A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Game-Based Intervention to Reduce Alcohol-Related Harms Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Singularities Game
- Conditions
- Alcohol Problem
- Sponsor
- University of Pittsburgh
- Enrollment
- 28
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Alcohol-related Harms
- Status
- Terminated
- Last Updated
- last month
Overview
Brief Summary
This is a randomized controlled trial to examine the efficacy of a game-based intervention to reduce alcohol-related harms among sexual and gender minority youth.
Investigators
Robert Coulter
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Able to participate in English
- •Live in the U.S.,
- •14-18 years old
- •Have a sexual minority identity (i.e., gay, lesbian, bisexual, or queer) or a gender minority identity (i.e., consider themselves to be transgender or nonbinary),
- •Have an internet-accessible computer, smart phone, or tablet,
- •Provide an email address.
- •Have drank alcohol in their lifetime or intend to in the next year.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Cisgender heterosexuals.
Arms & Interventions
Singularities Game
Singularities is an online game.
Intervention: Singularities Game
Food4Thought
Food4Thought is an attention control condition in which we provide participants with similar amounts of research team contact and program contact as the intervention. Participants will play the game Pick Your Plate! A Global Guide to Nutrition, developed by the Smithsonian Science Education Center. Participants are instructed to build healthy meals using cuisine from around the world while ensuring they stick to a budget and meet all their nutritional needs. Food4Thought will be delivered via Qualtrics.
Intervention: Food4Thought
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Alcohol-related Harms
Time Frame: 3 months
Primary outcome is alcohol-related harms defined as the frequency of 19 total harms (e.g., Hangover after drinking, Unable to remember what happened after drinking, Had sex that you later regretted, Trouble with parent(s) because of drinking Physical fight because you were affected by alcohol, Drove in a vehicle after drinking) as measured in the School Health and Alcohol Harm Reduction Project (SHAHRP)
Secondary Outcomes
- Drinking Quantity(3 months)
- Drinking Frequency(3 months)
- Binge Drinking(3 months)
- Alcohol Use Initiation(3 months)
- Alcohol Harm Reduction Skills(3 months)
- Bystander Alcohol Harm Reduction Skills(3 months)
- Emotional Distress Tolerance Skills(3 months)
- Emotion Regulation and Decentering Practices(3 months)
- Healthy Social Media Use(3 months)