Multi-Component Breath Alcohol Intervention (BAMTECH)

Northeastern University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Alcohol Use; Drinking Behavior; Alcohol Drinking

Treatments: Behavioral: Lower tech facilitation; Behavioral: Motivational interview and psychoeducation on blood/breath alcohol concentration; Device: Alcohol-related mobile health technologies

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06124898

R34AA029224-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

IRB22-11-43

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is the first stage of a three-stage, NIH-funded study to develop and test initially a multi-modal intervention concerning blood/breath alcohol concentration for young adults. The multimodal intervention will be made up of brief telehealth counseling and psychoeducation and use of three mobile technologies to facilitate moderate drinking. In the first stage of the study, we will conduct formative research to obtain input from the study population, test initially the telehealth version of the brief counseling and psychoeducation and to develop a simple, "low tech" approach to coaching participants to use the three mobile technologies in typical drinking situations. Participation will last approximately one month.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Be between the ages of 18-25
• Be able to read English and complete study evaluations
• At least occasional heavy episodic drinking (i.e., 4 or more drinks for women and 5 or more drinks for men) over the prior 30 days
• Frequent consumption of at least one alcoholic drink during a minimum of 12 days out of the prior 30 so that subjects will have multiple opportunities to use the moderate drinking technologies during the intervention period.

Exclusion criteria

• Severe substance use disorder
• Be psychotic or otherwise severely psychiatrically disabled
• Report a history of a medical condition that would contraindicate the consumption of alcohol (e.g., liver disease, cardiac abnormality, pancreatitis, diabetes, neurological problems, and gastrointestinal disorders)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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24 participants in 1 patient group

Moderate drinking technologies with "lower tech" facilitation

Experimental group

Description:

Brief motivational-interviewing-based counseling followed by use of three moderate drinking technologies (breath alcohol device and app, blood alcohol content estimator app and self-texting procedure) with "lower tech" facilitation.

Treatment:

Device: Alcohol-related mobile health technologies

Behavioral: Motivational interview and psychoeducation on blood/breath alcohol concentration

Behavioral: Lower tech facilitation