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An Electronic Brief Alcohol Intervention for Women Attending a Breast Screening Service (Health4Her)

T

Turning Point

Status

Completed

Conditions

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Alcohol Drinking

Treatments

Behavioral: Brief alcohol intervention (Health4Her-Automated)
Behavioral: Lifestyle health promotion

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06019442
LR22-071-91112

Details and patient eligibility

About

Alcohol is a major modifiable risk factor for female breast cancer; yet, awareness of this risk remains surprisingly low and is not systematically addressed in healthcare settings. This study aim to test the effectiveness of a co-designed, automated brief alcohol intervention (Health4Her-Automated) in reducing women's drinking intentions, improving alcohol literacy, and reducing consumption.

Full description

Alcohol is a major modifiable risk factor for female breast cancer, even in very low amounts. In Australia, alcohol consumption accounts for 6.6 per cent of cases in post-menopausal women, and 18 per cent of breast cancer deaths. Yet, awareness of this risk remains low and is not systematically addressed in healthcare settings. Embedding a brief alcohol intervention within lifestyle information offered to all women attending breast screening provides the opportunity to address harmful drinking in a discrete, non-judgmental way, to prevent alcohol-attributable breast cancer among this at-risk population.

Brief alcohol interventions are short, single-session programs typically offered in general practice settings to gather information on a person's alcohol consumption and, in a non confrontational way, provide strategies and motivate change to reduce consumption and related risk of harm. An automated brief alcohol intervention, self-completed on a device such as an iPad, is a low-cost, labour- and time-efficient approach that overcomes many of the issues of providing intervention within busy healthcare environments.

Building on the previous pilot trial of a prototype brief e-health intervention (which included alcohol-related questions asked by a researcher, and an animation viewed on an iPad that was activated by the researcher), the aim of the current study is to test the effectiveness of a co-designed, automated brief alcohol intervention (Health4Her-Automated) in reducing women's drinking intentions, improving alcohol literacy, and reducing consumption.

Enrollment

143 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

40+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Female
  • 40+ years of age
  • Attending routine breast screening
  • With or without a breast cancer history
  • Reporting any level of alcohol consumption

Exclusion criteria

  • Not able to read or comprehend English to enable participation
  • No access to a computer, tablet or smartphone to complete follow-up assessment
  • Women who are pregnant (also an exclusion from breast screening)
  • Participation in the pilot Health4Her trial

Trial design

Primary purpose

Other

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Double Blind

143 participants in 2 patient groups

Brief alcohol intervention (Health4Her-Automated) + lifestyle health promotion
Experimental group
Description:
The intervention arm will receive: * brief alcohol intervention * lifestyle health promotion focused on physical activity and maintaining a healthy weight for reducing breast cancer risk. Participants will receive an iPad and earphones to self-complete the intervention. Alcohol and lifestyle information will be delivered by way of an animation on an iPad, and self-completed activities to reinforce intervention content.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Lifestyle health promotion
Behavioral: Brief alcohol intervention (Health4Her-Automated)
Lifestyle health promotion
Other group
Description:
The control arm will receive: * lifestyle health promotion focused on physical activity and maintaining a healthy weight for reducing breast cancer risk. Participants will receive an iPad and earphones to self-complete the control intervention. Lifestyle information will be delivered by way of an animation on an iPad, and a self-completed activity to reinforce intervention content.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Lifestyle health promotion

Trial documents
2

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Dan I Lubman, PhD; Jasmin Grigg, PhD

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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