Enhancing Addiction Treatment Through Psychoeducation with Metacognium
This study is exploring a new way to help people with substance use disorders (SUDs) by using an app called Metacognium. The app provides "Neuroscience-Informed Psychoeducation for Addiction" (NIPA), which aims to increase your awareness of how addiction affects your thinking and decision-making. You would continue your usual treatment while also using the Metacognium app for four weeks. The study wants to see if it's possible to recruit people for this NIPA intervention and how well participants stick with and complete the program. To join, you need to be 18-65 years old, have an opioid and/or stimulant use disorder, be on medication for your SUD, and own a smartphone. You cannot join if you have current psychosis, mania, suicidal/homicidal thoughts, or don't speak English. The current recruitment status is unclear.
- Study design
- This is an interventional study with a planned enrollment of 40 participants. It is not specified if it is randomized or blinded.
- What's involved
- Participants will install and use the Metacognium software app for four weeks, which includes four 20-minute sessions. You will also continue your usual treatment schedule for four weeks.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- The study measures feasibility, retention, and completion rates from baseline through the 4-week intervention period.
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Enhancing Addiction Treatment Through Psychoeducation
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Jasmin Vassileva, Ph.D. · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Virginia Commonwealth University
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What this trial measures
- Feasibility of recruiting for the Neuroscience-Informed Psychoeducation for Addiction (NIPA) interventionBaseline through 4 week intervention
The recruitment rate is quantified as the % of all participants who satisfy the inclusion criteria and agree to participate.
- Retention/adherence rate for the Neuroscience-Informed Psychoeducation for Addiction (NIPA) InterventionBaseline through 4 week intervention
Retention/adherence rate is quantified as the % of participants who remain enrolled until the end of the study, completing all NIPA sessions and pre- and post-assessments.
- Completion rate for the Neuroscience-Informed Psychoeducation for Addiction (NIPA) interventionBaseline through 4 week intervention
Completion rate, indexing the number of training sessions completed by each participant.
- Measure acceptability of the Neuroscience-Informed Psychoeducation for Addiction (NIPA) interventionBaseline through 4 week intervention
Acceptability is measured with a 10-item questionnaire that uses a 10-point Likert scale, with higher scores indicating greater acceptability. Items include perceived enjoyment, convenience, informativeness, applicability, effectiveness, satisfaction, continued use, barriers to use, and most/least liked aspects.