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Alcohol and Health: Personalized Feedback

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Alcohol Drinking
Alcohol Consumption, Youth
Interventions
Other: Personalized Feedback Intervention Traditional
Other: Personalized Feedback Intervention with Values
Registration Number
NCT03337438
Lead Sponsor
Oklahoma State University
Brief Summary

Heavy episodic drinking (HED) among college students remains a concern within the U.S., as rates of HED are still high in this population. Though a variety of brief motivational interventions for alcohol use in college students have demonstrated significant effects, these effects are often small and not consistently maintained over time. Personalized feedback interventions (PFIs) are a particularly promising approach, as these are often acceptable to college students, as well as low-cost, and easy to disseminate. Though presentation of interperson discrepancy via descriptive and injunctive norms has shown consistent effects within PFIs and received much attention in the literature, intraperson, or ideal-actual self discrepancies, has largely been ignored. Drawing from cognitive dissonance theory, self-regulation theory, and motivational interviewing, the current study aims to evaluate the efficacy of an alcohol PFI with a values component to incorporate ideal-self discrepancy into a typical intervention.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
320
Inclusion Criteria
  • Must be at least 18 years of age
  • Must be able to speak and read English
  • Must report consuming alcohol in a typical week over the past month
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Exclusion Criteria
  • Must not deny drinking within the past month
  • Non-English speaking
  • Under the age of 18
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Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Traditional PFI no values assessmentPersonalized Feedback Intervention Traditional-
Traditional-PFI with values assessmentPersonalized Feedback Intervention Traditional-
Values-PFIPersonalized Feedback Intervention with Values-
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Alcohol consumptionone-month post baseline

measured by drinks per week

Value-behavior discrepancy for values related to alcohol useone month post-baseline

Measured by the VLQ-A to measure change in behavioral consistency with values specifically related to alcohol use one month post-baseline

Alcohol consequencesone month post-baseline

measured by the BYAACQ to determine number of consequences experienced in the past month post-baseline

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Perceptions of normsone month post-baseline

Perceptions of descriptive norms will be more accurate one month post-baseline

Trait mindfulnessone month post-baseline

Levels of mindfulness as measured by the FFMQ will be measured at both time points

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

North Murray Hall Oklahoma State University

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Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States

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