Pilot: Addiction Services Treatment Evaluation of Risk Cohort Study
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Addiction Services Treatment Evaluation of Risk (ASTERISK) Cohort Study Pilot
IRAS ID
225723
Contact name
Katherine Irene Morley
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
King's College London
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 13 days
Research summary
The purpose of this pilot study is to collect data that will permit assessment of the feasibility and necessity, and inform the development, of a large-scale study of addiction services clients combining self-reported data from clients with information from their electronic health record (EHR). The EHR data will consist of medical records held by the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM), where participants will currently be receiving treatment, and those held by Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) and the Office of National Statistics (ONS). If undertaken, the larger-scale study would be focused on liver disease, associated risk factors, and treatment in addiction services clients. This is important because addiction services clients are at high risk of developing liver disease, but treatment uptake for liver disease risk factors such as hepatitis and heavy alcohol use is often low.
This pilot study will allow us to understand whether clients will participate in this type of study, and whether the data collected will be useful for research. The pilot will also include a qualitative interview component with a selected subset of participants about their experience of accessing treatment for liver disease and related conditions, which will inform the future large-scale study and help us to understand how to improve treatment uptake.
All current clients of SLaM addiction services clinics are eligible to participate. The data collection component of the study, which involves a private interview between a participant and a research staff member, will last approximately one hour. Participant follow-up will be conducted using only EHR data; participants who do not consent to the linkage of their interview and EHR data will not be followed-up as there is no participant re-contact in this study.
This pilot study is funded by a Small Grant from Alcohol Research UK.
REC name
East of England - Cambridge Central Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
17/EE/0193
Date of REC Opinion
5 Jun 2017
REC opinion
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