The Role of Agency and Threat-Immediacy in Interactive Digital Narrative Fear Appeals

Excessive Drinking Clinical Trial

Official title: The Role of Agency and Threat-Immediacy in Interactive Digital Narrative Fear Appeals for the Prevention of Excessive Alcohol Use: Randomized Controlled Trial

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

Aims:

The first aim of the study was to assess the effect of agency, i.e. the perception of making meaningful decisions, in an interactive digital narrative fear appeal on self-efficacy beliefs concerning the ability to reduce alcohol intake among college students. Second, we assessed whether the communicated timeframe (short-term / long-term) of the threat presented in the narrative moderates the effect of agency on self-efficacy. Lastly, to validate the effect of the intervention on behavioural outcomes we assesed whether self-efficacy has an effect on behavioural intention measures.

The study was a 2 (agency: low / high) x 2 (time-frame: immediate / distant) between-subjects online experiment.

Clinical Trial Description

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Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Excessive Drinking

• NCT number: NCT05321238
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Tilburg University
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 26, 2020
• Completion date: December 18, 2020