Alcohol and Health: Personalized Feedback

Heavy episodic drinking (HED) among college students remains a concern within the U.S., as rates of HED are still high in this population. Though a variety of brief motivational interventions for alcohol use in college students have demonstrated significant effects, these effects are often small and not consistently maintained over time. Personalized feedback interventions (PFIs) are a particularly promising approach, as these are often acceptable to college students, as well as low-cost, and easy to disseminate. Though presentation of interperson discrepancy via descriptive and injunctive norms has shown consistent effects within PFIs and received much attention in the literature, intraperson, or ideal-actual self discrepancies, has largely been ignored. Drawing from cognitive dissonance theory, self-regulation theory, and motivational interviewing, the current study aims to evaluate the efficacy of an alcohol PFI with a values component to incorporate ideal-self discrepancy into a typical intervention.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Alcohol Drinking; Alcohol Consumption, Youth
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Personalized Feedback Intervention with Values; Other: Personalized Feedback Intervention Traditional

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 320
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Oklahoma
    • Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States, 74078
      • North Murray Hall Oklahoma State University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Must be able to speak and read English
• Must report consuming alcohol in a typical week over the past month

Exclusion Criteria:

• Must not deny drinking within the past month
• Non-English speaking
• Under the age of 18

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Other: Values-PFI	Other: Personalized Feedback Intervention with Values; The PFI with values will include information commonly included in personalized feedback interventions for alcohol use, such as norms information and drinking profile, as well as feedback on three of the assessed values that are highly important to the participant.
Other: Traditional-PFI with values assessment	Other: Personalized Feedback Intervention Traditional; This PFI will include information on drinking profile, norms, behavioral strategies used while drinking, and practical costs related to drinking reframed as monetary values and caloric values.
Other: Traditional PFI no values assessment	Other: Personalized Feedback Intervention Traditional; This PFI will include information on drinking profile, norms, behavioral strategies used while drinking, and practical costs related to drinking reframed as monetary values and caloric values.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Alcohol consumption	measured by drinks per week	one-month post baseline
Alcohol consequences	measured by the BYAACQ to determine number of consequences experienced in the past month post-baseline	one month post-baseline
Value-behavior discrepancy for values related to alcohol use	Measured by the VLQ-A to measure change in behavioral consistency with values specifically related to alcohol use one month post-baseline	one month post-baseline

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Perceptions of norms	Perceptions of descriptive norms will be more accurate one month post-baseline	one month post-baseline
Trait mindfulness	Levels of mindfulness as measured by the FFMQ will be measured at both time points	one month post-baseline

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Oklahoma State University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 22, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): October 29, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): October 29, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 27, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 6, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): November 9, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 30, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 29, 2019
• Last Verified: October 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Drinking Behavior; Alcohol Drinking; Underage Drinking
• Other Study ID Numbers: AS1770

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No