Brief Alcohol Intervention for School-to-Work Transitions
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Binge Drinking
- Sponsor
- Brown University
- Enrollment
- 168
- Primary Endpoint
- Timeline Follow Back Assessing Number of Standard Drinks
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 10 months ago
Overview
Brief Summary
This is a 2-year research project to test the efficacy of brief motivational intervention for reducing heavy alcohol use in young adults transitioning out of high school. Participation occurs within 3 months prior to graduation or within 1 year following graduation or dropout from high school. Heavy drinkers ages 17-20 will be randomly assigned to receive one session of BMI or one session of relaxation training. All participants complete identical assessments at baseline and immediately post-intervention (during session 1). Participants also complete in-person 6-week and 3-month follow up assessments to evaluate intervention effects. Study aims involve: a) testing the comparative efficacy of BMI; b) identifying moderators (person-level predictors) of intervention response; and c) identifying mediators (mechanisms) of intervention effects, that is, how BMI exerts its effect on outcomes.
Detailed Description
This study tested the efficacy of a single session of BMI for reducing heavy drinking and related adverse consequences among underage young adult drinkers not attending a 4-year college or university. We designed the intervention to be delivered proximal to the transition out of high school (with or without graduation), because such periods of transition and discontinuity in the life course present opportunities to positively alter developmental paths (Masten et al., 2009). Thus, interventions timed to co-occur with naturalistic transition points may have great potential for decreasing drinking trajectories or preventing harmful escalations in trajectories going forward. To increase the applicability of our findings to the heterogeneous population of community-dwelling young adults, our recruitment targeted a purposefully inclusive "non-4-year-college" population. We hypothesized that, compared to a time and attention-matched control condition (i.e., relaxation training \[REL\]), BMI would result in significantly reduced heavy drinking and reduced adverse consequences of alcohol use at 6-week and 3-month follow-up.
Investigators
Suzanne M. Colby
Associate Professor, Research
Brown University
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •high school students anticipating graduation within 3 months, drop outs or graduates
- •males must report at least one day drinking 5 or more standard drinks in past month
- •females must report at least one day drinking 4 or more standard drinks in past month
Exclusion Criteria
- •plans to enroll at traditional 4-year college within 12 months
- •plans to enter military within next 12 months
- •plans to move more than 1 hour from current location in within 12 months
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Timeline Follow Back Assessing Number of Standard Drinks
Time Frame: 3 months
This is a calculation of the number of standard alcohol drinks consumed per week, based on data collected via the timeline follow back interview
Secondary Outcomes
- Help Seeking(6 week and 3 month follow ups)
- Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire(6 week and 3 month follow ups)
- Drinking Reduction Strategies(6 week and 3 month follow ups)
- Employment Outcomes(6 week and 3 month follow ups)
- Satisfaction With Life(6 week and 3 month follow ups)
- Adolescent Reinforcement Survey Schedule (ARSS)(6 week and 3 month follow ups)