Alcohol and Health: Personalized Feedback

Alcohol Drinking Clinical Trial

Official title:

Alcohol and Health: Personalized Feedback

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03337438
• Other study ID #: AS1770
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 22, 2017
• Est. completion date: October 29, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: October 2019
• Source: Oklahoma State University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Heavy episodic drinking (HED) among college students remains a concern within the U.S., as rates of HED are still high in this population. Though a variety of brief motivational interventions for alcohol use in college students have demonstrated significant effects, these effects are often small and not consistently maintained over time. Personalized feedback interventions (PFIs) are a particularly promising approach, as these are often acceptable to college students, as well as low-cost, and easy to disseminate. Though presentation of interperson discrepancy via descriptive and injunctive norms has shown consistent effects within PFIs and received much attention in the literature, intraperson, or ideal-actual self discrepancies, has largely been ignored. Drawing from cognitive dissonance theory, self-regulation theory, and motivational interviewing, the current study aims to evaluate the efficacy of an alcohol PFI with a values component to incorporate ideal-self discrepancy into a typical intervention.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 320
• Est. completion date: October 29, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: October 29, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Must be at least 18 years of age

• Must be able to speak and read English

• Must report consuming alcohol in a typical week over the past month

Exclusion Criteria:

• Must not deny drinking within the past month

• Non-English speaking

• Under the age of 18

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Alcohol Consumption, Youth
• Alcohol Drinking
• Underage Drinking

Intervention

Other:
• Personalized Feedback Intervention with Values
The PFI with values will include information commonly included in personalized feedback interventions for alcohol use, such as norms information and drinking profile, as well as feedback on three of the assessed values that are highly important to the participant.
• Personalized Feedback Intervention Traditional
This PFI will include information on drinking profile, norms, behavioral strategies used while drinking, and practical costs related to drinking reframed as monetary values and caloric values.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	North Murray Hall Oklahoma State University	Stillwater	Oklahoma

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Oklahoma State University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Alcohol consumption	measured by drinks per week	one-month post baseline
Primary	Alcohol consequences	measured by the BYAACQ to determine number of consequences experienced in the past month post-baseline	one month post-baseline
Primary	Value-behavior discrepancy for values related to alcohol use	Measured by the VLQ-A to measure change in behavioral consistency with values specifically related to alcohol use one month post-baseline	one month post-baseline
Secondary	Perceptions of norms	Perceptions of descriptive norms will be more accurate one month post-baseline	one month post-baseline
Secondary	Trait mindfulness	Levels of mindfulness as measured by the FFMQ will be measured at both time points	one month post-baseline