- Cohort of Alcohol-Dependent Patients: Management of Primary Healthcare in France
Head :
Falissard Bruno, Inserm U1018 – Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health – Team: Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Mallet Laurent
Mallet Laurent
Last update : 08/17/2016 | Version : 1 | ID : 4513
| General | |
| Identification | |
| Detailed name | Cohort of Alcohol-Dependent Patients: Management of Primary Healthcare in France |
| General Aspects | |
| Medical area |
Psychology and psychiatry |
| Pathology (details) | Alcoholism |
| Health determinants |
Addictions Healthcare system and access to health care services |
| Keywords | primary healthcare, patient treatment, alcohol, addiction, management, dependency, France, predictive factors, follow-up |
| Scientific investigator(s) (Contact) | |
| Name of the director | Falissard |
| Surname | Bruno |
| Address | CESP |
| Phone | + 33 (0)1 58 41 58 50 |
| falissard_b@wanadoo.fr | |
| Unit | Inserm U1018 – Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health – Team: Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Health |
| Organization | INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE |
| Name of the director | Mallet |
| Surname | Laurent |
| lmalet@chu-clermontferrand.fr | |
| Organization | Clermont Ferrand University Hospital |
| Collaborations | |
| Funding | |
| Funding status |
Public |
| Details | Inserm |
| Governance of the database | |
| Sponsor(s) or organisation(s) responsible | INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale |
| Organisation status |
Public |
| Additional contact | |
| Main features | |
| Type of database | |
| Type of database |
Study databases |
| Study databases (details) |
Cohort study |
| Database recruitment is carried out by an intermediary |
A selection of health care professionals |
| Database recruitment is carried out as part of an interventional study |
No |
| Additional information regarding sample selection. |
Twenty-five physicians were drawn from an official list of general practitioners practising in central France.
Each general practitioner must include between 3 and 5 patients in the study. |
| Database objective | |
| Main objective |
To analyse the diagnostic findings from alcohol addiction.
To explore the factors related to the development of alcohol addiction. To examine the characteristics of patient management and management in primary healthcare. |
| Inclusion criteria |
Chronic alcoholics (DSM-IV), between 18 and 65 years old.
Exclusion criteria: patients whose alcohol dependency is not a primary DSM-IV Axis 1 diagnosis (mental retardation, schizophrenia or other psychiatric disorders, bipolar mood disorders); patients with related dependencies and severe personality disorders. However, patients with high anxiety or mood disorders (a large section of the clinical practice) were not excluded. |
| Population type | |
| Age |
Adulthood (19 to 24 years) Adulthood (25 to 44 years) Adulthood (45 to 64 years) |
| Population covered |
Sick population |
| Gender |
Male Woman |
| Geography area |
Regional |
| French regions covered by the database |
Centre-Val de Loire |
| Detail of the geography area | Central region |
| Data collection | |
| Dates | |
| Date of first collection (YYYY or MM/YYYY) | 2008 |
| Date of last collection (YYYY or MM/YYYY) | 2011 |
| Size of the database | |
| Size of the database (number of individuals) |
< 500 individuals |
| Details of the number of individuals | 122 |
| Data | |
| Database activity |
Data collection completed |
| Type of data collected |
Clinical data Declarative data |
| Clinical data (detail) |
Medical registration |
| Details of collected clinical data | Dependence severity; duration of abuse in terms of alcohol, anxiety and depression (MINI); consultations with other healthcare professionals |
| Declarative data (detail) |
Paper self-questionnaire |
| Details of collected declarative data | Age, sex, marital status, profession, alcohol addiction within the family; health events; access to healthcare; life events (family, financial, work-related, social, legal, etc.) |
| Presence of a biobank |
No |
| Health parameters studied |
Health event/morbidity Health care consumption and services Quality of life/health perception |
| Care consumption (detail) |
Medical/paramedical consultation Medicines consumption |
| Procedures | |
| Data collection method | At each consultation by the general practitioner. |
| Participant monitoring |
Yes |
| Monitoring procedures |
Monitoring by contact with the referring doctor |
| Details on monitoring of participants | The general practitioner records patient details (follow-up on alcohol consultation, quality of life, psychological state, etc.) at each consultation. Patient also fills out a self-administered questionnaire regarding their own consumption (audit C). Follow-up at 18 months after baseline with at least 3 visits. |
| Links to administrative sources |
No |
| Promotion and access | |
| Promotion | |
| Link to the document | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=alcohol+AND+care+management+AND+Falissard+B+[Author]+AND+Malet+L+[Author] |
| Access | |
| Terms of data access (charter for data provision, format of data, availability delay) | Contact the scientist in charge. |
| Access to aggregated data |
Access on specific project only |
| Access to individual data |
Access on specific project only |
