Motivating Campus Change Study (MC2)

University of Washington

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Drinking Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Sequential Personalized Feedback Intervention Delivery; Behavioral: Text Message Boosters; Behavioral: Simultaneous Personalized Feedback Intervention Delivery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT04030325

STUDY00007499

R37AA012547-11A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study evaluates the relative merit of a multi-component PFI presented in the traditional simultaneous delivery (i.e., all components at once) versus a sequential format, wherein individual PFI components are delivered one at a time over several weeks to minimize time and attention demands for each component.

Full description

This study builds upon the latest alcohol intervention literature to develop and test the next wave of personalized feedback interventions (PFIs) to address harmful alcohol use among college students. The purpose of this research is to determine optimal configuration of PFIs to take advantage of the clarity and initial impact of single-component PFIs and greater effect size and duration of personalized multi-component PFIs. The Investigators seek to increase and evaluate engagement with the PFI and text-message materials and boost innovation of both content and process of the intervention. In addition to PFI content and delivery, the investigators will use qualitative and quantitative methods to determine personal relevance of the chosen high-risk events among a sample of students who engage in heavy episodic drinking to better understand duration of PFI effects impacted by fluctuations in drinking associated with high-risk events. Prior interventions have targeted drinking in general or a single high-risk drinking event (e.g., Spring Break), but have not targeted both general and event-specific drinking together. These enhanced intervention effects, could have a significant impact on risks associated with college student drinking, and can be rapidly disseminated and implemented on campuses nationwide to address the public health problem posed by heavy episodic drinking among college students.

Enrollment: 1,012 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 24 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• at least 1 heavy episodic drinking episode in the past month
• at least 3 negative alcohol related consequences on Rutgers Alcohol Problem Index/ Young Adult Alcohol Problems Screening Test in the past 3 months for cohort 1
• at least 2 negative alcohol related consequences on Rutgers Alcohol Problem Index/ Young Adult Alcohol Problems Screening Test in the past month for cohort 2 - 5
• Indicate they own a cell phone with text message capabilities and consent to receiving text messages

Exclusion criteria

• Doesn't meet inclusion criteria
• Unwillingness to participate
• Failure to provide consent
• Plan to travel internationally in the next 12 months (for intervention text purposes)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,012 participants in 5 patient groups

Sequential Post Feedback Information Delivery

Experimental group

Description:

Participants receive the first component of their PFI immediately following Baseline and subsequently receive 1 component each week until they receive all 4 components. Participants will complete a Post Feedback Survey and a 3 week follow back and Knowledge assessment.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sequential Personalized Feedback Intervention Delivery

Sequential Post Feedback Information Delivery +Text Messages

Experimental group

Description:

Participants receive the first component of their PFI immediately following Baseline and subsequently receive 1 component each week until they receive all 4 components. Participants will complete a Post Feedback Survey and a 3 week follow back and Knowledge assessment. Additionally, participants receive the Text Message Booster Component in the days before and during the high risk drinking event celebration(s).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Text Message Boosters

Behavioral: Sequential Personalized Feedback Intervention Delivery

Simultaneous Post Feedback Information Delivery

Experimental group

Description:

Participants receive all 4 feedback components immediately after providing consent to the Pilot Feasibility Study following the Screening/Baseline Survey. Participants complete a brief 10 minute Post-Feedback Survey and a 3 Week Followup Survey to assess knowledge of the intervention feedback content.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Simultaneous Personalized Feedback Intervention Delivery

Simultaneous Post Feedback Information Delivery +Text Messages

Experimental group

Description:

Participants receive all 4 feedback components immediately after providing consent to the Pilot Feasibility Study following the Screening/Baseline Survey. Participants complete a brief 10 minute Post-Feedback Survey and a 3 Week Followup Survey to assess knowledge of the intervention feedback content. Additionally, participants receive the Text Message Booster Component in the days before and during the high risk drinking event celebration(s).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Simultaneous Personalized Feedback Intervention Delivery

Behavioral: Text Message Boosters

Assessment Only Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants complete baseline survey, longitudinal follow up assessments, and pre- and post- event surveys.