Brief Binge Eating and Drinking Online Intervention

NCT ID: NCT06326099

Last Updated: 2025-03-10

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 300 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-05-01
• Study Completion Date: 2026-04-30

Brief Summary

This pilot project targets both binge drinking and binge eating behavior in college students through a mobile-based online program that provides students with evidence-based intervention material designed to reduce the incidence of both behaviors and encourage students to seek more formal in-person counseling.

Detailed Description

Despite the prevalence of binge drinking and binge eating behaviors among college students, few students seek care for either. Intervening with college students early is essential as untreated symptoms of binge drinking and binge eating behaviors can become more severe and persistent over time, often leading to diagnosed disorders and lasting consequences on students' social functioning, physical health, and educational attainment. Thus, the major goal of this research study is to target both binge drinking and binge eating behavior in college students through a mobile-based online program that provides students with evidence-based intervention material designed to reduce the incidence of both behaviors, as well as encourage students to seek more formal in-person counseling. The intervention combines two innovations to facilitate behavior change: (1) personalized drinking and binge eating intervention content with harm reduction and cognitive behavioral skills proven to be efficacious in reducing these problematic behaviors among college students delivered via (2) a mobile-based program that increases accessibility, is easy and engaging to use, and broadens the accessibility of the intervention content to an often non-treatment seeking group. The intervention is informed by evidence-based practices, with student and expert feedback, to help limit alcohol consumption, engage in healthier eating behaviors, and practice alternate strategies to manage negative affect.

Conditions

Binge Eating; Binge Drinking

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Brief Online Binge Eating and Drinking Intervention

The intervention is a 30 minute mobile phone program designed to address binge eating and drinking. The program addresses underlying loss of control, impulsivity, and emotion regulation common to both binge drinking and binge eating through videos, interactive activities, and psychoeducation.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Brief Online Binge Eating and Drinking Intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The intervention is an online mobile phone program developed by our research team. It builds upon efficacious brief alcohol interventions with college students by addressing underlying loss of control, impulsivity, and emotion regulation through the use of videos, interactive activities, and psychoeducation.

Resources Only

Campus-specific resources for how to access the university's counseling office (i.e., student mental health services), information about the Eating Disorders program at the university, and information on accessing the university's alcohol and drug awareness offices.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Brief Online Binge Eating and Drinking Intervention

The intervention is an online mobile phone program developed by our research team. It builds upon efficacious brief alcohol interventions with college students by addressing underlying loss of control, impulsivity, and emotion regulation through the use of videos, interactive activities, and psychoeducation.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

Sip n' Savor

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• full time undergraduate student at the study site
• between the ages of 18 and 24
• ability to speak and read English
• at least two occasions of binge drinking (5 or more drinks in a row for males, 4 (i.e., an objectively large amount of food with a self-reported loss of control) in the past 28 days
• at least two occasions of binge eating (i.e., an objectively large amount of food with a self-reported loss of control)151 in the past 28 days
• no receipt of mental health or substance use care in the past month.

Exclusion Criteria

• not meeting eligibility criteria

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 24 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Southern California

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Eric Pedersen

Associate Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Central Contacts

Eric Pedersen, Ph.D.

Role: CONTACT

Eric.Pedersen@med.usc.edu

323-442-4046

Other Identifiers

R34AA030655

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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