Study of Mobile Phone Delivered Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Consumption (mROAD)

University of Southern California

Status: Completed

Conditions: Alcohol Abuse

Treatments: Behavioral: mROAD

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02158949

HS-14-00335

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this study, the investigators will be developing and testing a mobile phone text message intervention to reduce alcohol use for people at risk of alcohol dependence. The investigators hypothesize that this intervention will be acceptable to participants, and that they will stay in the intervention until it's one week completion.

Enrollment: 48 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• AUDIT score 15-20
• have a mobile phone capable of receiving text messages

Exclusion criteria

• age <18
• unable to consent
• language other than English or Spanish

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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48 participants in 2 patient groups

mROAD

Experimental group

Description:

1 week of twice daily text messages modeled after SBIRT interventions

Treatment:

Behavioral: mROAD

Usual Care

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual care in ED