Copello, Alex, Godfrey, Christine, Heather, Nick, Hodgson, Ray, Orford, Jim, Raistrick, Duncan, Russell, Ian, Tober, Gillian, Slegg, Gary P., Alwyn, Tina, and others. (2001) United Kingdom Alcohol Treatment Trial (UKATT): Hypotheses, design and methods. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 36 (1). pp. 11-21. ISSN 0735-0414. (doi:10.1093/alcalc/36.1.11) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:16970)
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Abstract
The United Kingdom Alcohol Treatment Trial (UKATT) is intended to be the largest trial of treatment for alcohol problems ever conducted in the UK. UKATT is a multicentre, randomized, controlled trial with blind assessment, representing a collaboration between psychiatry, clinical psychology, biostatistics, and health economics. This article sets out, in advance of data analysis, the theoretical background of the trial and its hypotheses, design, and methods. A projected total of 720 clients attending specialist services for treatment of alcohol problems will be randomized to Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET) or to Social Behaviour and Network Therapy (SBNT), a novel treatment developed for the trial with strong support from theory and research. The trial will test two main hypotheses, expressed in null form as: (1) less intensive, motivationally based treatment (MET) is as effective as more intensive, socially based treatment (SBNT); (2) more intensive, socially based treatment (SBNT) is as cost-effective as less intensive, motivationally based treatment (MET). A number of subsidiary hypotheses regarding client-treatment interactions and therapist effects will also be tested. The article describes general features of the trial that investigators considered desirable, namely that it should: (1) be a pragmatic, rather than an explanatory, trial; (2) be an effectiveness trial based on 'real-world' conditions of treatment delivery; (3) incorporate high standards of training, supervision and quality control of treatment delivery; (4) pay close attention to treatment process as well as treatment outcome; (5) build economic evaluation into the design at the outset. First results from UKATT are expected in 2002 and the main results in 2003.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| DOI/Identification number: | 10.1093/alcalc/36.1.11 |
| Additional information: | Times Cited: 25 |
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R Medicine > R Medicine (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Centre for Health Services Studies |
| Depositing User: | Simon Coulton |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Apr 2009 14:45 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 09:52 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/16970 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
University of Kent Author Information
Coulton, Simon.
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