Views and experiences of inpatients with alcohol related liver disease
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Views and experiences of inpatients with alcohol related liver disease on maintaining and promoting abstinence from alcohol.
IRAS ID
304546
Contact name
Christopher Oldroyd
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 6 months, 1 days
Research summary
Why is this research needed?
Deaths and harm from alcohol related liver disease have doubled in the last 20 years. Patients often die at a young age and liver disease has overtaken lung and breast cancer in causing years lost of working life. Patients who have alcohol related liver disease and continue to drink alcohol will progress to advanced liver disease called alcohol related cirrhosis and have a very poor outlook. Hospital admission provides an opportunity to engage patients about their alcohol use and help them to cut down or stop drinking alcohol completely. Unfortunately, many of the treatment options to help people cut down on alcohol use are untested in patients with cirrhosis. Available treatments are also grossly underused with only 1% of patients with cirrhosis receiving the preferred combination of medications and talking therapies to support them in reducing their alcohol intake.
What will this research find out?
This study will explore the attitudes, experiences, and beliefs of people admitted to hosital with alcohol related cirrhosis. This will help answer the following questions:
What are the most effective ways to help patients admitted with AC stop harmful drinking?
How can we improve the uptake of interventions?
What outcomes should be used when assessing the impact of interventions?
Method
We will interview patients who have been admitted to hospital with alcohol related cirrhosis. We will ask them about their experiences of treatments, their attitudes towards reducing alcohol intake and their views on how treatments could be better.REC name
South West - Cornwall & Plymouth Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
22/SW/0077
Date of REC Opinion
26 May 2022
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion