The Efficacy of the Alcooquizz App to Reduce Hazardous Alcohol Consumption

NCT03008928 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 108/2016
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 987
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

New technologies offer potential ways to provide and deliver preventative interventions. With respect to unhealthy alcohol use, offering people tools to assess and manage their risk at any given time using their smartphone may represent an additional opportunity to disseminate preventative interventions. Nevertheless, there is a lack of knowledge on the acceptability and efficacy of smartphone applications for unhealthy alcohol use. Alcooquizz, a smartphone app, has been previously evaluated using a before/after design without randomization, with participants reporting reductions in drinking over time. The current trial proposes to conduct an RCT, comparing reductions in alcohol consumption between participants provided access to Alcooquizz to a no intervention control. Participants will be recruited through Amazon's MTurk crowdsourcing platform. Potential participants identified as problem drinkers based on an initial survey will be invited to complete another survey in 6 months time. Those who agree to be followed-up will be randomized to be provided a link to download the Alcooquizz app or to a no link control condition. At six-months post-baseline, the MTurk portal will be used to send invitation emails that contain a link to the follow-up survey that asks about their drinking and their impressions of the app. The primary hypothesis to be tested is that participants receiving access to the Alcooquizz app will report a greater level of reduction in number of drinks in a typical week between the baseline survey and six-month follow-up as compared to participants in the no information control condition.

Conditions

Alcohol Consumption

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change in number of drinks in a typical week from baseline

  Sum of number of drinks consumed in a typical week

  6 months

Study Arms (2)

Control

NO INTERVENTION

No intervention

Alcooquizz app

EXPERIMENTAL

Alcooquizz is a smartphone app designed to promote reductions in alcohol consumption among people who drink in a hazarzdous fashion

Behavioral: Alcooquizz

Interventions

Alcooquizz BEHAVIORAL

Alcooquizz app

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• years of age or over
• A score of 8 or over on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT)
• Typically consumes 15 or more drinks per week,
• Willingness to complete a 6-month follow-up survey

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Centre for Addiction and Mental Health: lead

Study Sites (1)

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2S1, Canada

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Schell C, Godinho A, Cunningham JA. To thine own self, be true: Examining change in self-reported alcohol measures over time as related to socially desirable responding bias among people with unhealthy alcohol use. Subst Abus. 2021;42(1):87-93. doi: 10.1080/08897077.2019.1697998. Epub 2020 Feb 10.

  PMID: 32040383 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Alcohol Drinking

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Drinking Behavior; Behavior

Study Officials

• John A Cunningham, PhD

  Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Senior Scientist

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 30, 2016
• First Posted: January 4, 2017
• Study Start: January 1, 2017
• Primary Completion: August 1, 2017
• Study Completion: August 1, 2017
• Last Updated: August 16, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-08

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CA (1)