Comparing the Efficacy of Several Popular Online Interventions to Reduce Hazardous Alcohol Consumption

Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Alcohol Consumption

Treatments: Behavioral: Hello Sunday Morning; Behavioral: Check Your Drinking

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03060135

11/13/2016

Details and patient eligibility

About

There are a number of popular, freely available online interventions targeting hazardous alcohol consumption. Unfortunately, most have limited or no published evidence regarding their efficacy. Of particular interest is the intervention, 'Hello Sunday Morning.' The current project proposes to evaluate its' efficacy employing a RCT, using The Check Your Drinking intervention as an active comparator in the trial.

Participants will be recruited through Amazon's MTurk crowdsourcing platform. Potential participants identified as problem drinkers based on an initial survey will be invited to complete another survey in 6 months time. Those who agree to be followed-up will be assigned by chance to be asked versus not asked to access one of the interventions and then recontacted 6 months later to ask about their drinking and their impressions of the online intervention. The primary hypothesis to be tested is that participants receiving access to any of the online interventions will report a greater level of reduction in number of drinks in a typical week between the baseline survey and six-month follow-up as compared to participants in the control condition.

Enrollment: 878 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18 years of age or over
• A score of 8 or over on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT)
• Typically consumes 15 or more drinks per week,
• Willingness to complete a 6-month follow-up survey

Exclusion Criteria: None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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878 participants in 3 patient groups

No Intervention: Control

No Intervention group

Description:

A questionnaire that asks individuals what components of an online intervention they might find useful.

Check Your Drinking (CYD)

Active Comparator group

Description:

The CYD is a brief online intervention designed to provide personalized normative feedback aimed at motivating reductions in drinking

Treatment:

Behavioral: Check Your Drinking

Hello Sunday Morning

Experimental group

Description:

Internet based program designed to assess drinking patterns, and support self-determined goals for abstinence, by providing users with an online platform and community to discuss progress and goals.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Hello Sunday Morning