Digital Therapy: Evaluation of the Fully Automated Alcohol Intervention "Balance".
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Hazardous Drinking
- Sponsor
- University of Oslo
- Enrollment
- 85
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- The number of standard alcohol units consumed during the previous seven days
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 8 years ago
Overview
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".
Investigators
Håvar Brendryen
Senior researcher
University of Oslo
Eligibility Criteria
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
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
The number of standard alcohol units consumed during the previous seven days
Time Frame: 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 Outcomes
- Negative consequences of alcohol consumption(Assessed at six months post baseline)
- Sick leave during last week(Assessed at six months post baseline)