Alcohol and Violence Prevention for College Students
Condition: Alcohol Drinking; Sexual Assault
MeSH terms: Alcohol Drinking
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      Heavy episodic drinking and sexual assault (SA) are problematic on college campuses. This
      project will adapt already developed interventions targeting alcohol use and SA to a mHealth
      format and involve content that incorporates federal guidelines and CDC recommendations to
      integrate both bystander intervention and risk reduction content with new innovative
      personalized content for each risk group (cis-gender heterosexual men, cis-gender
      heterosexual women, and sexual/gender minorities). Alpha testing with key stakeholders, an
      open pilot trial, and a randomized pilot trial will be conducted to establish acceptability
      and to estimate sample size for a larger randomized controlled trial.
    

Detailed description: 
      Specific aims are as follows:

      Aim 1 (Stage IA): Modify Alcohol and Sexual Assault Prevention (ASAP) content to an eHealth
      format to include personalized content for each risk group (1. cisgender heterosexual men; 2.
      cisgender heterosexual women; and 3. sexual and gender minorities).

      Aim 1a: Assess normative behaviors (n = 500) regarding alcohol use and SA for feedback.

      Aim 1b: Adapt and assess initial acceptability of a workbook version of the intervention
      content among key stakeholders (college administrators and students from each risk group [n=5
      from each group]).

      Aim 2 (Stage IB): Open Pilot Trial. Obtain usability of ASAP among 30 students who engage in
      HED (10 from each risk group) in an open pilot trial.

      Aim 3 (Stage IB): A pilot to assess effect size and variability for planning a randomized
      trial in the future. Randomize students who engage in HED to ASAP or control condition to
      observe preliminary effect sizes and estimate the variability using a 3-month follow-up.
      Sample size was determined to estimate the variability within a reasonable margin of error.
      This calculation also accounted the low base rates of SA and 20% attrition. This led to a
      sample size of 162 students (n=54 from each risk group).
    

Intervention name(s): Positive Change (+Change)
Intervention type(s): Behavioral
Intervention description(s): This is an integrated social norms-based personalized feedback intervention for college students targeting alcohol misuse and sexual assault. This intervention targets alcohol use, sexual assault victimization risk, sexual assault perpetration, and bystander intervention and is tailored by gender and sexual orientation.
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Intervention model description: Participants will receive an online intervention targeting alcohol misuse and sexual assault among college students. This will include a personalized normative feedback approach. In the first part of the study, there will be an open pilot (1 arm) and in the second part of the study there will be a control condition (2 arms - intervention + control)
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary purpose: Prevention