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Evaluation of an Internet-based Intervention for Hazardous Drinkers

NCT ID: NCT01075685

Last Updated: 2010-11-10

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE2

Total Enrollment

1157 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2009-10-31

Study Completion Date

2010-01-31

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to determine whether the investigators internet-based intervention is effective to help hazardous drinkers reducing their alcohol consumption.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Hazardous Alcohol Consumption

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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Web-based alcohol programme

Participants could log on to their account and access the programme whenever they wanted to.

They received automated email reminders inviting them to use follow-up tools, especially the diary in order to register their alcohol intake on the previous week:

* 4 weeks after starting the programme, so that they would take advantage of the monitoring stage in case they had not spontaneously done so.
* 2 weeks later for 6-week follow-up.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

interactive online programme to reduce alcohol consumption

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The programme includes several steps:

* personalized feedback on alcohol consumption and related risks
* reviewing motivations and fears regarding drinking reduction
* analyse of drinking habits
* reduction goal setting
* follow-up tools (alcohol diary, craving scales, well-being scales)
* a final screen allowing participants to monitor their progress through graphs and automatically adapted comments.

Minimum information

Participants could log on to their account and access the programme whenever they wanted to. At 6 week follow-up they received an automated email reminder inviting them to use the diary in order to register their alcohol intake on the previous week.

Group Type PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Minimum information

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

This intervention includes:

* information about hazardous drinking
* an alcohol diary

Interventions

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interactive online programme to reduce alcohol consumption

The programme includes several steps:

* personalized feedback on alcohol consumption and related risks
* reviewing motivations and fears regarding drinking reduction
* analyse of drinking habits
* reduction goal setting
* follow-up tools (alcohol diary, craving scales, well-being scales)
* a final screen allowing participants to monitor their progress through graphs and automatically adapted comments.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Minimum information

This intervention includes:

* information about hazardous drinking
* an alcohol diary

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) score from 6 (female) or 7 (male) to 12
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Institut national de prevention et d'education pour la sante

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Institut national de prevention et d'education pour la sante

Principal Investigators

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Juliette Guillemont, MS

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Institut national de prevention et d'education pour la sante

Other Identifiers

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Evalcoometre

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id