Biomarker Feedback Intervention

The Pennsylvania State University (PENNSTATE)

Status: Begins enrollment in 1 month

Conditions: College Student Drinking; High Risk Drinking

Treatments: Behavioral: eCHECKUPTOGO + brief personalized alcohol biomarker feedback intervention (eCTG + TAC); Behavioral: eCHECKUP TO GO (eCTG)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07307326

STUDY00027939

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of the study is to examine alcohol use behaviors of young adults through the use of testing the feasibility of adding an innovative brief personalized alcohol biomarker feedback component (TAC feedback) to an existing efficacious personalized feedback intervention, eCHECKUP TO GO (eCTG), and how (if at all) the intervention impacts drinking behaviors in high-risk college students. The study will conduct a feasibility assessment of the TAC feedback component, and will also assess the effects of the eCTG + TAC at 6-months post-baseline relative to an eCTG only group.

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 23 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Between the ages of 18-23 at enrollment
• Endorse drinking 4+/5+ (women/men) on a typical Friday or Saturday in the past 3-months
• Report at least 1 alcohol-induced blackout in the past 3-months
• Willing to wear a TAC sensor for 14 days at Waves 1 and 2

Exclusion criteria

• Younger than 18 at baseline
• Not fluent in English
• No Internet access

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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150 participants in 2 patient groups

eCHECKUP TO GO (eCTG)

Experimental group

Description:

A brief, web-based program designed by San Diego State University to reduce high-risk drinking by providing personalized normative feedback regarding alcohol use, risk factors, and risks associated with drinking and accurate information about alcohol

Treatment:

Behavioral: eCHECKUP TO GO (eCTG)

eCHECKUPTOGO + brief personalized biomarker feedback intervention (eCTG + TAC)

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will receive the eCHECKUPTOGO in addition to the transdermal alcohol concentration (TAC) personalized feedback. The TAC is a brief individually delivered intervention based on the principles of Motivational Interviewing and focuses on increasing students' motivation to reduce harmful drinking by drinking in a safer, less risky manner. Participants will receive information on their drinking (both from the TAC sensor and daily diary data). Participants will be asked about drinking events during the past 2 weeks (how reflective they were of typical patterns and if a night stood out as particularly negative). Students will receive information and visual representations about TAC rise rates and peaks, and then be shown how their drinking during the past 2 weeks maps onto those visuals.

Treatment:

Behavioral: eCHECKUPTOGO + brief personalized alcohol biomarker feedback intervention (eCTG + TAC)