Web-based Personalized Feedback for University Students

Risky Alcohol Consumption Clinical Trial

Official title:

Randomized Controlled Trial of a Brief Personalized Feedback Intervention in University Students

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01521078
• Other study ID #: CAMH#152/2011
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 26, 2012
• Last updated: May 24, 2012
• Start date: January 2012
• Est. completion date: May 2012

Study information

• Verified date: May 2012
• Source: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Canada: Health Canada
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Excessive alcohol consumption in university students continues for be a serious public health concern with a variety of negative consequences. There have been a number of different brief interventions developed to address this issue among university students. The current project will add to this literature by evaluating the use of a personalized feedback intervention (www.CheckYourDrinkingU.net; CYDU). Specifically, this trial will examine whether providing access to the CYDU will result in short-term reductions in drinking. This issue is important as use of these interventions is not a mandatory requirement for university students so the issue is whether making materials of this type available leads to any reductions in risky drinking. It is hypothesized that students provided access to the CYDU will display greater reductions in drinking at a six-week follow-up as compared to students who were not provided access to the CYDU.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 425
• Est. completion date: May 2012
• Est. primary completion date: April 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• AUDIT-C score of 4 or more at baseline

Exclusion Criteria:

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Investigator), Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Alcohol Drinking
• Risky Alcohol Consumption

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Check Your Drinking University version
The CYDU is an internet-based intervention that provides a personalized feedback summary which compares the participant's drinking to that of other university students. The CYDU is a modified version of the Check Your Drinking screener which has been validated in four separate randomized controlled trials. The primary modification of the CYDU is that the population norms used for comparison are those of university students (in the USA or Canada).

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	Centre for Addiction and Mental Health	Toronto	Ontario

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health	University of Houston

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test - Consumption scale (AUDIT-C scale)	AUDIT-C is a scale that is a composite of three items - frequency of alcohol use, drinks per drinking day, and frequency of 5+ drinking occasions. Scores ranges from 0 to 12 with higher scores indicating more severe alcohol problems.	6 weeks	No