Coping Skills for Alcohol Use

Development of an Interactive, Web-based Drinking to Cope Intervention and Tools to Assess Coping Skill Utilization

A total of 120 young adults who drink to cope with negative affect will be randomized to a 4-week, web-based intervention with interactive modules on cognitive-behavioral skills (n=60) or an assessment only control (n=60). Participants will complete 4 weekly assessments and a 1- and 3-month follow-up.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Alcohol Drinking; Coping Skills
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Drinking to Cope CBT skills

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 120
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Washington
    • Seattle, Washington, United States, 98195
      • University of Washington

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 25 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

- Eligibility criteria at recruitment include: 1)18-25 years old; 2) Currently live in the state of WA, 3) Have a valid email address and phone number, 4) Drank alcohol at least once in the past month, 5) report at least 1 alcohol-related problem in the past month, 6) report using alcohol to cope with distress via negative reinforcement (i.e., to provide relief or reduction of stress or depressed mood) in the past month

Exclusion Criteria:

• None

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Intervention; A total of 60 young adults will be randomized to the 4-week, web-based drinking to cope intervention.	Behavioral: Drinking to Cope CBT skills; Young adults who drink to cope with negative affect will receive 8 web-based modules with cognitive behavioral skills
No Intervention: Assessment Control; A total of 60 young adults will be randomized to the assessment only control condition.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Alcohol Use-Peak Drinks	Peak number of drinks; Item measuring peak alcohol consumption, "Think of the occasion you drank the most this past month. How much did you drink?", response options ranged from 0 (0 drinks) to 25 (25+ drinks);	past month
Alcohol Use-drinks Per Week	The DDQ (Collins, Parks, & Marlatt, 1985) was used to measure the quantity of alcohol consumed by asking participants to estimate the typical number of drinks consumed on each day of the week, on average during the past month. A sum score of weekly total drinks per week was then calculated as the sum of the total number of drinks per week reported.	past month
Alcohol Use-heavy Episodic Drinking	Heavy Episodic Drinking; NIAAA item assessing binge drinking, "During the past month, how often did you have [4 or more drinks (for women) /5 or more drinks (for men)] containing any kind of alcohol within a two-hour period?", response options ranged from 0 (Never) to 7 (Every day);	past month
Alcohol Negative Consequences	Alcohol Negative Consequences, Sum score (count) of negative consequences taken from Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire; Scores ranged from 0-24, with higher scores associated with more consequences.	Past Month
Alcohol Coping	The Drinking Motives Questionnaire-Revised (DMQR; Grant V.V., Stewart S.H., O'Connor R.M., Backwell E., & Conrod P.J. (2007). Psychometric evaluation of the five-factor Modified Drinking Motives Questionnaire-Revised in undergraduates. Addictive Behaviors, 32(11), 2611-2632. Doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2007.07.004 ) was used to assess reasons for drinking. Using a 5-point scale (ranging from 'almost never/never' to 'almost always/always' participants rate how frequently they use alcohol for various reasons. The alcohol coping motives subscale was used which takes the average of the 9 items on the coping-depression subscale. Average scores ranged from 1-5, with higher scores are associated with greater use of coping.	Past Month

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Depressive Symptoms	depressive symptoms; The eight-item Patient Health Questionnaire depression scale (PHQ-8) was used to assess for symptoms of depression. A sum of the 8 items was used, with the summed score ranging from 0-24. Higher scores represent greater symptoms of depression.	Past month

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Washington
• Collaborators: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Jennifer M Cadigan, PhD, University of Washington

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 4, 2022
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 30, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): December 30, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 27, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 27, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): May 2, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 1, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 8, 2024
• Last Verified: September 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Drinking Behavior; Alcohol Drinking
• Other Study ID Numbers: STUDY00008998; 1R34AA028074 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

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