Understanding Pathways to Wellness and Recovery in Detroit - Digital Recovery Support Services
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Brandeis University
- Where
- Detroit, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 65 people, planned
- Started
- 13 Jun 2026
- Expected to end
- May 2027
- Type of study
- Interventional
- Treatments tested
- Digital recovery support services
- Record updated
- 24 July 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
- Able to communicate in English and read at an 8th grade reading level
- Able to read and sign an informed consent form
- Comfortable with smartphone technology or willing and able to learn
- Identify as Black or African American
- Is an adult over the age of 18
- Is in recovery from alcohol problems for at least 3 months and no more than 5 years
- Is receiving in-person recovery support services at our partner recovery community center at the time of screening and enrollment
- Willing to receive and respond to weekly texts with a survey link for brief assessments, and complete two in-person research assessments (baseline and 13-week)
Who cannot take part
- Does not meet inclusion criteria
Where in United States
- Detroit Recovery ProjectDetroit, United StatesContact: Research ManagerTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if digital recovery support services (such as smartphone app) help to support alcohol recovery. We focus on a community of Black and African American people with alcohol use disorder (AUD) who receive in-person recovery support services from a recovery community center.
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Participants will:
* Have an initial 2-hour in-person visit with the research team. During this visit, participants will be asked about themselves and their recovery from alcohol problems. They will also learn about digital recovery resources. * Use digital recovery resources on their own for 12 weeks. * Complete a short, weekly survey about their experience using digital recovery resources. * Have a follow-up 1-hour in-person visit where the researcher asks about again about the participants, their recovery and how they felt about using the digital recovery support services.
The group in the trial
- TAU + DRSSTreatment being tested
At the initial in-person visit, participants will complete a structured interview of baseline assessments and will be provided with a menu of digital recovery support services (D-RSS) to participants, technical assistance, and a phone and data plan (if needed). The research team will discuss the D-RSS menu with the participants and guide them through app installation and use. Following the initial visit, it is up to the participants to engage with the D-RSS. We will send a text survey 1 week after the visit, and each week thereafter for 12 weeks, that assesses their engagement with in-person recovery supports, D-RSS, and their current recovery status. The 3-month visit will be scheduled in the week following the last (week 12) text survey, at which participants will meet with research staff for a final in-person assessment.
Treatment: Digital recovery support services
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
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- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- UPWARD Study RCT of Digital Recovery Support Services (D-RSS) Among a Black Population in Recovery From Alcohol Use Disorders
- Record updated
- 24 July 2026