Web-based Personalized Feedback for University Students

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Risky Alcohol Consumption
• Interventions: Behavioral: Check Your Drinking University version

• Registration Number: NCT01521078
• Lead Sponsor: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Brief Summary

Excessive alcohol consumption in university students continues for be a serious public health concern with a variety of negative consequences. There have been a number of different brief interventions developed to address this issue among university students. The current project will add to this literature by evaluating the use of a personalized feedback intervention (www.CheckYourDrinkingU.net; CYDU). Specifically, this trial will examine whether providing access to the CYDU will result in short-term reductions in drinking. This issue is important as use of these interventions is not a mandatory requirement for university students so the issue is whether making materials of this type available leads to any reductions in risky drinking. It is hypothesized that students provided access to the CYDU will display greater reductions in drinking at a six-week follow-up as compared to students who were not provided access to the CYDU.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-01
• Study First Submitted: 2012-01-26
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-01-26
• Study First Posted: 2012-01-30
• Primary Completion: 2012-04
• Status Verified: 2012-05
• Study Completion: 2012-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2012-05-24
• Last Update Posted: 2012-05-25

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 425

Inclusion Criteria

• AUDIT-C score of 4 or more at baseline

Exclusion Criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention	Check Your Drinking University version	Provided access to the Check Your Drinking University version (CYDU).

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test - Consumption scale (AUDIT-C scale)	6 weeks	AUDIT-C is a scale that is a composite of three items - frequency of alcohol use, drinks per drinking day, and frequency of 5+ drinking occasions. Scores ranges from 0 to 12 with higher scores indicating more severe alcohol problems.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada