Bystander Intervention for Hazardous Drinking

Brown University1 site in 1 country187 target enrollmentJanuary 10, 2022

ConditionsHazardous Behavior Alcohol Consequences

Overview

Phase: Not Applicable
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: Hazardous Behavior
Sponsor: Brown University
Enrollment: 187
Locations: 1
Primary Endpoint: The Bystanders to Alcohol Risk Scale - Strategies
Status: Completed
Last Updated: last year

Overview Investigators Eligibility Criteria Outcomes Sites Similar Trials

Overview

Brief Summary

The objective of this treatment development grant is to create an innovative and efficacious alcohol intervention for emerging adults using features from three theoretically sound and empirically supported approaches. A set of students will be engaged to serve as peer leaders to assist in reducing hazardous drinking behavior among their peers. This new intervention, a Bystander Brief Motivational Intervention (BBMI) spans Stages 1A and 1B of the stage model of behavioral therapies research and will utilize qualitative methods, an open trial, and a small controlled pilot trial within the targeted college community.

Detailed Description

The objective of this treatment development grant is to create an innovative and efficacious alcohol intervention for emerging adults using features from three theoretically sound and empirically supported approaches. Established elements from Bystander Intervention (awareness of the problem, addressing pluralistic ignorance, skill building), Brief Motivational Intervention (client-centered foundation, corrective information about community norms, protective behavioral strategies) and Social Network Analysis (measuring network ties, identifying the influence of network members), will be integrated into a brief intervention that pays particular attention to the connectedness of residents in dormitory social networks. Social network analytic methods will be used to assess the primary peer network (the college residence) and a set of individuals exposed to others drinking risks will be identified to receive the intervention. This set of students will be engaged to serve as peer leaders to assist in reducing hazardous drinking behavior among their peers. This new intervention, a Bystander Brief Motivational Intervention (BBMI) spans Stages 1A and 1B of the stage model of behavioral therapies research and will utilize qualitative methods, an open trial, and a small controlled pilot trial within the targeted college community.

Registry

clinicaltrials.gov

Start Date

January 10, 2022

End Date

July 15, 2022

Last Updated

last year

Study Type

Interventional

Study Design

Parallel

Sex

All

Investigators

Sponsor

Brown University

Responsible Party

Principal Investigator

Nancy Barnett

Professor

Brown University

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

•First-year students in one of two residence halls. The subset of participants who were selected for intervention or control had to have been exposed to others who showed risk signs in the past month.