Evaluating Telehealth Delivery of Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: BASICS, Online alcohol programming.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Alcohol Consumption. Basic parameters: 18 years — 26 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
This research study will test the efficacy of a telehealth version of the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS), which is the gold standard prevention and intervention approach to target heavy alcohol use on college campuses across the United States.
Detailed description
In this study, the researchers will evaluate the efficacy of a tele-BASICS approach utilizing the ZOOM application compared to in-person BASICS and a lower threshold treatment as usual intervention. Three hundred mandated and 300 volunteer students who report hazardous drinking will be recruited from two large universities and randomly assigned to a condition (in-person BASICS, Tele-BASICS, or treatment as usual). Follow-up assessments will occur 1-, 3-, 6-, and 12-months post-baseline. The significance of this research lies in the potential to maximize access to the highest standard of care by establishing support for easier access without sacrificing any central features of the traditional BASICS intervention. In addition, many universities pragmatically adapted existing in-person interventions to remote-telehealth approaches in response to the COVID pandemic but now have no scientific basis for determining whether transitioning back to in-person approaches would be beneficial.
Interventions
- Behavioral BASICS
The intervention is the BASICS protocol outlined in the BASICS manual. It includes an online self-administered assessment and then delivery of a feedback session either in-person or over Zoom. - Behavioral Online alcohol programming
This is a control intervention that is used as the first-line sanction for students at the two universities. It is an online program, informed by BASICS content, but contains no facilitator and is self-directed.
Primary outcome measures
- Alcohol use [Time frame: Assessed over the course of 12 months]
- Alcohol-related consequences [Time frame: Assessed over the course of 12 months]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Completion rates [Time frame: One time assessment at end of program, after 1 session is completed 1 to 2 weeks post-baseline]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- between 18 and 26 years of age
- fluent in understanding English
- a registered student at one of the two intervention sites
- adequate internet capabilities to support video-conferencing
- access to a webcam, which is a standard features of most laptops, mobile devices, and desktops
- engage in binge drinking (i.e., 4 or more standard drinks in a sitting for women or 5 or more standard drinks in a sitting for men) at least once in the past month (for the volunteer sample only)
- experienced at least one negative alcohol-related consequence in the previous month (mandated students would meet this due to receiving an alcohol sanction)
- reports a score of 2 or higher on questions about a) interest in reducing their drinking, or b) interest in not increasing their drinking.
Exclusion criteria
- not meeting inclusion criteria or unwillingness to participate
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- University of Houston — Houston
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06774300 · R01AA031252 · R01AA031252