What is the Active Ingredient in Personalized Feedback Interventions for Problem Drinkers? A Randomized Controlled Trial

NCT ID: NCT01608763

Last Updated: 2014-12-09

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

804 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2012-05-31

Study Completion Date

2013-09-30

Brief Summary

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The major objective of this project is to conduct a randomized controlled trial comparing the impact of the normative feedback and other personalized feedback components of the Check Your Drinking (CYD) Internet-based intervention in the general population. Eligible problem drinking participants will be randomly assigned to one of four conditions in a 2 by 2 design - to receive just the normative feedback component of the CYD intervention, just the other personalized feedback information, to a no intervention control condition, or to receive the full CYD intervention. The no intervention control condition will not be sent any intervention materials but will instead be sent a list of the different components of the CYD feedback and will be asked to think about how useful they would find each of them. All participants will be followed-up at 3 months.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Problem Drinking

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

FACTORIAL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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Full personalized feedback

Participant provided with the full CYD personalized feedback summary.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Check Your Drinking (CYD) personalized feedback intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The CYD provides problem drinkers with a personalized summary of their drinking that compares his or her drinking with that of the general population. The CYD also provides an assessment of the severity of the person's drinking problem.

Only normative feedback

Participant provided with just the normative feedback component of the CYD personalized feedback summary.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Check Your Drinking (CYD) personalized feedback intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The CYD provides problem drinkers with a personalized summary of their drinking that compares his or her drinking with that of the general population. The CYD also provides an assessment of the severity of the person's drinking problem.

Just other personalized feedback

Participant provided with all the other personalized feedback components of the CYD intervention (i.e., no normative feedback).

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Check Your Drinking (CYD) personalized feedback intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The CYD provides problem drinkers with a personalized summary of their drinking that compares his or her drinking with that of the general population. The CYD also provides an assessment of the severity of the person's drinking problem.

No intervention control

Participant provided with a list describing the components of the CYD intervention but not provided any personalized feedback.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Check Your Drinking (CYD) personalized feedback intervention

The CYD provides problem drinkers with a personalized summary of their drinking that compares his or her drinking with that of the general population. The CYD also provides an assessment of the severity of the person's drinking problem.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* problem drinkers as measured by an AUDIT score of 8 or more

Exclusion Criteria

* none
Minimum Eligible Age

19 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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John Cunningham

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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John Cunningham, Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Locations

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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Site Status

Countries

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Canada

References

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Cunningham JA, Murphy M, Hendershot CS. Treatment dismantling pilot study to identify the active ingredients in personalized feedback interventions for hazardous alcohol use: randomized controlled trial. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2014 Dec 10;10(1):1. doi: 10.1186/s13722-014-0022-1.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 25539597 (View on PubMed)

Related Links

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http://www.camh.net/research

Information about research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching

Other Identifiers

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001/2012

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id