Clinical trial NCT04453007: Timing Personalized Feedback After Alcohol Health Education
Official title: Timing Personalized Feedback After Alcohol Health Education
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE1
PHASE2
Conditions: College Student Drinking
Lead sponsor: Old Dominion University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
First posted: 2020-07-01
Enrollment: 195
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 24
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Heavy episodic alcohol use within the college student population is widespread, creating problems for student drinkers, their peers, and their institutions. Negative consequences from heavy alcohol use can be mild (e.g., hangovers, missed classes), to severe (e.g., assault, even death). Although online interventions targeting college student drinking reduce alcohol consumption and associated problems, they are not as effective as in-person interventions. Online interventions are cost-effective, offer privacy, reduce stigma, and may reach individuals who would otherwise not receive treatment.

In a recently completed randomized, controlled trial, an emailed booster with personalized feedback improved the efficacy of a popular online intervention (Braitman \& Henson, 2016). A second randomized, controlled trial confirmed efficacy for students of legal drinking age for a longer timeline (Braitman \& Lau-Barraco, 2018). Although promising, the booster incorporated in the study needs further empirical refinement.

The current project seeks to build on past progress by further developing and refining the booster. In particular, to identify the most efficacious timing for sending the feedback. The content will be similar across conditions, but will be disseminated at different times to identify the most impactful timeline. There will be 6 study conditions: those who receive the emailed feedback 2, 6, 10, or 14 weeks after baseline, or at all of those times, or not at all (control). Thus, the aim of the current study is to identify optimal timing for sending the tailored booster feedback via booster email.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Current college students at the sponsor institution at the time of enrollment
* Between the ages of 18 and 24
* Consumed at least standard drink of alcohol in the past 2 weeks

Exclusion Criteria:

* Under age of 18
* Over age of 24
* Not a college student
* Did not drink alcohol in the past 2 weeks

Primary outcomes:
measure: Alcohol Consumption
timeFrame: past 30 days
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Alcohol-Related Consequences
timeFrame: past 30 days
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Norfolk
country: United States
facility: Old Dominion University
state: Virginia
Study officials:
affiliation: Old Dominion University
name: Abby L Braitman, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Braitman AL, Lau-Barraco C. Personalized Boosters After a Computerized Intervention Targeting College Drinking: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2018 Sep;42(9):1735-1747. doi: 10.1111/acer.13815. Epub 2018 Jul 11.
citation: Braitman AL, Henson JM. Personalized boosters for a computerized intervention targeting college drinking: The influence of protective behavioral strategies. J Am Coll Health. 2016 Oct;64(7):509-19. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2016.1185725. Epub 2016 May 5.