Text Messaging as a Novel Alcohol Intervention for Community College Students

NCT ID: NCT02507115

Last Updated: 2019-04-25

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 65 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2012-07-31
• Study Completion Date: 2015-06-30

Brief Summary

This project will develop an intervention delivered through text messaging to reduce alcohol consumption and high risk drinking among adults who are enrolled as students in community colleges.

Detailed Description

Heavy alcohol use among community college students is a serious problem, leaving students vulnerable to social and health impairment, physical or sexual assault, unintentional injuries, and death. However, there have been limited efforts to research and treat community college students, despite these students comprising nearly 40% of all college students nationwide. Community college students are diverse in ethnicity, age, socioeconomic status, living situation, and employment status. Thus, successful interventions must be sufficiently flexible to apply across a diverse array of individual characteristics and needs. Unfortunately, there is evidence of great unmet need among this group; community college students drive under the influence of alcohol more frequently than students at four-year colleges, and due to lesser time spent on campus, are less available for in-person interventions coordinated at their college. The long-term objective of this research program is to address a gap in the treatment of heavy alcohol use by the community college population. As a first step toward achieving that goal, this R21 application will develop an intervention that is tailored to the needs of community college students and which uses mobile communications platforms that are already used by the vast majority of this population. Taking this approach, the intervention will be mobile, accessible wherever the user is located, and able to be tailored to individual characteristics. The investigators will begin by presenting out initial intervention design to focus groups (4 groups heavy drinking community college students) and obtaining feedback from key informants (advisory board). The investigators will use feedback from these groups to finalize the design and develop a working prototype, and will then pilot the intervention among heavy drinking community college students (N=10) for six weeks to test the usability and acceptability of the prototype intervention. Participants will be interviewed at the end of the program to provide feedback and evaluate their experience with the system, and content experts will again evaluate the prototype using semi-structured interviews. Finally, the investigators will pilot the modified intervention with heaving drinking community college students (N=40) for six weeks. These participants will be randomly assigned to either the intervention program or a standard intervention (print self-help) with a contact-control. Assessments will be conducted at end-of-treatment, and at 3 and 6 months follow up. These data will be used to guide the planning of a full-scale clinical trial to test the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of the intervention in reducing hazardous drinking among community college students

Conditions

Alcohol Use

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

TMAP

Alcohol-related Text messages 4 days/week for 6 weeks

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

TMAP

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Text messages for Alcohol Risk Reduction

Control

Motivational Text messages 4 days/week for 6 weeks

Group Type: SHAM_COMPARATOR

Mojo Texts

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Motivational texts not alcohol related

Interventions

TMAP

Text messages for Alcohol Risk Reduction

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Mojo Texts

Motivational texts not alcohol related

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• age 18 to 28 Community College student Consume at least 4 drinks in one sitting in the past week

Exclusion Criteria

• none

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 28 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Live Inspired, LLC

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role: collaborator

The Miriam Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

The Miriam Hospital- CORO building

Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Countries

United States

References

Bock BC, Rosen RK, Barnett NP, Thind H, Walaska K, Foster R, Deutsch C, Traficante R. Translating Behavioral Interventions Onto mHealth Platforms: Developing Text Message Interventions for Smoking and Alcohol. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2015 Feb 24;3(1):e22. doi: 10.2196/mhealth.3779.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 25714907 (View on PubMed)

Bock BC, Barnett NP, Thind H, Rosen R, Walaska K, Traficante R, Foster R, Deutsch C, Fava JL, Scott-Sheldon LA. A text message intervention for alcohol risk reduction among community college students: TMAP. Addict Behav. 2016 Dec;63:107-13. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2016.07.012. Epub 2016 Jul 18.

Reference Type: RESULT

PMID: 27450909 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

1R21AA021014-01A1

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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