Brief Religious Alcohol Intervention

NCT ID: NCT04075773

Last Updated: 2020-08-14

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

203 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-09-04

Study Completion Date

2020-08-11

Brief Summary

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This study is a trial of a brief alcohol intervention, a brief expressive writing intervention that incorporates religious identity.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Heavy Drinking

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Participants will be randomized to either an intervention condition, where they will write about how their drinking relates to their religious identity, or to a control condition, where they will write about how their drinking relates to their age.
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Participants Caregivers
Participants will not be made aware of the purpose of the study. Research assistants, who interact with the participants, will not be made aware of which writing prompt any given participant will receive.

Study Groups

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Religious Prompt

Participants will be provided a writing prompt that describes their self-reported drinking, then asks them to write for 5 to 10 minutes about how that drinking is associated with their self-reported religious identity. After completing that writing assignment, participants will be shown their response, and asked to spend 5 to 10 minutes describing how their drinking behaviors in the next month might change.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Expressive Writing

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The participants are asked to write for a period of time about specific concepts so that they think carefully and cognitively process the information they are generating.

Age Prompt

Participants will be provided a writing prompt that describes their self-reported drinking, then asks them to write for 5 to 10 minutes about how that drinking is associated with their self-reported age. After completing that writing assignment, participants will be shown their response, and asked to spend 5 to 10 minutes describing how their drinking behaviors in the next month might change.

Group Type SHAM_COMPARATOR

Expressive Writing

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The participants are asked to write for a period of time about specific concepts so that they think carefully and cognitively process the information they are generating.

Interventions

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Expressive Writing

The participants are asked to write for a period of time about specific concepts so that they think carefully and cognitively process the information they are generating.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* 18 to 29 years old
* Have had a binge episode (4/5 drinks on one occasion for women/men) at least once in the past month
* UH students

Exclusion Criteria

* Participants who are currently enrolled in treatment for alcohol or other substances
* Participants who have been diagnosed with and/or treated for verbal learning disabilities
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

29 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Houston

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Mary M. Tomkins

Graduate Research Assistant

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Mary M Tomkins, M.S.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Houston

Locations

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University of Houston Psychology Department

Houston, Texas, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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STUDY00001734

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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