What is the Active Ingredient in Personalized Feedback Interventions for Problem Drinkers? A Randomized Controlled Trial

The major objective of this project is to conduct a randomized controlled trial comparing the impact of the normative feedback and other personalized feedback components of the Check Your Drinking (CYD) Internet-based intervention in the general population. Eligible problem drinking participants will be randomly assigned to one of four conditions in a 2 by 2 design - to receive just the normative feedback component of the CYD intervention, just the other personalized feedback information, to a no intervention control condition, or to receive the full CYD intervention. The no intervention control condition will not be sent any intervention materials but will instead be sent a list of the different components of the CYD feedback and will be asked to think about how useful they would find each of them. All participants will be followed-up at 3 months.

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Key information

Conditions

Problem Drinking Alcohol-Related Disorders Alcoholism Chemically-Induced Disorders Mental Disorders Substance-Related Disorders

Age range

19 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2S1, Canada

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

problem drinkers as measured by an AUDIT score of 8 or more

Exclusion criteria

none

Treatment and study plan

Check Your Drinking (CYD) personalized feedback intervention

Behavioral

The CYD provides problem drinkers with a personalized summary of their drinking that compares his or her drinking with that of the general population. The CYD also provides an assessment of the severity of the person's drinking problem.

Primary outcomes

Drinks in a typical week

Time frame: 3 months

Number of drinks in a typical week
AUDIT-C score

Time frame: 3 months

Composite measure of three drinking items - frequency of drinking, drinks per drinking day, frequency of 5+ drinking days
Highest number of drinks on one occasion

Time frame: 3 months

Highest number of drinks on one occasion in the past 3 months

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start: 2012
Primary completion: 2013
Study completion: 2013
First posted: May 31, 2012
Registry last updated: Dec 9, 2014

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