CompletedNot Applicable

Ambulance Calls for Substance Use and Alcohol in a Pandemic (ASAP)

United Kingdom55,000 participantsStarted 2019-03-23

Plain-language summary

The Primary objective is to explore ambulance service attendance at incidents involving alcohol and/or substance use over the period of the pandemic lockdown, and the following months. This will be to determine prevalence and explore factors such as patient gender, age, ethnicity or location. Analysis will examine the calls over the course of the year prior to the lockdown, and then compare this to the period of lockdown and following months.

Who can participate

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Patient of any age * Patient requested ambulance attendance between 23rd March 2019 and 22nd March 2021 * The patient record is held by East Midlands Ambulance Service * Patient records that have recorded a clinical impression related to alcohol and substance use will be included in the data set alongside a word search in the free text response box for the following words/phrases: narcotic, spice, mamba, alcohol, substance use, drug use, illicit drug, overdose, intoxication, intoxicated, drunk, high. Exclusion Criteria: * The patient record was outside of the indicated date range. * The patient record is not accessible via EMAS

What they're measuring

Attendances for alcohol and drug use

Timeframe: Full data set 23/03/2019 compared to 22/03/2021 to look at interruption (lockdown) in the time series.

Trial details

NCT IDNCT04474444

SponsorUniversity of Lincoln

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeOBSERVATIONAL

Primary completion2021-03-23

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