Status:
COMPLETED
Healthy Activities for Prize Incentives
Lead Sponsor:
UConn Health
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Conditions:
Substance Abuse
HIV Infections
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-65 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
In this Stage 1 therapy development project, we plan to develop, formalize, and derive effect size estimates of a contingency management (CM) therapy that focuses on improving health, especially as re...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- HIV+ and a member of Connections
- Age 18-65 years
- English speaking
- Past-year DSM-IV diagnosis of opioid, cocaine, methamphetamine, alcohol, or marijuana abuse or dependence
- Written permission from one's primary care or infectious disease physician to participate in the study and an exercise program
- Plans to reside in the local area for the next 8 months and
- Willing to sign informed consent
Exclusion
- Inability to comprehend the study as assessed by the Informed Consent Quiz and Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE)
- Severely disruptive behavior
- In recovery for pathological gambling (due to potential similarity between the contingency management procedure and gambling)
- Serious uncontrolled psychiatric disorder other than substance use disorders that require inpatient hospitalization (e.g., active bipolar disorder, psychosis, suicidal)
- History of myocardial infarction, stroke, unstable angina, coronary artery bypass grafting, angioplasty/stent, uncontrolled arrhythmia, or hyperthyroidism in the past 6 months as reported by patient or physician
- Blood pressure \>165/95 mmHg and
- Grossly abnormal findings on indices of physical functioning (\>2 SDs above means for sedentary age/gender norms according to ACSM, 2006)
- Pregnancy
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 1 2008
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
May 1 2013
Estimated Enrollment :
75 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00717444
Start Date
September 1 2008
End Date
May 1 2013
Last Update
December 26 2018
Active Locations (1)
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Connections, Inc.
Hartford, Connecticut, United States, 06106