Motivating Treatment Seeking and Behavior Change by Untreated Military Personnel Abusing Alcohol or Drugs

Abstract

The WCU is a randomized clinical trial evaluating the novel adaptation of telephone delivered motivational enhancement therapy for an Army population. The intervention is designed to reach soldiers with untreated substance use disorders, engage them in a brief discussion about their substance use behaviors, and build motivation to change problematic behaviors, limit use, and/or engage in treatment or formalized self help. The trial will enroll 240 active-duty soldiers at Joint Base Lewis McChord (JBLM) and test the intervention against a matched-attention control of treatment as usual, administered in the form of non-personalized educational information. As of this report's submission (30 September 2013), the trial has enrolled 210 soldiers and is on track to reach the target enrollment numbers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1011675

Entities

People

  • Denise D. Walker

Organizations

  • University of Washington

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Drug Abuse
  • Employment
  • Families (Human)
  • Health Services
  • Human Behavior
  • Medical Personnel
  • Mental Disorders
  • Military Personnel
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychology
  • Recreation
  • Social Psychology
  • Societies
  • Traumatic Stress Disorder

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