Brief Mobile Intervention for Prepartying

RanD

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Heavy Drinking

Treatments: Behavioral: Mobile app prepartying intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04016766

R34AA025968

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary objective of the research study is to develop and test a prepartying (aka "pregaming") specific brief mobile app intervention that is intended to help college students reduce their prepartying drinking behavior. Such behavior has been identified as a major contributor to alcohol-related negative consequences among young people. The investigators will first develop the intervention content based on theory and research supporting mechanisms of change in brief interventions with college students and document normative drinking information from 500 college students for inclusion in the intervention content. Investigators will then beta test the intervention with a sample of 14 heavy drinking college students. Focus group feasibility and acceptability feedback will inform the final intervention content. Investigators will then pilot test the mobile-based intervention in a randomized controlled trial of 500 college students who preparty frequently (n = 250 intervention, n = 250 attention control) and determine the efficacy of the intervention on (1) preventing heavy consumption levels during and after prepartying and on (2) reducing students' global levels of heavy drinking and consequences one and three months post-intervention.

Enrollment: 500 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 24 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• full time undergraduate college student
• between the ages of 18 and 24
• report typically prepartying at least once per week

Exclusion criteria

• not meeting inclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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500 participants in 2 patient groups

Prepartying mobile app intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Mobile app intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mobile app prepartying intervention

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Control participants receive a personalized attention control task (i.e., listing and ranking favorite movies, music, and books), which controls for the time needed by the intervention group to view the intervention material.