Testing the Efficacy of an Online Alcohol Intervention in a Workplace Setting

University of Oslo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Harmful Drinking; Hazardous Drinking

Treatments: Behavioral: Online screening and feedback; Behavioral: Online multi session follow-up; Behavioral: Online booklet.

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01931618

142956 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

SERAF-BALANCE-2

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to test - in a workplace setting - if an online multi-session alcohol intervention improves treatment effect over and above a single session screening with feedback.

Hypothesis: automated online multi-session follow-up improves the effect on alcohol consumption over and above a single session screening

Full description

Setting: Online study among Norwegian employees.

Participants: At-risk drinkers among employees in a select group of norwegian workplaces is recruited through an e-mail to their job e-mail account, and advertisements on the intranet of their organization.

Design: Randomized controlled trial (RCT). Subjects in both conditions receives a single session screening procedure including individualized normative feedback. The control group receives an online booklet about the effects of alcohol. The treatment group receives the multi session follow up program "Balance".

Enrollment: 85 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• hazardous or harmful drinking (i.e., a FAST-score of 3 or more)

Exclusion criteria

• underage (<18)
• not provided a valid e-mail address
• not provided a valid (Norwegian) mobile phone number

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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85 participants in 2 patient groups

Usual care

Active Comparator group

Description:

Receives two interventions: 1. Online screening and feedback. 2. Online booklet.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Online booklet.

Behavioral: Online screening and feedback

Extended follow-up

Experimental group

Description:

Receives two interventions: 1. Online screening and feedback. 2. Online multi session follow-up.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Online multi session follow-up

Behavioral: Online screening and feedback