Peer Support in Alcohol Dependence
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
- Where
- France5 sites in 1 countryChoose a country to see its sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 626 people, planned
- Started
- 19 Oct 2026
- Expected to end
- 19 Apr 2030
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Quality life questionnaire AQoLS
- Quality life questionnaire Euroqol EQ-5D-5L
- Peer support consultations
- Record updated
- 21 October 2026
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
- Aged ≥ 18
- Socially insured
- Meeting DSM-5 criteria for alcohol use disorder (AUD)
- Abstinent from alcohol and involved in supervised alcohol withdrawal for at least 5 days and no more than 21 days (outpatient or inpatient)
- Starting a post-detoxification outpatient program
Who cannot take part
- Individual accompaniment by a Peer support in the 15 days prior to inclusion
- Other severe substance use disorder, i.e. DSM-5 criteria ≥ 6 (excluding tobacco)
- Psychiatric or cognitive comorbidities making inclusion impossible, at the investigator's discretion
- Patient under protective measure (safeguard measure, guardianship) or deprived of liberty or in ordered care and hospitalization measures without consent
- Inability to communicate and express oneself orally in French, compromising the possibility of exchanges between the Peer support and the patient
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About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) affects between 4% and 6% of French adults, and requires appropriate medical treatment.
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However, 20-40% of patients with AUD are lost to follow-up at an early stage. Consequently, it is important for addiction departments to implement and evaluate innovative tools and interventions, including the involvement of peer support, to help patients remain in care, and to assess whether peer support has a positive impact on their clinical outcome.
Addiction peer support specialists (APSSs) are individuals who have personally experienced addiction, and who have decided to use their experience to assist other people going through a similar situation, after completing a specific official graduation.
Compared to other caregivers, APSSs may induce in patients a sense of identification which could improve the patient motivation to engage and remain in care.
This is the main hypothesis and the main scientific objective of the PEERSIAD study, which will aim to confirm that accompanying patients with AUD using APSSs after alcohol detoxification, reduces the rate of lost-to-follow-up and improves the overall clinical outcome.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Peer support GroupTreatment being tested
313 patients will be recruited over 3 years in the peer support group. Patients will be accompanied by an addiction peer support specialist, as part of an "add-on" follow-up compared with conventional follow-up (same management as in the control group).
Treatment: Quality life questionnaire AQoLS, Quality life questionnaire Euroqol EQ-5D-5L, and Peer support consultations
- Control GroupExisting treatment, for comparison
313 patients will be recruited over 3 years in the control group. Patients will receive "as usual" outpatient abstinence-maintenance follow-up, with consultations of all kinds (medical, psychological, nursing, group, etc.)
Treatment: Quality life questionnaire AQoLS and Quality life questionnaire Euroqol EQ-5D-5L
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Contribution of Addiction Peer Support on Adherence to Care and Clinical Outcomes in Alcohol Dependence: a Prospective Controlled Trial With Medico-economic Component
- Record updated
- 21 October 2026