Brief Religious Alcohol Intervention

Heavy Drinking Clinical Trial

— BRAI  

Official title:

Brief Religious Alcohol Intervention

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04075773
• Other study ID #: STUDY00001734
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 4, 2019
• Est. completion date: August 11, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: August 2020
• Source: University of Houston
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study is a trial of a brief alcohol intervention, a brief expressive writing intervention that incorporates religious identity.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 203
• Est. completion date: August 11, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: August 11, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 29 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18 to 29 years old

• Have had a binge episode (4/5 drinks on one occasion for women/men) at least once in the past month

• UH students

Exclusion Criteria:

• Participants who are currently enrolled in treatment for alcohol or other substances

• Participants who have been diagnosed with and/or treated for verbal learning disabilities

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Heavy Drinking

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Expressive Writing
The participants are asked to write for a period of time about specific concepts so that they think carefully and cognitively process the information they are generating.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Houston Psychology Department	Houston	Texas

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Houston

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in the Timeline Follow-Back one month following the intervention	Participants report number of drinks consumed each day over the last month.	It will be assessed before the intervention and one month following the intervention.
Secondary	Chang in the Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire one month following the intervention	Participants respond to a list of common consequences of alcohol use indicating whether or not they have experienced them. The scale name is the "Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire" (Read, Kahler, Strong, & Colder, 2006). The construct of interest measured by this scale is the alcohol problems experienced by the participant. The total score is used, and the range for the total score is 0 to 48.	It will be assessed before the intervention and one month following the intervention.