Eliciting Perceived Norms About Substance Use

Alcohol Drinking Clinical Trial

Official title: Eliciting Perceived Norms About Substance Use

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Survey experiment to elicit perceived norms about substance use

Clinical Trial Description

Health behaviors and health risk behaviors are known to be associated with the extent to which one perceives these behaviors as normative. The canonical example of this phenomenon is taken from the U.S. literature, which has robustly shown that undergraduate students on college campuses tend to drink more heavily and frequently if they believe their classmates drink heavily and frequently, irrespective of their classmates' actual levels and frequency of use. However, there remains little systematic understanding about the best ways to elicit these perceived norms through survey-based research studies. This randomized survey experiment compares different ways of eliciting perceived norms. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Alcohol Drinking
• Tobacco Use

• NCT number: NCT04833972
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Massachusetts General Hospital
• Contact: Alexander C Tsai, MD
• Phone: 617-724-1120
• Email: actsai@partners.org
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 10, 2021
• Completion date: December 31, 2021