Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts, 02115-5005, United States
Location status: Recruiting
Location contact
Allie Farone, M.S.
CONTACT
Jade Martinez, B.S.
CONTACT
Robert F Leeman, PhD
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
NCT Number: NCT06994962
This is the third stage of a three-stage, NIH-funded study to develop and test a multi-modal intervention concerning blood/breath alcohol concentration for young adults who drink heavily. The multimodal intervention will be made up of brief telehealth counseling and psychoeducation and use of three existing mobile technologies. The brief counseling/psychoeducation and mobile technologies provide personalized feedback regarding blood or breath alcohol content. The long-term goal of use of these mobile technologies will be to facilitate moderate drinking. However, the main goals of the proposed research are to learn more about feasibility of our procedures, perceived value of the technologies and ease of use from the research participants' points of view. In this third stage of the study, the investigators will conduct a randomized controlled trial building on the formative research conducted in Stages 1 and 2.
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Request Info18 year–25 year
All sexes
Interventional
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Boston, Massachusetts, 02115-5005, United States
Location status: Recruiting
Allie Farone, M.S.
CONTACT
Jade Martinez, B.S.
CONTACT
Robert F Leeman, PhD
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes
Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.
Exclusion criteria
No subject may:
Participants will be asked to use the mobile technologies as they choose while drinking for a four-week period.
Other names: Smartphone Breathalyzer, BAC Estimator App, Self-Texting App
Brief 25/30-minute motivational interview and psychoeducation on blood/breath alcohol concentration that includes both personalized and standardized information.
Other names: M.I.
Study staff will review instructions for technology use closely with participants and guide them in use of existing phone technologies as reminders for use of the three moderate drinking technologies during drinking situations.
Participants will use an app developed during the study, SmartSip, that will provide protective behavioral strategies and reminders for use of the three moderate drinking technologies during drinking situations.
Other names: SmartSip
Brief 25/30-minute psychoeducation on generalized alcohol use providing information about alcohol and its effects, adapted from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Rethinking Drinking resources
Participants will be able to prompt text messages which will provide them one-off trivia facts using information provided during the attention control psychoeducation session
Time frame: 4-week field use period
Percentage of reported drinking days on which one reports that moderate drinking technology use has occurred
Time frame: 4-week field use period
Score on acceptability subscale of Modified System Usability Scale
Time frame: 4-week field use period
Score on acceptability subscale of Modified System Usability Scale
Time frame: 4-week field use period
Number of drinks per day during field testing period
Time frame: 4-week field use period
Average estimated blood alcohol content reached on drinking days
Time frame: 4-week field use period
Score on the Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire
Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.
Allie Farone, M.S.
CONTACT
Jade Martinez, B.S.
CONTACT
Northeastern University
Other
Development and Initial Testing of a Multi-Component Breath Alcohol-Focused Intervention for Young Adults, Stage 3
Acronym: BAMTECH
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