NCT03696888 is a NA clinical trial of Telecoach in Alcohol Abuse, sponsored by Karolinska Institutet.

Who is sponsoring NCT03696888?

NCT03696888 is sponsored by Karolinska Institutet.

What drugs are being tested in NCT03696888?

Interventions in NCT03696888: Telecoach, TeleCoach control.

What condition does NCT03696888 study?

NCT03696888 studies Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Use Disorder, Alcohol Drinking, Alcohol Dependence, Alcohol; Harmful Use.

Is NCT03696888 still recruiting?

NCT03696888 is currently completed. Last updated 13 November 2023.

Last reviewed 2023-11-13 · How we verify

NCT03696888

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Creator: Drug Landscape
Published: 2026-01-01
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Skills-training for Reducing Risky Alcohol Use in App Form

Completed NA Last updated 13 November 2023

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Telecoach in Alcohol Abuse in 678 participants. Completed in 15 August 2020.

Timeline

7 December 2018

Primary endpoint
15 January 2020

15 August 2020

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Karolinska Institutet
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	678
Start date	7 December 2018
Primary completion	15 January 2020
Estimated completion	15 August 2020
Sites	1 location across Sweden

Drugs / interventions tested

Telecoach
TeleCoach control

Conditions studied

Alcohol Abuse — all drugs for Alcohol Abuse →
Alcohol Use Disorder — all drugs for Alcohol Use Disorder →
Alcohol Drinking — all drugs for Alcohol Drinking →
Alcohol Dependence — all drugs for Alcohol Dependence →

Sponsor

Karolinska Institutet

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Alcohol Abuse or Alcohol Use Disorder. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

This study evaluates the efficacy of a skills training web-based mobile phone application, Telecoach among individuals in the general population seeking help for their risky alcohol consumption on the Internet. The design is a two-armed randomized controlled design, and outcomes are measured in terms of changes in excessive alcohol use at follow up 6, 12 and 26 weeks after study initiation and baseline data gathering. The Telecoach web app delivers skills training in the form of exercises commonly used in psychosocial interventions for risky alcohol use. The controll condition is a web app providing information on the effects of alcohol on the consumers' health.

Publications & conference data

2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

Reducing Risky Alcohol Use <i>via</i> Smartphone App Skills Training Among Adult Internet Help-Seekers: A Randomized Pilot Trial.
Berman AH, Molander O, Tahir M, Törnblom P, et al · · 2020 · cited 8× · PMID 32536880 · DOI 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00434
App-based skills training to reduce problem drinking among adult internet help-seekers: a double-blinded randomized controlled trial.
Chen Y, Berman AH, Andersson C, Blankers M, et al · · 2026 · PMID 41918142 · DOI 10.1186/s13722-026-00663-5

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Verify against primary sources

ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
WHO ICTRP — international registry index
EU Clinical Trials Register
Sponsor press releases (Google)

Data sources for this page

Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03696888 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Karolinska Institutet
Last refreshed: 13 November 2023

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