Study of Mobile Phone Delivered Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Consumption

Alcohol Abuse Clinical Trial

— mROAD  

Official title:

Mobilizing to Reduce Overuse of Alcohol in Emergency Department Patients

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02158949
• Other study ID #: HS-14-00335
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 1, 2014
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2014

Study information

• Verified date: July 2020
• Source: University of Southern California
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

In this study, the investigators will be developing and testing a mobile phone text message intervention to reduce alcohol use for people at risk of alcohol dependence. The investigators hypothesize that this intervention will be acceptable to participants, and that they will stay in the intervention until it's one week completion.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 48
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2014
• Est. primary completion date: July 15, 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• AUDIT score 15-20

• have a mobile phone capable of receiving text messages

Exclusion Criteria:

• age <18

• unable to consent

• language other than English or Spanish

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Alcohol Abuse
• Alcoholism

Intervention

Behavioral:
• mROAD

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	LAC+USC Medicine Center Emergency Department	Los Angeles	California

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Southern California

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Acceptability of Intervention to Patient	percentage of patients that do not opt out of messages prior to 1 week completion	1 week
Secondary	Number of Participants Completed Assessment at 1 Month	Feasibility of follow up of urban low-income at risk drinkers by phone defined as number of patients can be contacted at one months to complete assessment of alcohol use	1 month
Secondary	Change in Days Drinking Alcohol	patients reported number of days drinking any alcohol in prior 30 days, baseline report minus 1 month follow up report	1 month
Secondary	Change in Days Drinking Heavily in 30 Days	patients reported number of heavy drinking days in prior 30 days (3 or more standard sized drinks per episode for women and 4 or more standard sized drinks per episode for men), baseline report minus 1 month follow up report	1 month
Secondary	Change in Motivation to Change Score	Participants reported desire to change via the Change Questionnaire applied to risky alcohol use.[1] The Change questionnaire has a Cronbach's alpha of 0.86 when applied to alcohol use.[2] Minimum score is 0 (low motivation to change) to maximum 120 (high motivation to change).; Miller WR, Johnson WR. A natural language screening measure for motivation to change. Addictive behaviors. 2008;33(9):1177-1182.; Miller WR, Johnson WR. A natural language screening measure for motivation to change. Addictive Behaviors. 2008;33(9):1177-1182.	1 month