Clinical trial NCT05608109: A Social Media Personalized Normative Feedback Intervention for Heavy Drinking College Students
Official title: Project Smash (Social Media Alcohol Session for Health)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Alcohol Consumption
Keywords: social media
Lead sponsor: Duquesne University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
First posted: 2022-11-08
Enrollment: 401
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 study seeks to evaluate the unique and synergistic efficacy of social media-specific personalized normative feedback targeting the reduction of alcohol use among heavy-drinking college students who post alcohol-related content on social media.

Hypothesis: Alcohol personalized normative feedback, social media-specific personalized normative feedback, and the Alcohol personalized normative feedback+ social media-specific personalized normative feedback conditions will be more effective in reducing drinking than the attention control condition.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* College students recruited across three universities: Duquesne University, Miami University, and University of Houston (DU, MU, UH)
* Undergraduate college students 18 to 26 years old
* Meet heavy drinking (4+ drinks in one sitting for individuals assigned female at birth, 5+ drinks in one sitting for individuals assigned male at birth in the past month) and ARC (alcohol-related content) posting criteria (2+ ARC posts in the last 30 days for individuals assigned female at birth, 1+ for individuals assigned male at birth, on either Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, or TikTok)

Exclusion Criteria:

* Pregnant or of another protected population

Primary outcomes:
measure: Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire (B-YAACQ) - change is being assessed
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 month follow-up, 6 month follow-up
measure: Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) - change is being assessed
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 month follow-up, 6 month follow-up
measure: Rutgers Alcohol Problems Index (RAPI) -change is being assessed
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 month follow-up, 6 month follow-up
measure: Quantity/Frequency/Peak Index (QFI) -change is being assessed
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 month follow-up, 6 month follow-up
measure: Daily Drinking Questionnaire (DDQ) -change is being assessed
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 month follow-up, 6 month follow-up
measure: Drinking Norms Rating Form (DNRF) -change is being assessed
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 month follow-up, 6 month follow-up
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Oxford
country: United States
facility: Miami University
state: Ohio
city: Houston
country: United States
facility: University of Houston
state: Pennsylvania
city: Pittsburgh
country: United States
facility: Duquesne University
state: Pennsylvania
Study officials:
affiliation: Duquesne University
name: Mai-Ly N Steers, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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