An Electronic Brief Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Consumption Intentions, Improve Alcohol Literacy, and Reduce Harmful Use Among Women Attending a Breast Screening Service: a Randomised Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 143
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Drinking intentions
研究概览
简要总结
Alcohol is a major modifiable risk factor for female breast cancer; yet, awareness of this risk remains surprisingly low and is not systematically addressed in healthcare settings. This study aim to test the effectiveness of a co-designed, automated brief alcohol intervention (Health4Her-Automated) in reducing women's drinking intentions, improving alcohol literacy, and reducing consumption.
详细描述
Alcohol is a major modifiable risk factor for female breast cancer, even in very low amounts. In Australia, alcohol consumption accounts for 6.6 per cent of cases in post-menopausal women, and 18 per cent of breast cancer deaths. Yet, awareness of this risk remains low and is not systematically addressed in healthcare settings. Embedding a brief alcohol intervention within lifestyle information offered to all women attending breast screening provides the opportunity to address harmful drinking in a discrete, non-judgmental way, to prevent alcohol-attributable breast cancer among this at-risk population.
Brief alcohol interventions are short, single-session programs typically offered in general practice settings to gather information on a person's alcohol consumption and, in a non confrontational way, provide strategies and motivate change to reduce consumption and related risk of harm. An automated brief alcohol intervention, self-completed on a device such as an iPad, is a low-cost, labour- and time-efficient approach that overcomes many of the issues of providing intervention within busy healthcare environments.
Building on the previous pilot trial of a prototype brief e-health intervention (which included alcohol-related questions asked by a researcher, and an animation viewed on an iPad that was activated by the researcher), the aim of the current study is to test the effectiveness of a co-designed, automated brief alcohol intervention (Health4Her-Automated) in reducing women's drinking intentions, improving alcohol literacy, and reducing consumption.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)
盲法说明
The on-site researcher responsible for recruitment will not be blind to treatment assignment; the participating women self-completing baseline assessment, intervention, immediate post-intervention and 4-week follow-up assessments will be blinded to treatment assignment. The researcher who oversees follow-up assessment data collection will be blinded to treatment assignment.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 40 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •40+ years of age
- •Attending routine breast screening
- •With or without a breast cancer history
- •Reporting any level of alcohol consumption
排除标准
- •Not able to read or comprehend English to enable participation
- •No access to a computer, tablet or smartphone to complete follow-up assessment
- •Women who are pregnant (also an exclusion from breast screening)
- •Participation in the pilot Health4Her trial
结局指标
主要结局
Drinking intentions
时间窗: immediately post-randomisation
Change in next-month drinking intentions (5-point scale: 1, not at all; 5, to a very large extent)
次要结局
- Drinking intentions - standard drinks(4-weeks post-randomisation)
- Knowledge of other breast cancer risk factors(4-weeks post-randomisation)
- Drinking intentions(4-weeks post-randomisation)
- Proportion of participants intending to reduce alcohol consumption(4-weeks post-randomisation)
- Knowledge of alcohol as a breast cancer risk factor(4-weeks post-randomisation)
- Alcohol literacy(4-weeks post-randomisation)
- Alcohol consumption(4-weeks post-randomisation)