Actively Recruiting
Self-Concept and Autobiographical Memory in Alcohol Use Disorder
Led by CHU de Reims · Updated on 2026-03-13
60
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
131 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
C
CHU de Reims
Lead Sponsor
E
EPSM de la Marne
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
This study has two objectives. First, to evaluate the effectiveness of psychotherapy sessions based on self-concept and autobiographical memory in patients suffering from alcohol use disorders (AUD). Second, investigate the relationship between drinking identity and AUD. These objectives will be investigated according to a longitudinal design. In this study, the drinking identity is evaluated on its implicit dimension and on its explicit dimension. Levels of alcohol use and dependence are assessed by the amount and frequency of drinking, the duration of abstinence, and the intensity of AUD symptoms. These assessments consist three visits: on the day of inclusion, then at three months and six months after the first visit. The psychotherapy sessions consist of four individual sessions. They are inspired by the Social Identity Mapping in Addiction Recovery (SIM-AR) by Beckwith et al. (2019), combined with autobiographical reasoning exercises. Patients with an AUD, participants in the study, are recruited from the addiction department of the Etablissement Public de Santé Mentale de la Marne. To investigate the effects of individual psychotherapy sessions, two groups of patients are constituted randomly. The first group will have four psychotherapy sessions between the first visit and the second vist. The second group will not follow psychotherapy sessions but will benefit from the usual addiction treatments. The first hypothesis is that patients who have completed the psychotherapy sessions will have lower alcohol consumption (frequency, quantities, peaks) and symptoms of AUD (cravings, drinking refusal self-efficacy and feeling of recovery) than those who have not benefited from the program. The second hypothesis is that implicit and explicit levels of drinking identity will predict alcohol consumption (frequencies, quantities, peaks) and symptoms of dependence (cravings, drinking refusal self-efficacy and feeling of recovery) for all participants.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Self-Concept and Autobiographical Memory in Alcohol Use Disorder
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Patients over 24 years old, men or women
- Having a diagnosis of alcohol use disorder according to DSM-5 criteria
- Being a native French speaker
- Patients enrolled in the national healthcare insurance program
- Consenting to participate to the study
You will not qualify if you...
- A diagnosis of current non-stabilized psychiatric disorders according to DSM-5 criteria
- The presence of another substance use disorder, except for tobacco dependence
- The presence of any intellectual disability, of pervasive developmental disorders
- The presence of any neurological disorder or any other disorder affecting the central nervous system including neurological complications of alcoholism
- A sensorial impairment uncorrected (visual and/or hearing)
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Chu Reims
Reims, France, 51092
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
F
Farid BENZEROUK
CONTACT
S
Sylvain PORTIER
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Number of Arms
2
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