- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT03884478
A Gamified, Social Media Inspired Personalized Normative Feedback Alcohol Intervention for Sexual Minority Women
PNF 2.0: A Novel, Gamified, Facebook-Integrated Personalized Normative Feedback Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Use and Negative Consequences Among Sexual Minority Women
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
This incognito alcohol intervention is culturally tailored to appeal to heavy social media using sexual minority women residing in the US and ranging in age from 21 to 55 years. Personalized normative feedback on sexual identity and age specific descriptive drinking and stigma-coping norms are delivered to players within the context of an online competition designed to challenge sexual minority women stereotypes and increase visibility. To increase the believability of the normative statistics, players create a social media-inspired profile at registration which includes an optional photo, brief bio, links to social media accounts, and other basic information. Registered players are able to browse the profiles of others and actual norms for all topics are transparently generated by the responses of players taking part in the competition. To increase motivation and engagement, each monthly round of the competition features a point-based reward system, a leader board, and a cash prize that is awarded to the top scorer who demonstrates the greatest accuracy in perceptions of peers. To decrease defensive reactions and increase appeal, feedback topics are ostensibly selected by chance in the game with treatment PNF on alcohol use and stigma-coping behaviors delivered alongside feedback on control topics of high interest to community members (e.g., style, relationships, sex, etc.). Appeal and credibility are also gained through sponsorship and promotion of the competition by several collaborating community organizations trusted as sources for health and social information by sexual minority women.
One round of the game is played each month over a 8 month period. Players are encouraged to browse player profiles before each round and it is made clear that the goal is to grow one's score by submitting accurate guesses and strategic bets on the responses of other players in one's age and sexual identity group. Each round includes questions about 2 to 3 topics ostensibly selected by a slot machine like spinner. For each topic, players make guesses about the behaviors and experiences of other players in their age and sexual identity group, choose amounts of points to bet on these guesses being true of the group, and then contribute to actual group norms by answering parallel questions. Each round is "open" for 30 days. Once closed, players are sent a text message containing a private link at which they can see detailed results (PNF) for the round, view the leaderboard and cash prize winner, and play the next round.
Packaging this intervention as a fun, identity-relevant competition for sexual minority women rather than a transparent alcohol intervention study allows feasibility and efficacy to be evaluated simultaneously, with a high degree of ecological validity. First, 1200 sexual minority women will be recruited to take part in the online competition. No participation-based incentives will be offered to players beyond the opportunity to compete for a variable cash prize each round. Then, following two initial rounds of play, a sub-sample of 500 drinkers will be invited to take part in an incentivized evaluation study after answering alcohol use questions in Round 3. Upon consenting to participate in the evaluation study, participants will be randomized to receive 1 of 3 unique sequences of feedback (i.e., Alcohol & Stigma-Coping, Alcohol & Control, or Control only) during intervention Rounds 3 and 4. Short-term reductions in alcohol use will be assessed in Round 6 of the competition where players will be prompted to guess, bet on, and answer alcohol use and control topic questions for a second time (i.e., Replay Bonus Round; 2 month follow-up). Following all rounds of the competition, a short survey will assess the alcohol use and negative consequences of Evaluation Study participants a final time (4 month follow-up).
Feasibility analysis will examine engagement with the online competition platform and sustainability of play in the absence of traditional study participation incentives among players not involved in the Evaluation Study. Efficacy analysis will focus on study participants randomly assigned to 1 of the 3 feedback conditions in order to: 1) evaluate whether PNF on alcohol use reduces sexual minority women's alcohol consumption and negative consequences relative to PNF on control topics; 2) examine whether providing PNF on stigma-coping behaviors in addition to alcohol use further reduces alcohol use and consequences beyond alcohol PNF; and, 3) identify mediators and moderators of intervention effectiveness.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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California
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Los Angeles, California, United States, 90045
- Loyola Marymount University
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Registered for the online competition
- Accept the competition's Terms of Service & Privacy Policy
- Endorses a lesbian, bisexual, or queer female sexual identity
- Is between the ages of 21 and 55 years
- Has consumed 3 or more drinks on at least one occasion during the previous 2 months OR consumes alcohol 3 or more days per week
- Lives in North America (US or Canada)
- Does not have a partner or housemate participating
- Accepts invitation and consents to participate in the Evaluation Study
Exclusion Criteria:
- Does not register for the online competition.
- Does not accept the competition's Terms of Service & Privacy Policy
- Is younger than 21 years of age or older than 55 years of age.
- Has NOT consumed 3 or more drinks on at least one occasion during the previous 2 months AND drinks less than 3 days per week
- Lives outside of North America
- Has a partner or housemate participating
- Declines invitation
- Does not consent to participate in the Evaluation Study
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Prevention
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Double
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Alcohol + Stigma Coping PNF
Participants randomized to this condition will receive gamified personalized normative feedback on their alcohol use after answering questions about alcohol use and two control topics in Round 3.
Then, in the very next Round of the competition (Round 4), these participants will receive gamified personalized normative feedback on their stigma coping behaviors after answering questions about their stigma coping behaviors and two control topics.
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Personalized Normative Feedback (PNF) is a popular social norms-based intervention strategy which presents individuals with a personalized, individual report designed to correct misperceived peer norms using a graphical display.
Bar charts compare actual alcohol use statistics for the peer group to A) participants' estimates of peer drinking and, B) their own self-reported drinking.
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Experimental: Alcohol + Control PNF
Participants randomized to this condition will receive gamified personalized normative feedback on their alcohol use after answering questions about alcohol use and control topics in Round 3.
Then, in the very next Round of the competition (Round 4), these participants will receive gamified personalized normative feedback on one control topic (Relationships) after answering questions about their stigma coping behaviors and two control topics.
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Personalized Normative Feedback (PNF) is a popular social norms-based intervention strategy which presents individuals with a personalized, individual report designed to correct misperceived peer norms using a graphical display.
Bar charts compare actual alcohol use statistics for the peer group to A) participants' estimates of peer drinking and, B) their own self-reported drinking.
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Other: Control PNF
Participants randomized to the control arm will answer questions about the same topics as participants in the other conditions in Round 3 (Alcohol Use & Control) and Round 4 (Stigma-Coping & Control).
However, in both Rounds 3 and 4 they will receive gamified PNF on control topics.
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Personalized Normative Feedback (PNF) is a popular social norms-based intervention strategy which presents individuals with a personalized, individual report designed to correct misperceived peer norms using a graphical display.
Bar charts compare actual alcohol use statistics for the peer group to A) participants' estimates of peer drinking and, B) their own self-reported drinking.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in Number of Drinks Per Week From Baseline to the the 2 Month Follow-up
Time Frame: 2 months
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At baseline and the 2 month follow-up, items assessing drinking days per week and average drinks per occasion were multiplied in order to compute number of drinks per week.
These items come from the Frequency, Quantity, Max (FQM) measure.
[Baer J, S. Etiology and secondary prevention of alcohol problems with young adults.
Baer J S, Marlatt G A, McMahon R, J, editors.
Newbury Park: Sage; 1993.]
To compute the outcome, the 2 month measure of drinks per week was subtracted from the baseline measure of drinks per week such that a positive value indicates a decrease in consumption during this period and a negative value indicates an increase in consumption during this period.
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2 months
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Change in Number of Drinks Per Week From Baseline to the 4 Month Follow-up
Time Frame: 4 months
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At baseline and the 4 month follow-up, items assessing drinking days per week and average drinks per occasion were multiplied in order to compute number of drinks per week.
These items come from the Frequency, Quantity, Max (FQM) measure.
[Baer J, S. Etiology and secondary prevention of alcohol problems with young adults.
Baer J S, Marlatt G A, McMahon R, J, editors.
Newbury Park: Sage; 1993.]
To compute the outcome, the 4 month measure of drinks per week was subtracted from the baseline measure of drinks per week such that a positive value indicates a decrease in consumption during this period and a negative value indicates an increase in consumption during this period.
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4 months
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Change in Peak Drinks on One Occasion From Baseline to the 2 Months Follow-up
Time Frame: 2 months
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At baseline and the 2 month follow-up, an item assessing the number of maximum drinks on one occasion from the Frequency, Quantity, Max (FQM) measure was used to assess peak drinks on one occasion over the past 30 days.
[Baer J, S. Etiology and secondary prevention of alcohol problems with young adults.
Baer J S, Marlatt G A, McMahon R, J, editors.
Newbury Park: Sage; 1993.]
To compute the outcome, the 2 month measure of peak drinks was subtracted from the baseline measure of peak drinks such that a positive value indicates a decrease in consumption during this period and a negative value indicates an increase in consumption during this period.
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2 months
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Change in Peak Drinks on One Occasion From Baseline to the 4 Month Follow-up
Time Frame: 4 months
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At baseline and the 4 month follow-up, an item assessing the number of maximum drinks on one occasion from the Frequency, Quantity, Max (FQM) measure was used to assess peak drinks on one occasion over the past 30 days.
[Baer J, S. Etiology and secondary prevention of alcohol problems with young adults.
Baer J S, Marlatt G A, McMahon R, J, editors.
Newbury Park: Sage; 1993.]
To compute the outcome, the 4 month measure of peak drinks was subtracted from the baseline measure of peak drinks such that a positive value indicates a decrease in consumption during this period and a negative value indicates an increase in consumption during this period.
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4 months
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Change in Number of Negative Alcohol-related Consequences From Baseline to the 2 Month Follow-up
Time Frame: 2 months
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At baseline and the 2 month follow-up, a single item assessed the number of negative alcohol-related consequences experienced out of a list of 8 common negative alcohol-related consequences.
This item is adapted from Riley BB, Hughes TL, Wilsnack SC.
Validating a hazardous drinking index in a sample of sexual minority women: Reliability, validity, and predictive accuracy.
Substance Use and Misuse.
2017;52(1):43-51.
doi: 10.1080/10826084.2016.1214150.]
To compute the outcome, the 2 month measure of negative consequences was subtracted from the baseline measure of negative consequences such that a positive value indicates a decrease in consequences during this period and a negative value indicates an increase in consequences during this period.
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2 months
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Change in Number of Negative Alcohol-related Consequences From Baseline to the 4 Month Follow-up
Time Frame: 4 months
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At baseline and the 4 month follow-up, a single item assessed the number of negative alcohol-related consequences experienced out of a list of 8 common negative alcohol-related consequences.
This item is adapted from Riley BB, Hughes TL, Wilsnack SC.
Validating a hazardous drinking index in a sample of sexual minority women: Reliability, validity, and predictive accuracy.
Substance Use and Misuse.
2017;52(1):43-51.
doi: 10.1080/10826084.2016.1214150.]
To compute the outcome, the 4 month measure of negative consequences was subtracted from the baseline measure of negative consequences such that a positive value indicates a decrease in consequences during this period and a negative value indicates an increase in consequences during this period.
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4 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- Boyle SC, LaBrie JW. A Gamified, Social Media-Inspired, Web-Based Personalized Normative Feedback Alcohol Intervention for Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer-Identified Women: Protocol for a Hybrid Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2021 Apr 16;10(4):e24647. doi: 10.2196/24647.
- Boyle SC, LaBrie JW, Trager BM, Costine LD. A Gamified Personalized Normative Feedback App to Reduce Drinking Among Sexual Minority Women: Randomized Controlled Trial and Feasibility Study. J Med Internet Res. 2022 May 13;24(5):e34853. doi: 10.2196/34853.
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Other Study ID Numbers
- 1R21AA025767-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
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- ICF
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Study Protocol
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