Clinical trial NCT06774300: Evaluating Telehealth Delivery of Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students
Official title: Evaluating Telehealth Delivery of Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Alcohol Consumption
Keywords: alcohol
drinking
brief intervention
teleheath
Lead sponsor: University of Southern California
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: University of Houston
name: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
First posted: 2025-01-14
Enrollment: 600
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 26
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This research study will test the efficacy of a telehealth version of the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS), which is the gold standard prevention and intervention approach to target heavy alcohol use on college campuses across the United States.

Detailed description: In this study, the researchers will evaluate the efficacy of a tele-BASICS approach utilizing the ZOOM application compared to in-person BASICS and a lower threshold treatment as usual intervention. Three hundred mandated and 300 volunteer students who report hazardous drinking will be recruited from two large universities and randomly assigned to a condition (in-person BASICS, Tele-BASICS, or treatment as usual). Follow-up assessments will occur 1-, 3-, 6-, and 12-months post-baseline. The significance of this research lies in the potential to maximize access to the highest standard of care by establishing support for easier access without sacrificing any central features of the traditional BASICS intervention. In addition, many universities pragmatically adapted existing in-person interventions to remote-telehealth approaches in response to the COVID pandemic but now have no scientific basis for determining whether transitioning back to in-person approaches would be beneficial.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* between 18 and 26 years of age
* fluent in understanding English
* a registered student at one of the two intervention sites
* adequate internet capabilities to support video-conferencing
* access to a webcam, which is a standard features of most laptops, mobile devices, and desktops
* engage in binge drinking (i.e., 4 or more standard drinks in a sitting for women or 5 or more standard drinks in a sitting for men) at least once in the past month (for the volunteer sample only)
* experienced at least one negative alcohol-related consequence in the previous month (mandated students would meet this due to receiving an alcohol sanction)
* reports a score of 2 or higher on questions about a) interest in reducing their drinking, or b) interest in not increasing their drinking.

Exclusion Criteria:

* not meeting inclusion criteria or unwillingness to participate

Primary outcomes:
measure: Alcohol use
timeFrame: Assessed over the course of 12 months
measure: Alcohol-related consequences
timeFrame: Assessed over the course of 12 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Completion rates
timeFrame: One time assessment at end of program, after 1 session is completed 1 to 2 weeks post-baseline
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Houston
country: United States
facility: University of Houston
state: Texas
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Southern California
name: Eric R Pedersen, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: University of Houston
name: Clayton Neighbors, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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