Alcohol and Employment

NCT ID: NCT01416103

Last Updated: 2015-02-19

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

113 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2011-10-31

Study Completion Date

2014-10-31

Brief Summary

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The purpose of the study is to determine whether welfare-to-work schemes combined with alcohol treatment are more efficient than a welfare-to-work scheme alone, for unemployed citizens with alcohol problems.

Detailed Description

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Background and purpose: The Tryg Foundation Denmark has awarded funds for a study that tests how to most efficiently combine welfare-to-work schemes with efforts against alcoholism, in relation to a return to the labour market.

The study will be carried out in a number of Danish municipalities in the time frame 2011-2014.

The purpose of the study is to determine whether a welfare-to-work scheme combined with alcohol treatment is more efficient than a welfare-to-work scheme alone, for unemployed citizens with alcohol problems.

Design: If the welfare recipient meets the inclusion criteria, then the recipient is provided with information about the project by the caseworker. If the recipient wishes to participate in the project he/she is asked to fill out a consent form and a questionnaire regarding employment status, alcohol consumption, other habits of abuse, health status and background information.

Welfare recipients who do not wish to participate will as usual be referred to the welfare-to-work schemes deemed most appropriate by the caseworker.

The intervention is designed as a randomized controlled trial, where heavy drinkers who meet the inclusion criteria and wish to participate will be allocated to either:

A) An intervention group receiving welfare-to-work scheme combined with alcohol treatment.

or

B) A control group receiving only welfare-to-work scheme.

After 6 and 12 months there will be a follow-up where participants will be asked to answer a questionnaire with questions about their employment status, alcohol consumption, other habits of abuse, health status and background information.

In this study ANCOVA is chosen to analyses the effective of the intervention.

Conditions

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Alcohol Abuse

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Intervention group

Intervention group

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Intervention group

Intervention Type OTHER

Alcohol treatment paralleling welfare-to-work participation: The participants are referred to the municipalities' outpatient alcohol treatment programmes and at the same time referred to an ordinary welfare-to-work programme.

Intervention control

Control group

Group Type PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Control group

Intervention Type OTHER

The participants will as usual be referred to the welfare-to-work schemes deemed most appropriate by the caseworker. The intervention is no different than what the municipality would have offered if the participant was not part of the study.

Interventions

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Intervention group

Alcohol treatment paralleling welfare-to-work participation: The participants are referred to the municipalities' outpatient alcohol treatment programmes and at the same time referred to an ordinary welfare-to-work programme.

Intervention Type OTHER

Control group

The participants will as usual be referred to the welfare-to-work schemes deemed most appropriate by the caseworker. The intervention is no different than what the municipality would have offered if the participant was not part of the study.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Participants must have an audit-score above 7.
* Participants must be unemployed and receive welfare-to-work schemes when included.

Exclusion Criteria

* Participants who have an audit-score below 8.
* Participants who have a normal job.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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TRYG Foundation

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Southern Denmark

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Maja Bæksgaard Hansen

Research assistant

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Morten Grønbæk, MD, PhD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Centre for Intervention Research in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Locations

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National Institute of Public Health - University of Southern Denmark

Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark

Site Status

Countries

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Denmark

References

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Hansen MB, Kloster S, Danquah IH, Nielsen AS, Becker U, Tjornhoj-Thomsen T, Tolstrup JS. "A welfare recipient may be drinking, but as long as he does as told--he may drink himself to death": a qualitative analysis of project implementation barriers among Danish job consultants. BMC Public Health. 2015 Mar 18;15:264. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-1620-x.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 25886200 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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61110- 1986 (tryg, p7)

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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