PAIRS: Friend-Based AISA Intervention

NCT07433270 | Not Yet Recruiting DMC

• 1 other identifier: 00009969
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 560
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This Phase 2 trial will to examine the efficacy of a brief dyad-based motivational interview (PAIRS MI) delivered to friend dyads with an active treatment-as-usual condition, and a 1-year follow-up.

Conditions

Sexual Violence; College Drinking; Behavioral Changes

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Alcohol-Involved Sexual Assault

  Revised Sexual Experiences Survey (R-SES) will be used to assess each social occasion with the target friend in the prior 2 weeks. Each item will be coded 1 (yes) or 0 (no), based on whether it happened to the woman/friend on each occasion that the pair socialized together.

  This will be completed during Baseline, 1 month follow-up, 3 month follow-up, 6 month follow-up, 9 month follow-up, and 12 month follow-up

• Change in Drinking

  Using a grid-based average assessment measure based in the Daily Drinking Questionnaire, participants will report on alcohol consumption. Higher scores indicate greater alcohol consumption.

  This will be completed during Baseline, 1 month follow-up, 3 month follow-up, 6 month follow-up, 9 month follow-up, and 12 month follow-up

Secondary Outcomes (6)

• Change in Readiness to Intervene

  This will be completed during Baseline, 1 month follow-up, 3 month follow-up, 6 month follow-up, 9 month follow-up, and 12 month follow-up

• Change in Peer-Directed Bystander Behaviors Scale for Strangers

  This will be completed during Baseline, 1 month follow-up, 3 month follow-up, 6 month follow-up, 9 month follow-up, and 12 month follow-up

• Changes to Assault Protective Strategies

  This will be completed during Baseline, 1 month follow-up, 3 month follow-up, 6 month follow-up, 9 month follow-up, and 12 month follow-up

• Change to Barriers to Sexual Assault Bystander Intervention

  This will be completed during Baseline, 1 month follow-up, 3 month follow-up, 6 month follow-up, 9 month follow-up, and 12 month follow-up

• Change to Concerns About Intervening

  This will be completed during Baseline, 1 month follow-up, 3 month follow-up, 6 month follow-up, 9 month follow-up, and 12 month follow-up

Study Arms (2)

FMI

EXPERIMENTAL

Behavioral: Friend-Based Motivational Interview

treatment-as-usual

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Behavioral: Treatment as usual (TAU)

Interventions

Friend-Based Motivational Interview BEHAVIORAL

The intervention will use Motivational Interviewing's (MI) collaborative conversation style for strengthening commitment to change, to motivate and prepare women to work together to reduce Sexual Assault (SA) risk. This intervention will target ways that the friend dyad may support, encourage, and share responsibility with one another in protecting against SA. The Friend-based MI (FMI) will then use the responsibility and relationship of friends as a framework to foster collaborative efforts to increase readiness and decrease barriers to helping behavior. As part of this, the FMI will focus on the identification and implementation of skills friends can use to help one another prevent sexual assault. FMI will include a focused discussion of the ways drinking may impede helping efforts. Moreover, the FMI will encourage women to identify personal, specific strategies for reducing the effects of alcohol on helping.

FMI

Treatment as usual (TAU) BEHAVIORAL

This 65-minute single-session stand-alone course is a supplemental component of the EverFi (Vector Solutions) Sexual Assault Prevention for Undergraduate Students prevention suite that is administered in an online didactic format. All participants (intervention and control) will have completed the basic course of the Sexual Assault Prevention for Undergraduate Students at matriculation, per university requirements. For the current study, the supplemental Healthy Relationships component will be administered only to participants assigned to the control condition. Healthy Relationships focuses on relationship skills, strategies for taking action in risky situations, and intervention skill practice.

treatment-as-usual

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 24 Years
• Gender Eligibility Details: People who identify as women
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Women
• or more drinks in a single sitting 2 or more times monthly in the past 3 months
• does not live at home with parents
• reports going out (not necessarily drinking) with the other member of their dyad \> 1/week

You may not qualify if:

• Can not speak and understand English sufficiently

Sponsors & Collaborators

• State University of New York at Buffalo: lead

Study Sites (1)

University at Buffalo Department of Psychology

Buffalo, New York, 14260, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Alcohol Drinking in College

Interventions

Therapeutics

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Alcohol Drinking; Drinking Behavior; Behavior

Study Officials

• Jennifer P Read, Ph.D.

  University at Buffalo

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Jennifer P Read, Ph.D.

CONTACT

7166450193; jpread@buffalo.edu

Dylan Vlaovich

CONTACT

716-310-3965; dylanvla@buffalo.edu

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: SUNY Distinguished Professor and Chair of Department of Psychology

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 19, 2026
• First Posted: February 25, 2026
• Study Start: April 1, 2026
• Primary Completion (Estimated): March 1, 2030
• Study Completion (Estimated): August 1, 2030
• Last Updated: April 23, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP, ICF, CSR, ANALYTIC CODE
• Access Criteria: There must be an articulation of a clear research question and analytic plan by an established investigator with the relevant credentials. The information will be shared as a digital file through email.

Locations

US (1)