Table 1.
Schedule of assessments
| Assessment | Telephone contact | Pre treatment | Post washout | Post treatment | 3 month follow-up | 6 month follow-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Eligibility | ||||||
| Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) [64] |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Mini Social Phobia Inventory (Mini-SPIN) [65] |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol Revised (CIWA-AR) [70] |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Suicide Behaviours Questionnaire-Revised (SBQ-R) [81] |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Psychosis Screening Questionnaire [67] |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-IV (ADIS-IV) [82] incorporating International Personality Disorders Examination Avoidant Personality Disorder questions (IPDE) [72] |
- |
+ |
- |
- |
+ |
- |
|
Primary outcome measures | ||||||
| Social Phobia Scale and Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SPS/SIAS) [83] |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
| Time Line Follow Back (TLFB) [76] |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
| Severity of Alcohol Dependence Questionnaire (SADQc) [84] |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
| General Health functioning SF12 [85]. |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
| Blood for LFTs, FBC, CDT, Electrolytes |
- |
+ |
- |
- |
+(1) |
- |
|
Secondary outcome measures | ||||||
| Sheehan Disability Scale(SDS) [86] |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
| Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) [87] |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
| Days out of role from the Brief Disability Questionnaire [88] |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
| Drinker Inventory of Consequences (DRINC) [89] |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
Static and varying covariates | ||||||
| Family Tree Questionnaire (FTQ) |
|
+ |
|
|
|
|
| Anxiety Reduction Subscale of the Alcohol Expectancies Questionnaire [90] |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
| Kushner’s Alcohol Outcome Expectancies Questionnaire [74] |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
| Penn Alcohol Craving Scale(PACS) [77] |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
| Alcohol Abstinence Self Efficacy Scale (AASES) [78] |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
| Alcohol Expectancies for Social Evaluative Situations scale (AESES) [91] |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
| Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI) [73] |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
| University of Rhode Island Change Assessment (URICA) [79] |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
Potential confounds | ||||||
| Health Service Utilisation questions [80] |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
| The Opiate Treatment Index (OTI) [69,92] | - | + | - | + | + | + |
Notes (1) Blood tests were used to verify abstinence only if baseline tests were elevated when drinking was reported.