CPNF Intervention Development and Testing
Project SHIFT
A User-Customizable Personalized Normative Feedback Intervention for Alcohol Harm Reduction in Young Adults: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy
2 other identifiers
interventional
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1 country
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Brief Summary
The project will develop brief interventions that allow participants to customize which groups they receive feedback for in relation to things such as drinking norms for younger or older students, student athletes, etc. The goal is to provide content that is meaningful and engaging to all users.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for not_applicable
Started Apr 2026
1 active site
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
First Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
April 8, 2025
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
June 25, 2025
CompletedStudy Start
First participant enrolled
April 1, 2026
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
September 1, 2026
ExpectedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
September 1, 2027
March 13, 2026
March 1, 2026
5 months
April 8, 2025
March 10, 2026
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (6)
Alcohol use - drinks per month
Daily Drinking Questionnaire will assess drinks on average over the past month by recording the number of drinks consumed on each day of a typical week. Response options range from 0 drinks to 25+ drinks. Lower score is a better outcome, higher score is a worse outcome.
Screening, Baseline, Follow-ups, an average of 3 months
Alcohol use - Quantity per occasion
Quantity/Frequency/Peak Alcohol Use Index will assess amount of alcohol consumed over the past month with how many days alcohol was consumed, average consumption, and peak consumption. Response options range from 0 to 30 days for frequency, and 1 to 12+ drinks for quantity and peak. Lower score is a better outcome, higher score is a worse outcome.
Screening, Baseline, Follow-ups, an average of 3 months
Alcohol use - Heavy episodic drinking
Heavy Episodic Drinking measure will assess how many times over the past month heavy drinking episodes occurred, defined as 4 or more drinks (females) or 5 or more drinks (males) on a single occasion. Response options range from 0 to 7 days. Lower score is a better outcome, higher score is a worse outcome.
Screening, Baseline, Follow-ups, an average of 3 months
Alcohol use - Peak drinks & peak BAC
Electronic Blood Alcohol content will be assessed and calculated using peak drinks over x amount of time. A lower BAC is a better outcome, a higher BAC is a worse outcome.
Screening, Baseline, Follow-ups, an average of 3 months
Alcohol use - Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test
The AUDIT is a 10-item self-report screening tool assessing hazardous and harmful alcohol use over the past year. Items are rated on varying 5-point Likert-type scales assessing frequency, quantity, and consequences of alcohol use. Lower score is a better outcome, higher score is a worse outcome.
Baseline, Follow-ups, an average of 3 months
Alcohol use - Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire
The Brief YAACQ is a 24-item assessment of alcohol-related consequences in young adults. Response options for the items are yes or no. Higher score (i.e. more 'yes' responses) is a worse outcome, lower score (i.e. more 'no' responses) is a better outcome.
Baseline, Follow-ups, an average of 3 months
Secondary Outcomes (2)
Perceived descriptive norms for each normative referent group
Baseline, Follow-ups, an average of 3 months
Perceived injunctive drinking norms for typical students at UW
Baseline, Follow-ups, an average of 3 months
Study Arms (3)
CPNF
ACTIVE COMPARATORCustomizable personalized normative feedback (CPNF) intervention whereby individuals can explore normative feedback for a wider variety of referent groups so that PNF is a truly personalized and engaging experience.
standard PNF
ACTIVE COMPARATORStandard personalized normative feedback.
Attention-Matched Control (AMC)
ACTIVE COMPARATORAttention-matched control.
Interventions
The CPNF intervention allows individuals to explore normative feedback for a wider variety of referent groups so that PNF is a truly personalized and engaging experience.
Correcting misperceptions about peers' alcohol use behaviors and contrasting one's own use to the actual norms of their peers.
Participants in the AMC condition will complete all measures at the same time as participants in the CPNF condition but will not receive any information on drinking norms. Instead, participants in the AMC will receive normative feedback on sleep health, video game use, and gambling behaviors, and will similarly be able to choose the normative referent groups they wish to view feedback on for these behaviors. The AMC will thus serve as a non-treatment comparison that controls for assessment reactivity and effects of history and maturation.
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Enrolled at the University of Washington either part- or full-time
- Report 3 or more past-month drinking occasions
- Report 3 or more drinks per occasion in the past month, on average
- Report 4 or more drinks during the peak drinking occasion in the past month
- Pass attention-check items
You may not qualify if:
- N/A
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Sites (1)
The University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, 98195, United States
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Mary Larimer, PhD
University of Washington
Central Study Contacts
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- SINGLE
- Who Masked
- PARTICIPANT
- Purpose
- PREVENTION
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
- PI Title
- Professor
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
April 8, 2025
First Posted
June 25, 2025
Study Start
April 1, 2026
Primary Completion (Estimated)
September 1, 2026
Study Completion (Estimated)
September 1, 2027
Last Updated
March 13, 2026
Record last verified: 2026-03
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will share
- Shared Documents
- STUDY PROTOCOL, ICF, ANALYTIC CODE
- Time Frame
- Data will be shared with the general research community at the time of an associated publication, or the end of the award/support period, whichever comes first.
- Access Criteria
- The data will be made available for sharing with the general research community via the NDA website. Investigators at institutions with a Federal Wide Assurance (FWA) will be able to gain access to NDA data by submitting a data access request in accordance with applicable NDA policies.
All scientific data (qualitative interview transcriptions, survey response data) will be both preserved and shared. Data will be made publicly available to the research community. This will include but may not be limited to (a) semi-structured interview questions, (b) survey items and corresponding response options (including missingness coding), (c) a codebook for scoring survey items and composite scales, (d) a detailed description of internally computed variables (e.g., time spent viewing intervention content), and (e) documentation of intervention components that participants were exposed to (both treatment and control conditions). Public use and restricted access study data and associated documentation will be made available to the research community free of charge through the NIAAA Data Archive.