Brief Religious Alcohol Intervention (BRAI)

University of Houston

Status: Completed

Conditions: Heavy Drinking

Treatments: Behavioral: Expressive Writing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04075773

STUDY00001734

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is a trial of a brief alcohol intervention, a brief expressive writing intervention that incorporates religious identity.

Enrollment: 203 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 29 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 to 29 years old
• Have had a binge episode (4/5 drinks on one occasion for women/men) at least once in the past month
• UH students

Exclusion criteria

• Participants who are currently enrolled in treatment for alcohol or other substances
• Participants who have been diagnosed with and/or treated for verbal learning disabilities

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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203 participants in 2 patient groups

Religious Prompt

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be provided a writing prompt that describes their self-reported drinking, then asks them to write for 5 to 10 minutes about how that drinking is associated with their self-reported religious identity. After completing that writing assignment, participants will be shown their response, and asked to spend 5 to 10 minutes describing how their drinking behaviors in the next month might change.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Expressive Writing

Age Prompt

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Participants will be provided a writing prompt that describes their self-reported drinking, then asks them to write for 5 to 10 minutes about how that drinking is associated with their self-reported age. After completing that writing assignment, participants will be shown their response, and asked to spend 5 to 10 minutes describing how their drinking behaviors in the next month might change.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Expressive Writing