiating a 'contract' to: 1) link to services, with the eventual goal of seeking and receiving specialized alcohol treatment; or 2) provide a strategy to self-monitor alcohol use, consider consequences, and later seek assessment.
Subjects will receive brief informational feedback on the results of their alcohol screening and assessment and encouragement to seek treatment.