Testing the Efficacy of an Online Alcohol Intervention in a Workplace Setting

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Harmful Drinking; Hazardous Drinking
• Interventions: Behavioral: Online screening and feedback; Behavioral: Online booklet.; Behavioral: Online multi session follow-up

• Registration Number: NCT01931618
• Lead Sponsor: University of Oslo

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to test - in a workplace setting - if an online multi-session alcohol intervention improves treatment effect over and above a single session screening with feedback.

Hypothesis: automated online multi-session follow-up improves the effect on alcohol consumption over and above a single session screening

Detailed Description

Setting: Online study among Norwegian employees.

Participants: At-risk drinkers among employees in a select group of norwegian workplaces is recruited through an e-mail to their job e-mail account, and advertisements on the intranet of their organization.

Design: Randomized controlled trial (RCT). Subjects in both conditions receives a single session screening procedure including individualized normative feedback. The control group receives an online booklet about the effects of alcohol. The treatment group receives the multi session follow up program "Balance".

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-04
• Primary Completion: 2012-11
• Study Completion: 2012-11
• Study First Submitted: 2013-08-26
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-08-26
• Study First Posted: 2013-08-29
• Status Verified: 2017-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-09-07
• Last Update Posted: 2017-09-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 85

Inclusion Criteria

• hazardous or harmful drinking (i.e., a FAST-score of 3 or more)

Exclusion Criteria

• underage (<18)
• not provided a valid e-mail address
• not provided a valid (Norwegian) mobile phone number

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Usual care	Online screening and feedback	Receives two interventions: 1. Online screening and feedback. 2. Online booklet.
Usual care	Online booklet.	Receives two interventions: 1. Online screening and feedback. 2. Online booklet.
Extended follow-up	Online multi session follow-up	Receives two interventions: 1. Online screening and feedback. 2. Online multi session follow-up.
Extended follow-up	Online screening and feedback	Receives two interventions: 1. Online screening and feedback. 2. Online multi session follow-up.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The number of standard alcohol units consumed during the previous seven days	Measured six months after enrollment/baseline	Subjects are asked to indicate (through online questionnaires) how many standard alcohol units they consumed on each of the previous seven days, on a scale from zero to ten. Then a sum-score for weekly consumption is calculated, ranging from zero to 70.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Negative consequences of alcohol consumption	Assessed at six months post baseline	Perceived negative consequences of own alcohol consumption, during the seven previous days, was assessed by a 13 item index, resulting in a sum score with a theoretical range from zero to 13. The items comprised: headache, nausea, anxiety, worn out, depressed, breaking a plan, breaking a date, sick leave, memory problems, bad conscience, conflict, destroyed something and injuries.
Sick leave during last week	Assessed at six months post baseline	Sick leave was assessed with a "yes" or "no" response for each of the past seven days, and then accumulated, resulting in a score of zero to seven. Participants were instructed to report any sick leave regardless of reason.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

The Norwegian Centre for Addiction Research, University of Oslo; 🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway