Brief Mobile Intervention for Prepartying

Heavy Drinking Clinical Trial

Official title:

Mobile Application Intervention Targeting the High Risk Drinking Practice of Prepartying

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04016766
• Other study ID #: R34AA025968
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 9, 2021
• Est. completion date: August 31, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: August 2021
• Source: RAND
• Contact: Eric R Pedersen
• Phone: 310-393-0411
• Email: ericp[@]rand.org
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The primary objective of the research study is to develop and test a prepartying (aka "pregaming") specific brief mobile app intervention that is intended to help college students reduce their prepartying drinking behavior. Such behavior has been identified as a major contributor to alcohol-related negative consequences among young people. The investigators will first develop the intervention content based on theory and research supporting mechanisms of change in brief interventions with college students and document normative drinking information from 500 college students for inclusion in the intervention content. Investigators will then beta test the intervention with a sample of 14 heavy drinking college students. Focus group feasibility and acceptability feedback will inform the final intervention content. Investigators will then pilot test the mobile-based intervention in a randomized controlled trial of 500 college students who preparty frequently (n = 250 intervention, n = 250 attention control) and determine the efficacy of the intervention on (1) preventing heavy consumption levels during and after prepartying and on (2) reducing students' global levels of heavy drinking and consequences one and three months post-intervention.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 500
• Est. completion date: August 31, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: May 31, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 24 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• full time undergraduate college student

• between the ages of 18 and 24

• report typically prepartying at least once per week

Exclusion Criteria:

• not meeting inclusion criteria

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Heavy Drinking

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Mobile app prepartying intervention
The intervention is comprised of a theoretically-informed and empirically-supported, brief, accessible, and personalized intervention to address prepartying drinking. the prepartying intervention app will be tailored toward an individual's personal goals, beliefs (perceptions, expectancies, self-efficacy), and behavior (protective strategies), and focus on the core components of brief interventions that have been cited as constructs that mediate the effects of multiple component intervention programs (e.g., correcting perceived norms, use of protective behavioral strategies, increased self-efficacy, challenging expectancies, feedback on blood alcohol level).

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Southern California	Los Angeles	California

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
RAND	University of Southern California

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Prepartying frequency	Number of days reported prepartying on the timeline followback	Past month (30 days)
Primary	Drinks during prepartying	Average number of drinks reported during prepartying on the timeline followback	Past month (30 days)
Primary	Drinking frequency	Number of days reported any drinking on the timeline followback	Past month (30 days)
Primary	Drinks on drinking days	Average number of drinks reported during drinking days on the timeline followback	Past month (30 days)
Primary	21-item Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire	Number of 21 assessed alcohol consequences experienced (yes/no). Yes responses are summed to yield a score on this measure. Higher scores indicate experience of a greater number of consequences. Scores range from 0 (no consequences) to 21 (experience of all 21 consequences)	Past month (30 days)