A Text Message Behavioral Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Consumption in Young Adults

Alcohol Consumption Clinical Trial

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Official title:

A Text Message Behavioral Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Consumption in Young Adults

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01688245
• Other study ID #: PRO12080344
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: September 14, 2012
• Last updated: May 26, 2015
• Start date: November 2012
• Est. completion date: May 2015

Study information

• Verified date: May 2015
• Source: University of Pittsburgh
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Investigators aim to test the effectiveness of a text-message-based behaivoral intervention in reducing binge drinking among young adults.

Description:

Alcohol consumption, especially in the form of heavy episodic drinking (bingeing), is common among young adults. Despite high rates of illness and injury associated with heavy episodic drinking, many young adults are not aware of the risks, few seek help for their drinking and many at-risk are not exposed to prevention-based intervention. Opportunistic screening in hospital Emergency Departments (EDs) tied to behavioral interventions has the potential to prevent future alcohol-related harm among young adults, but efficacy across outcomes has been mixed and large-scale implementation of prevention programs is low. Given the rapidly growing use of cell phone text-messaging (SMS) as a primary form of communication among young adults, SMS could be used to deliver health prevention interventions. We will recruit young adults identified in the ED with hazardous drinking behavior in a 3-arm randomized controlled trial to test the hypothesis that exposure to a 12-week SMS program will result in immediate (3-month) and lasting (6-, and 9-month) decreases in alcohol consumption.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 765
• Est. completion date: May 2015
• Est. primary completion date: November 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 25 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• AUDIT-C score 3 or more for women and 4 or more for men

Exclusion Criteria:

• Current treatment for psychiatric disease

• Any prior treatment for drug or alcohol use disorder

Study Design

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Alcohol Consumption
• Alcohol Drinking
• Alcohol Intoxication
• Alcoholic Intoxication

Intervention

Behavioral:
• SMS Assessments & Feedback
Weekly pre-weekend drinking plan and post-weekend drinking outcome assessments with personlaized feedback
• SMS Assessments
Weekly post-weekend drinking outcome assessments

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Mercy Hospital	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Pittsburgh

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Timeline Follow-back Procedure		30 Days	No
Secondary	Injury Behavior Checklist		3 months	No