Promoting Responsible Drinking: An Internet-based, Interactive Computer Tailored Intervention

Pro-Change Behavior Systems

Status: Completed

Conditions: Excessive Drinking; Regular Heavy AOD Use

Treatments: Behavioral: Treatment Group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02126163

2R44AA01733-02

Details and patient eligibility

About

Excessive alcohol use is associated with a range of serious and costly health, social, and economic consequences at the individual and societal level. This program of research serves as a venue by which to produce and test an innovative, science-based, and cost-effective means to intervene in a private, convenient, and individualized way with employed adults who report non-dependent levels of risky drinking. Responsible Drinking offers computer-tailored intervention sessions directed at increasing readiness to limit drinking to national guidelines for low-risk drinking and a complementary dynamic web portal providing additional information, activities, and strategies designed to activate and reinforce the change process. The primary objective is to complete and enhance the development of Responsible Drinking and test it in an effectiveness trial. In Phase II the program capabilities and innovation will expand to integrate the e-Health components (CTI and e-Workbook) with m-Health (mobile health) technologies. The e-Health components will be enhanced to offer a more interactive and engaging user experience. In addition, m-Health technologies (text messaging and mobile device browsing optimization) will be integrated to support engagement in the program and flexible delivery options. 996 employed adults will be recruited to participate in the randomized trial. The treatment group will receive three intervention sessions during the course of six months and group differences on a number of outcomes will be evaluated at 12 and 18 month follow-up assessments.

Enrollment: 1,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. English speaking
2. 21 years of age or older
3. not enrolled full-time in college
4. employed part or full time
5. not pregnant
6. consumed alcohol in the past 30 days
7. exceeded the NIAAA gender-specific low-risk drinking guidelines in the last 30 days
8. not currently interested in or ever having received treatment for substance abuse or dependence
9. not ever having received a physician recommendation to avoid or reduce alcohol use
10. scoring 9 or less on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT-C).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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1,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment Group

Experimental group

Description:

The treatment group will receive three interactive Computer Tailored Intervention (CTI) sessions during the course of six months, which will include tailored feedback based on the user's responses, and two assessment only follow-up sessions at twelve and eighteen months.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Treatment Group

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will receive four assessment only sessions during 18 months.