AAT-App Outpatient Trial
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Turning Point
- Where
- Australia6 sites in 1 countryChoose a country to see its sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Completed
- People taking part
- 82 people enrolled
- Started
- 25 May 2022
- Ended
- 15 May 2024
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets a sham (pretend) treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- AAT-App
- Minimal AAT-App
- Record updated
- 16 December 2024
Who can take part
- Age
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Own an Android or iOS smartphone with an Australian mobile number
- Be currently accessing outpatient treatment for alcohol problems. Participants with multiple drugs of concern are eligible as long as alcohol is one of the drugs of concern for the current episode of treatment
- Have an Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) score of at least 8
Who cannot take part
- Any residential rehabilitation within the past 4 weeks
- Any form of inpatient treatment (e.g. hospital or residential withdrawal treatment) within the past week
- Scheduled to enter inpatient/residential treatment within the next month
This trial has no sites in United States.
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About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Cognitive biases contribute to the difficulty experienced by heavy drinkers wishing to reduce their alcohol use. Recent interventions designed to reduce cognitive biases demonstrate efficacy for Approach Bias Modification (ApBM). Reductions in the likelihood of relapse have been found after ApBM in Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) patients during residential treatment. Current methods of ApBM are usually delivered by computer and joystick and come with several limitations, including accessibility. If ApBM could be shown to be feasible in other settings, such as outpatient treatment, it could benefit a much larger population with AUD.
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This randomised controlled trial will test the efficacy of a recently-developed ApBM smartphone app called "AAT-App" ("Alcohol Avoidance Training App"). We aim to test whether AAT-App, relative to a minimal version of the app which excludes ApBM training, is effective at reducing alcohol use, cravings, severity of dependence, and approach bias (a measure of a person's automatic tendency to automatically approach alcohol-related stimuli), and to explore user experiences of AAT-App to guide future improvements to the app and its implementation.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Active AAT-AppTreatment being tested
Participants will receive the active AAT-App.
Treatment: AAT-App
- Minimal AAT-AppSham treatment, for comparison
Participants will receive the minimal version of AAT-App.
Data and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- AAT-App Trial: A Clinical Trial of a "Brain-training" Smartphone App to Help Reduce Alcohol Use in People Accessing Outpatient Alcohol Treatment
- Publications
- "A tool in a toolbox": patient engagement with a gamified and personalised approach bias modification app to reduce harmful alcohol consumption - a qualitative study.Addiction science & clinical practice, 2026
- Efficacy of a personalised alcohol approach bias modification smartphone app in people accessing outpatient alcohol use disorder treatment: A randomised controlled trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England), 2026
- Record updated
- 16 December 2024