Personalized Drinking Feedback Interventions

University of Missouri (MU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Alcohol Abuse

Treatments: Behavioral: Personalized Drinking Feedback; Behavioral: Education-Only

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01211353

1R21AA020180-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this research is to better understand how to reduce hazardous drinking among OEF/OIF veterans by assessing the effectiveness of a low-cost, computer-delivered preventative program.

Full description

Excessive drinking among OEF/OIF veterans represents an important public health problem for both the veterans themselves and those with whom they interact. The objective of this research is to better understand how to reduce hazardous drinking among this group by assessing the effectiveness of a low-cost, computer-delivered preventative program. It is hypothesized that an intervention that provides personalized feedback about drinking behaviors will be more effective than an education-only control condition at reducing alcohol use and negative alcohol-related consequences.

Enrollment: 325 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• OEF/OIF Veteran

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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325 participants in 2 patient groups

Personalized Drinking Feedback

Experimental group

Description:

Personalized feedback on drinking behaviors

Treatment:

Behavioral: Personalized Drinking Feedback

Education-Only

Active Comparator group

Description:

Educational information about alcohol

Treatment:

Behavioral: Education-Only