What is the Active Ingredient in Personalized Feedback Interventions for Problem Drinkers? A Randomized Controlled Trial

Problem Drinking Clinical Trial

Official title:

What is the Active Ingredient in Personalized Feedback Interventions for Problem Drinkers? A Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01608763
• Other study ID #: 001/2012
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: May 28, 2012
• Last updated: December 5, 2014
• Start date: May 2012
• Est. completion date: September 2013

Study information

• Verified date: December 2014
• Source: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Canada: Health Canada
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The major objective of this project is to conduct a randomized controlled trial comparing the impact of the normative feedback and other personalized feedback components of the Check Your Drinking (CYD) Internet-based intervention in the general population. Eligible problem drinking participants will be randomly assigned to one of four conditions in a 2 by 2 design - to receive just the normative feedback component of the CYD intervention, just the other personalized feedback information, to a no intervention control condition, or to receive the full CYD intervention. The no intervention control condition will not be sent any intervention materials but will instead be sent a list of the different components of the CYD feedback and will be asked to think about how useful they would find each of them. All participants will be followed-up at 3 months.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 804
• Est. completion date: September 2013
• Est. primary completion date: June 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 19 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• problem drinkers as measured by an AUDIT score of 8 or more

Exclusion Criteria:

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Problem Drinking

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Check Your Drinking (CYD) personalized feedback intervention
The CYD provides problem drinkers with a personalized summary of their drinking that compares his or her drinking with that of the general population. The CYD also provides an assessment of the severity of the person's drinking problem.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	Centre for Addiction and Mental Health	Toronto	Ontario

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Drinks in a typical week	Number of drinks in a typical week	3 months	No
Primary	AUDIT-C score	Composite measure of three drinking items - frequency of drinking, drinks per drinking day, frequency of 5+ drinking days	3 months	No
Primary	Highest number of drinks on one occasion	Highest number of drinks on one occasion in the past 3 months	3 months	No

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