A Text Message Behavioral Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Consumption in Young Adults

NCT ID: NCT01688245

Last Updated: 2015-05-27

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

765 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2012-11-30

Study Completion Date

2015-05-31

Brief Summary

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Investigators aim to test the effectiveness of a text-message-based behaivoral intervention in reducing binge drinking among young adults.

Detailed Description

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Alcohol consumption, especially in the form of heavy episodic drinking (bingeing), is common among young adults. Despite high rates of illness and injury associated with heavy episodic drinking, many young adults are not aware of the risks, few seek help for their drinking and many at-risk are not exposed to prevention-based intervention. Opportunistic screening in hospital Emergency Departments (EDs) tied to behavioral interventions has the potential to prevent future alcohol-related harm among young adults, but efficacy across outcomes has been mixed and large-scale implementation of prevention programs is low. Given the rapidly growing use of cell phone text-messaging (SMS) as a primary form of communication among young adults, SMS could be used to deliver health prevention interventions. We will recruit young adults identified in the ED with hazardous drinking behavior in a 3-arm randomized controlled trial to test the hypothesis that exposure to a 12-week SMS program will result in immediate (3-month) and lasting (6-, and 9-month) decreases in alcohol consumption.

Conditions

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Alcohol Consumption Alcohol Intoxication

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Control

No SMS dialog

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

SMS Assessments

Weekly post-weekend drinking outcome assessments

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

SMS Assessments

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Weekly post-weekend drinking outcome assessments

SMS Assessments & Feedback

Weekly pre-weekend drinking intention \& post-weekend drinking outcome assessments with personalized feedback and harm-reduction support

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

SMS Assessments & Feedback

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Weekly pre-weekend drinking plan and post-weekend drinking outcome assessments with personlaized feedback

Interventions

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SMS Assessments & Feedback

Weekly pre-weekend drinking plan and post-weekend drinking outcome assessments with personlaized feedback

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

SMS Assessments

Weekly post-weekend drinking outcome assessments

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* AUDIT-C score 3 or more for women and 4 or more for men

Exclusion Criteria

* Current treatment for psychiatric disease
* Any prior treatment for drug or alcohol use disorder
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

25 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Pittsburgh

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Brian P Suffoletto, MD MS

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Pittsburgh

Locations

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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Mercy Hospital

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Suffoletto B, Kristan J, Chung T, Jeong K, Fabio A, Monti P, Clark DB. An Interactive Text Message Intervention to Reduce Binge Drinking in Young Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial with 9-Month Outcomes. PLoS One. 2015 Nov 18;10(11):e0142877. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142877. eCollection 2015.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 26580802 (View on PubMed)

Suffoletto B, Callaway CW, Kristan J, Monti P, Clark DB. Mobile phone text message intervention to reduce binge drinking among young adults: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2013 Apr 3;14:93. doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-14-93.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 23552023 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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PRO12080344

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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