Screening and Intervention Programme for Sensible drinking - Accident and Emergency Department

ISRCTN	ISRCTN93681536
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN93681536
Secondary identifying numbers	SIPS-AED

Submission date: 30/04/2007
Registration date: 08/06/2007
Last edited: 26/06/2014

Recruitment status: No longer recruiting
Overall study status: Completed
Condition category: Mental and Behavioural Disorders

Prospectively registered

Protocol

Statistical analysis plan

Results

Individual participant data

Plain English summary of protocol

Not provided at time of registration

Study website

Contact information

Prof Colin Drummond
Scientific

Section of Addictive Behaviour
Division of Mental Health
St George's University of London
Cranmer Terrace
London
SW17 0RE
United Kingdom

Study information

Study design	Cluster prospective randomised controlled trial
Primary study design	Interventional
Secondary study design	Randomised controlled trial
Study setting(s)	Hospital
Study type	Quality of life
Participant information sheet	Not available in web format, please use the contact details below to request a patient information sheet
Scientific title	A randomised controlled trial of different methods of alcohol screening and brief interventions in routine accident and emergency department care
Study acronym	SIPS (AED)
Study objectives	Brief intervention by an alcohol health worker for hazardous and harmful drinkers identified by targeted screening is more effective and cost effective than brief advice conducted by Accident and Emergency Department (AED) staff in the typical AED setting. As of 11/03/2009 this record was updated to include an extended anticipated end date; the initial end date at the time of registration was 31/12/2008. At this time, the sponsor field was also updated to include the current sponsor of Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London (UK). The initial sponsor at the time of registration was St George's University of London (UK).
Ethics approval(s)	London Local Research Ethic Committee (LREC), 05/04/2007, ref: 07/MRE02/6
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied	Alcohol use disorders/accident and emergency
Intervention	1. Control condition: AED staff in the control condition will be trained to apply the appropriate screening method and record the screening outcome, will feedback the result of screening to patients and offer them a Patient Information Leaflet (PIL). The PIL is from the Drink-Less Programme and has been extensively pre-tested with clinicians and patients in PHC and will be used in this trial. The PIL will also contain a number for Drinkline where the patient can access further information. The PIL to be used in this trial will be Alcohol and Sensible Drinking as in the PHC study (trial details in http://www.controlled-trials.com/ISRCTN06145674/). 2. Simple structured advice condition: AED staff will be trained to carry out screening and deliver up to 5 minutes of brief advice for hazardous and harmful drinkers presenting to the AED, using the Drink-Less brief intervention materials (level 1) as in the PHC study. Patients in this condition will also receive a PIL as above, including a number for Drinkline. 3. Alcohol Health Worker condition: This is based on the St Marys Hospital model. AED staff will be trained to carry out universal alcohol screening and to refer hazardous and harmful drinkers identified by screening to an Alcohol Health Worker (AHW), by making an appointment usually the following day or as soon as possible after AED attendance. Before leaving the AED the patients in this condition will be given a PIL and Simple structured advice as above. The AHW will be experienced in carrying out alcohol assessment and brief interventions. The AHW will carry out a brief lifestyle counseling intervention lasting for 15-20 minutes as in the protocol for PHC lifestyle counseling intervention above (using the Drink-Less brief intervention materials [level 2]).
Intervention type	Other
Primary outcome measure	Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) at baseline and 6 months.
Secondary outcome measures	The following will be assessed at baseline and 6 months: 1. Alcohol Problems Questionnaire 2. EQ-5D questionnaire (quality of life assessment) 3. Service utilisation 4. Staff attitudinal and organisational measures
Overall study start date	01/04/2007
Completion date	30/06/2010

Eligibility

Participant type(s)	Patient
Age group	Adult
Lower age limit	18 Years
Sex	Both
Target number of participants	1179
Key inclusion criteria	1. AED patients 2. Scoring positive on the Paddington Alcohol Test (PAT), FAST or SASQ 3. Patients who are alert and orientated 4. Aged 18 or over, either sex 5. Able to speak English sufficiently well to complete study questionnaires
Key exclusion criteria	1. Already in contact with alcohol services 2. Those already included in the study 3. Those requesting help with alcohol problems at a tertiary level
Date of first enrolment	01/04/2007
Date of final enrolment	30/06/2010

Locations

Countries of recruitment

England
United Kingdom

Study participating centre

Section of Addictive Behaviour

London
SW17 0RE
United Kingdom

Sponsor information

Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London (UK)
University/education

4 Windsor Walk
London
SE5 8BB
England
United Kingdom

Email	paolo.deluca@iop.kcl.ac.uk
Website	http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk
"ROR"	https://ror.org/0220mzb33

Funders

Funder type

Government

Department of Health (UK) - part of an action under the governments Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy for England (2004)

No information available

Results and Publications

Intention to publish date
Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share	No
IPD sharing plan summary	Not provided at time of registration
Publication and dissemination plan	Not provided at time of registration
IPD sharing plan

Study outputs

Output type	Details	Date created	Date added	Peer reviewed?	Patient-facing?
Results article	results	25/06/2014		Yes	No