Enhancing Prospective Thinking in Early Recovery
Indiana University
200 participants
Mar 28, 2023
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to use a novel virtual reality intervention to test for efficacy in reducing alcohol use and increasing abstinence, with concomitant increases in future self-identification, future time perspective, and delay-of-reward, in early recovering stimulant use disorder (SUD) persons. The main question\[s\] this trial aims to answer are: Will the Virtual Reality (VR) intervention decrease the number of stimulant use days? Will the VR intervention produce longer abstinence periods during follow-up visits? Will the VR intervention increase alcohol abstinence rates? Will the VR intervention increase future self-identification? Will the VR intervention increase self-reported future time perspective? Will the VR intervention increase preference for delayed rewards in a laboratory delay discounting task on the study day? Will the VR intervention produce gains in the behavioral effects of future self-identification, future time perspective, and delayed rewards at the 30-day and 6-month follow-ups? Researchers will compare the experimental and control groups to see if there are differences in the results for the questions outlined above.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria7
- Abstinence between ≥14 days and ≤1 year
- At least 18 years old
- Verbal endorsement of commitment to recovery
- Outpatient
- Psychotropic drugs for SUD-comorbidity
- Drug/alcohol abstinence ≥ 24 hours at the time of the study day visit
- English comprehension
Exclusion Criteria7
- Unstable medical disorders
- Less than 18 years old
- Habitual drug use
- Mu-opioid drugs
- Smell/taste disorders
- Unstable psychiatric conditions
- Extravagant/elaborate face tattoos
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Interventions
They will receive a Virtual Reality Park experience, which is an empty park with no avatars. They will then have a Virtual Reality Avatar experience, where they will see an avatar resembling themselves in a park setting.
They will receive a Virtual Reality Park experience, which is an empty park with no avatars.
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NCT05835921