Comparing the Spanish Version of CANreduce With or Without Psychological Support and Treatment as Usual, Reducing Cannabis Use.

NCT ID: NCT04517474

Last Updated: 2021-11-08

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

300 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-11-10

Study Completion Date

2022-12-01

Brief Summary

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Cannabis is the most widely used psychoactive substance around the world after alcohol and tobacco. Although approximately one in ten users develop serious problems of dependency, only a small number attend outpatient addiction counseling centers. CANreduce is an adherence-focused guidance enhanced web-based self-help program with promising results in German and other languages. It also reaches those users who hesitate to approach such treatment centers and help them to reduce their cannabis use.

This study will test the effectiveness of the Spanish version of the enhanced web-based self-help intervention with psychological support, an enhanced web-based self-help intervention (without psychological support) and a waiting list control in reducing cannabis use in problematic users.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Cannabis Use Disorder

Keywords

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Mental health Adherence, Treatment Cognitive behavioral therapy Web-based Self-Help

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants
The masking technique will be partially single-blinded-in that participants in either of the two active treatment groups will not know which version they work with. The two versions are neutrally described as two differently optimized variants to prevent participants from having a preference of one over the other possibly resulting in a disappointment when being allocated to the unwished version. However, subjects will know whether they have been assigned to treatment-as-usual (TAU). Any blinding of research and study personnel is not warranted.

Study Groups

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CANreduce with psychological support

Adherence-focused guidance enhanced web-based self-help for the reduction of cannabis use with psychological support

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

CANreduce

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

CANreduce is an automated web-based self-help tool based on classical Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT) approaches for treating cannabis dependence. It will consist of a consumption diary, eight modules designed to reduce cannabis use based on the principles of motivational interviewing, self-control practices, and methods of cognitive behavioral therapy ( strategies for goal achievement, Identifying risk situations, Dealing with cannabis craving, Dealing with relapses, Working on needs, Saying "no" to foster refusal skills, Dealing with burdens, Preserving achievements). Participants can study all modules at their own pace and order, though a specific order will be advised.

psychological support

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

psychological support

CANreduce without psychological support

Adherence-focused guidance enhanced web-based self-help for the reduction of cannabis use without psychological support

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

CANreduce

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

CANreduce is an automated web-based self-help tool based on classical Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT) approaches for treating cannabis dependence. It will consist of a consumption diary, eight modules designed to reduce cannabis use based on the principles of motivational interviewing, self-control practices, and methods of cognitive behavioral therapy ( strategies for goal achievement, Identifying risk situations, Dealing with cannabis craving, Dealing with relapses, Working on needs, Saying "no" to foster refusal skills, Dealing with burdens, Preserving achievements). Participants can study all modules at their own pace and order, though a specific order will be advised.

Treatment as usual

Users will be prompt to a web with a list of the treatment centers nearby their postal code

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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CANreduce

CANreduce is an automated web-based self-help tool based on classical Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT) approaches for treating cannabis dependence. It will consist of a consumption diary, eight modules designed to reduce cannabis use based on the principles of motivational interviewing, self-control practices, and methods of cognitive behavioral therapy ( strategies for goal achievement, Identifying risk situations, Dealing with cannabis craving, Dealing with relapses, Working on needs, Saying "no" to foster refusal skills, Dealing with burdens, Preserving achievements). Participants can study all modules at their own pace and order, though a specific order will be advised.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

psychological support

psychological support

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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CANreduce: Adherence-focused guidance enhanced web-based self-help for the reduction of cannabis use with psychological support

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Cannabis use of at least once a week 30 days prior to study entry
* At least 18 years old
* At least weekly internet access and a valid email address

Exclusion Criteria

* Participant reports current pharmacological psychiatric disease or history of psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar type I disorder or significant current suicidal or homicidal thoughts
* Use of other pharmacological and psychosocial treatments for cannabis use disorders
* Inability to read or write in Spanish
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Research Institute for Public Health and Addiction, Switzerland

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Parc de Salut Mar

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Marta Torrens, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Hospital del Mar Research Institute (IMIM)

Locations

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Juan-Ignacio Mestre-Pinto

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Spain

Central Contacts

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Marta Torrens, PhD

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 0034933160697

Email: [email protected]

Juan-Ignacio Mestre-Pinto, PhD

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 0034933160697

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Juan-Ignacio Mestre-Pinto, PhD

Role: primary

References

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Amann M, Haug S, Wenger A, Baumgartner C, Ebert DD, Berger T, Stark L, Walter M, Schaub MP. The Effects of Social Presence on Adherence-Focused Guidance in Problematic Cannabis Users: Protocol for the CANreduce 2.0 Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2018 Jan 31;7(1):e30. doi: 10.2196/resprot.9484.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 29386176 (View on PubMed)

Schaub MP, Wenger A, Berg O, Beck T, Stark L, Buehler E, Haug S. A Web-Based Self-Help Intervention With and Without Chat Counseling to Reduce Cannabis Use in Problematic Cannabis Users: Three-Arm Randomized Controlled Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2015 Oct 13;17(10):e232. doi: 10.2196/jmir.4860.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 26462848 (View on PubMed)

Mestre-Pinto JI, Fonseca F, Schaub MP, Baumgartner C, Alias-Ferri M, Torrens M. CANreduce-SP-adding psychological support to web-based adherence-focused guided self-help for cannabis users: study protocol for a three-arm randomized control trial. Trials. 2022 Jun 22;23(1):524. doi: 10.1186/s13063-022-06399-2.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 35733201 (View on PubMed)

Related Links

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http://canreduce.es

Web of the Spanish study (in Spanish)

http://canreduce.at

Web of the Swiss study (in German)

Other Identifiers

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2019/8901/I

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id