Brief Religious Alcohol Intervention

NCT04075773 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: STUDY00001734
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 203
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study is a trial of a brief alcohol intervention, a brief expressive writing intervention that incorporates religious identity.

Conditions

Heavy Drinking

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change in the Timeline Follow-Back one month following the intervention

  Participants report number of drinks consumed each day over the last month.

  It will be assessed before the intervention and one month following the intervention.

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Chang in the Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire one month following the intervention

  It will be assessed before the intervention and one month following the intervention.

Study Arms (2)

Religious Prompt

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants will be provided a writing prompt that describes their self-reported drinking, then asks them to write for 5 to 10 minutes about how that drinking is associated with their self-reported religious identity. After completing that writing assignment, participants will be shown their response, and asked to spend 5 to 10 minutes describing how their drinking behaviors in the next month might change.

Behavioral: Expressive Writing

Age Prompt

SHAM COMPARATOR

Participants will be provided a writing prompt that describes their self-reported drinking, then asks them to write for 5 to 10 minutes about how that drinking is associated with their self-reported age. After completing that writing assignment, participants will be shown their response, and asked to spend 5 to 10 minutes describing how their drinking behaviors in the next month might change.

Behavioral: Expressive Writing

Interventions

Expressive Writing BEHAVIORAL

The participants are asked to write for a period of time about specific concepts so that they think carefully and cognitively process the information they are generating.

Age Prompt; Religious Prompt

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 29 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• to 29 years old
• Have had a binge episode (4/5 drinks on one occasion for women/men) at least once in the past month
• UH students

You may not qualify if:

• Participants who are currently enrolled in treatment for alcohol or other substances
• Participants who have been diagnosed with and/or treated for verbal learning disabilities

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Houston: lead

Study Sites (1)

University of Houston Psychology Department

Houston, Texas, 77004, United States

Location

Study Officials

• Mary M Tomkins, M.S.

  University of Houston

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, CARE PROVIDER
• Masking Details: Participants will not be made aware of the purpose of the study. Research assistants, who interact with the participants, will not be made aware of which writing prompt any given participant will receive.
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Graduate Research Assistant

Model Details: Participants will be randomized to either an intervention condition, where they will write about how their drinking relates to their religious identity, or to a control condition, where they will write about how their drinking relates to their age.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 28, 2019
• First Posted: September 3, 2019
• Study Start: September 4, 2019
• Primary Completion: August 11, 2020
• Study Completion: August 11, 2020
• Last Updated: August 14, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-08

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)