Coping Skills for Alcohol Use

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Alcohol Drinking; Coping Skills
• Interventions: Behavioral: Drinking to Cope CBT skills

• Registration Number: NCT05356533
• Lead Sponsor: University of Washington

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-04-04
• Study First Submitted: 2022-04-27
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-04-27
• Study First Posted: 2022-05-02
• Primary Completion: 2022-12-30
• Study Completion: 2022-12-30
• Results First Submitted: 2024-03-22
• Status Verified: 2024-09
• Results First Submitted QC: 2024-09-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-09-08
• Results First Posted: 2024-10-01
• Last Update Posted: 2024-10-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 120

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

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Exclusion Criteria

• None

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention	Drinking to Cope CBT skills	A total of 60 young adults will be randomized to the 4-week, web-based drinking to cope intervention.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Alcohol Use-Peak Drinks	past month	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);
Alcohol Use-drinks Per Week	past month	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.
Alcohol Use-heavy Episodic Drinking	past month	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);
Alcohol Negative Consequences	Past Month	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.
Alcohol Coping	Past Month	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.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Depressive Symptoms	Past month	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.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Washington; 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States