Brief Religious Alcohol Intervention (BRAI)

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

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Heavy Drinking
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Expressive Writing

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 203
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Texas
    • Houston, Texas, United States, 77004
      • University of Houston Psychology Department

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 29 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Double

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: 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.	Behavioral: 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.
Sham Comparator: 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.	Behavioral: 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.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in the Timeline Follow-Back one month following the intervention	Participants report number of drinks consumed each day over the last month.	It will be assessed before the intervention and one month following the intervention.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Chang in the Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire one month following the intervention	Participants respond to a list of common consequences of alcohol use indicating whether or not they have experienced them. The scale name is the "Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire" (Read, Kahler, Strong, & Colder, 2006). The construct of interest measured by this scale is the alcohol problems experienced by the participant. The total score is used, and the range for the total score is 0 to 48.	It will be assessed before the intervention and one month following the intervention.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Houston
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Mary M Tomkins, M.S., University of Houston

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 4, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 11, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): August 11, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 28, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 29, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): September 3, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 14, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 12, 2020
• Last Verified: August 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: STUDY00001734

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: We do not have any plans at this time to share individual participant data with other researchers.

Drug and device information, study documents

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