Web-based Personalized Feedback for University Students

Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Risky Alcohol Consumption

Treatments: Behavioral: Check Your Drinking University version

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01521078

CAMH#152/2011

Details and patient eligibility

About

Excessive alcohol consumption in university students continues for be a serious public health concern with a variety of negative consequences. There have been a number of different brief interventions developed to address this issue among university students. The current project will add to this literature by evaluating the use of a personalized feedback intervention (www.CheckYourDrinkingU.net; CYDU). Specifically, this trial will examine whether providing access to the CYDU will result in short-term reductions in drinking. This issue is important as use of these interventions is not a mandatory requirement for university students so the issue is whether making materials of this type available leads to any reductions in risky drinking. It is hypothesized that students provided access to the CYDU will display greater reductions in drinking at a six-week follow-up as compared to students who were not provided access to the CYDU.

Enrollment: 425 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• AUDIT-C score of 4 or more at baseline

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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425 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Provided access to the Check Your Drinking University version (CYDU).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Check Your Drinking University version

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No invention control group