protocolSection identificationModule nctId: NCT06365125, orgStudyIdInfo id: 7313E, briefTitle: College Student Daily Life and Alcohol Use Study, statusModule overallStatus: RECRUITING, startDateStruct date: 2024-03-22, primaryCompletionDateStruct date: 2025-05-01, completionDateStruct date: 2025-05-01, studyFirstPostDateStruct date: 2024-04-15, lastUpdatePostDateStruct date: 2024-04-15, sponsorCollaboratorsModule leadSponsor name: Boston University Charles River Campus, class: OTHER, descriptionModule briefSummary: Heavy alcohol use among college students is associated with a range of negative consequences. However, college students rarely seek resources or treatment to change their alcohol use. Brief alcohol interventions (BAIs) have been developed as an alternative method to address heavy alcohol use among college students and show promise in reducing hazardous alcohol use in college students. Despite the established efficacy of BAIs, effects are often small and short-lived, and additional research is needed to investigate how BAIs can become more efficacious and endure for longer periods of time, particularly for computer-delivered interventions to improve accessibility and scalability of these interventions to a wider range of college students. Boosters or adjunctive components to BAIs have been suggested as a method to enhance the magnitude and duration of intervention effects. However, there remains a need to identify and test booster approaches that are both appealing and engaging to college students and effective in reducing heavy/hazardous alcohol use above and beyond the magnitude and duration seen by BAIs alone. The purpose of the study is to develop and test a novel, text-messaging booster as an adjunct to a current, evidence-based brief intervention, eCHECKUP TO GO, aimed at reducing college student heavy/hazardous alcohol use. Participants will complete baseline measures and will then be randomized to 1 of 3 conditions, stratified by sex at birth: 1) assessment only, 2) BAI only, and 3) Enhanced Intervention (BAI + four weeks of text messaging boosters). It is hypothesized that those randomized to the enhanced intervention condition will show a greater reduction in heavy/hazardous alcohol use at 3-month follow-up compared to the BAI and assessment only groups., conditionsModule conditions: Drinking, College, conditions: Drinking Heavy, designModule studyType: INTERVENTIONAL, phases: NA, designInfo allocation: RANDOMIZED, interventionModel: PARALLEL, primaryPurpose: PREVENTION, maskingInfo masking: SINGLE, whoMasked: PARTICIPANT, enrollmentInfo count: 129, type: ESTIMATED, armsInterventionsModule interventions name: eCHECKUP TO GO, interventions name: Text messaging boosters, outcomesModule primaryOutcomes measure: Heavy drinking episodes, primaryOutcomes measure: Alcohol-related negative consequences, eligibilityModule sex: ALL, minimumAge: 18 Years, maximumAge: 30 Years, stdAges: ADULT, contactsLocationsModule locations facility: Boston University Charles River Campus, status: RECRUITING, city: Boston, state: Massachusetts, zip: 02215, country: United States, contacts name: Bonnie Rowland, MA, role: CONTACT, phone: 617-906-6645, email: browland@bu.edu, contacts name: Tibor Palfai, PhD, role: CONTACT, email: palfai@bu.edu, contacts name: Bonnie Rowland, MA, role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, geoPoint lat: 42.35843, lon: -71.05977, hasResults: False