Assignment of Alcohol Drinks to CIDI Drink Categories

Alcohol Drinking Clinical Trial

— AF-CIDI  

Official title:

Validation of the Assignment of Alcoholic Drinks to Predefined Drink Groups in the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03097354
• Other study ID #: AF-CIDI
• Status: Completed
• Start date: February 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: May 29, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: July 2020
• Source: Technische Universität Dresden
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Alcohol consumption is a prevalent behavior in Western societies, which may produce feelings of happiness and sociability, but also increases the risk of individual and societal detriments. A detailed knowledge about individual and region-specific alcohol consumption is crucial in many aspects of health systems, from general practitioner's diagnostic evaluation to decisions on health-care related fundings for prevention programs by legislative and executive councils.

The assessment of alcohol consumption often consists of questions like "What alcohol and in which amount did you drink lately?" which may be answered using a given list of prevalent alcoholic beverages. With this study, the investigators want to contribute to the understanding of psychological determinants in answering these questions. For example, it is not yet fully understood, to which extend and why certain beverages are assigned to one of several beverage groups. The investigators suspect that familiarity with specific beverages as well as product names may influence this assignment.

In this online survey, which is open to any German-speaking alcohol user no matter how often or how much alcohol one normally consumes, participants will be presented a list of common beverages (e.g. Cuba Libre, Prosecco, Weizen) and asked to assign these beverages to one of several beverage groups (e.g. whiskey, beer, sparkling wine).

Description:

The investigators expect that alcohol users will assign alcoholic drinks based on the product names, which might lead to erroneous assignments to predefined drink groups in certain occasions (e.g. "Bierlikör - beer liquor"). Furthermore, it is hypothesized that this tendency is smaller the more familiar a user is with the drink. Lastly, it is hypothesized that drinks with relatively low use prevalence in the general population, e.g. sweet liquors and cocktails, and drinks that include alcohol mixed with non-alcoholic beverages (e.g. "Radler", a beer-lemonade mix), are more often subject to non-concordant assignment across participants compared to highly-prevalent drinks (e.g. "Pilsner").

Thus, the investigators expect alcohol users to:

1. assign >90% of the presented beverages correctly,

2. differ from the expert assignments especially in drinks they are not familiar with,

3. differ from the expert assignments especially in drinks with ambiguous names,

4. do not differ in their assignments based on their gender and age group.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 174
• Est. completion date: May 29, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: May 29, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Lifetime-consumption of any of the 60 presented alcoholic beverages,

• Consumption of 12 or more alcoholic drinks past year,

• Ability to understand and accept the informed consent, to answer the presented questions and fill out all questionnaires

Exclusion Criteria:

• Multiple participation in this study

• not answering at least one presented questionnaire (60-beverages-questionnaire, assignment-questionnaire, AUDIT questionnaire, sociodemographic questionnaire)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Alcohol Drinking

Intervention

Other:
• no intervention/observational survey study design
no intervention/observational survey study design

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Germany	Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden	Dresden

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Technische Universität Dresden

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Germany, 

References & Publications (1)

Kuitunen-Paul S, Kuitunen PT, Kadric F, Lachenmeier DW, Colic J, Leonhardt L, Scheffel C. Assignment of alcoholic beverages in the Munich Composite International Diagnostic Interview (M-CIDI): An online survey among German students and non-students. Inter

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Socio-demographics	Gender, year of birth, German state/region, nationality, relationship status, education level, employment status,	at the baseline survey
Other	Risk status for Alcohol Use Disorder	Sum score of the 10-item AUDIT screening of the World Health Organization	at the baseline survey
Other	Risky alcohol consumption	Sum score of the first three AUDIT items, i.e. AUDIT-C score	at the baseline survey
Primary	Beverage assignment	Actual correctness of beverage assignment for each beverage (max. 60 beverages), either correct or incorrect	at the baseline survey
Secondary	Confidence	Self-report of confidence in the specific beverage assignment (Answer categories: sure; medium; barely)	at the baseline survey
Secondary	Familiarity	Self-report of familiarity with the specific drink type (Answer categories: frequently consumed (>3 times); tried (1-3 times)	at the baseline survey