Comparing the Efficacy of Several Popular Online Interventions to Reduce Hazardous Alcohol Consumption
NCT ID: NCT03060135
Last Updated: 2017-10-25
Study Results
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
878 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2017-02-24
2017-10-23
Brief Summary
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Participants will be recruited through Amazon's MTurk crowdsourcing platform. Potential participants identified as problem drinkers based on an initial survey will be invited to complete another survey in 6 months time. Those who agree to be followed-up will be assigned by chance to be asked versus not asked to access one of the interventions and then recontacted 6 months later to ask about their drinking and their impressions of the online intervention. The primary hypothesis to be tested is that participants receiving access to any of the online interventions will report a greater level of reduction in number of drinks in a typical week between the baseline survey and six-month follow-up as compared to participants in the control condition.
Detailed Description
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Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
OTHER
SINGLE
Study Groups
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No Intervention: Control
A questionnaire that asks individuals what components of an online intervention they might find useful.
No interventions assigned to this group
Check Your Drinking (CYD)
The CYD is a brief online intervention designed to provide personalized normative feedback aimed at motivating reductions in drinking
Check Your Drinking
A anonymous brief survey designed to provide normative feedback of individual's drinking with the intent of motivating reductions in drinking
Hello Sunday Morning
Internet based program designed to assess drinking patterns, and support self-determined goals for abstinence, by providing users with an online platform and community to discuss progress and goals.
Hello Sunday Morning
Brief online intervention that allows Individual's reflect on their drinking reductions progress and goals.
Interventions
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Check Your Drinking
A anonymous brief survey designed to provide normative feedback of individual's drinking with the intent of motivating reductions in drinking
Hello Sunday Morning
Brief online intervention that allows Individual's reflect on their drinking reductions progress and goals.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* A score of 8 or over on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT)
* Typically consumes 15 or more drinks per week,
* Willingness to complete a 6-month follow-up survey
18 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
OTHER
Responsible Party
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John Cunningham
Senior Scientist
Principal Investigators
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John A Cunningham, PhD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Locations
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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Countries
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References
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Schell C, Godinho A, Cunningham JA. To thine own self, be true: Examining change in self-reported alcohol measures over time as related to socially desirable responding bias among people with unhealthy alcohol use. Subst Abus. 2021;42(1):87-93. doi: 10.1080/08897077.2019.1697998. Epub 2020 Feb 10.
Cunningham JA, Godinho A, Bertholet N. Outcomes of two randomized controlled trials, employing participants recruited through Mechanical Turk, of Internet interventions targeting unhealthy alcohol use. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2019 Jun 14;19(1):124. doi: 10.1186/s12874-019-0770-4.
Related Links
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Information about research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, and a PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre
Other Identifiers
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11/13/2016
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id