CPNF Intervention Development and Testing

Official title

A User-Customizable Personalized Normative Feedback Intervention for Alcohol Harm Reduction in Young Adults: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy

Overview

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.

Detailed description

The project will develop and pilot test an innovative paradigm for leveraging social norms within brief interventions that entails user customization of which (and how many) normative referent groups they receive feedback for so that the content is meaningful and engaging to all users.

Interventions

• Behavioral Customizable personalized normative feedback (CPNF)
  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.
• Behavioral Personalized normative feedback (PNF)
  Correcting misperceptions about peers' alcohol use behaviors and contrasting one's own use to the actual norms of their peers.
• Behavioral Attention-Matched Control (AMC)
  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 react

Primary outcome measures

• Alcohol use - drinks per month [Time frame: Screening, Baseline, Follow-ups, an average of 3 months]
• Alcohol use - Quantity per occasion [Time frame: Screening, Baseline, Follow-ups, an average of 3 months]
• Alcohol use - Heavy episodic drinking [Time frame: Screening, Baseline, Follow-ups, an average of 3 months]
• Alcohol use - Peak drinks & peak BAC [Time frame: Screening, Baseline, Follow-ups, an average of 3 months]
• Alcohol use - Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test [Time frame: Baseline, Follow-ups, an average of 3 months]
• Alcohol use - Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire [Time frame: Baseline, Follow-ups, an average of 3 months]

Secondary outcome measures (2)

• Perceived descriptive norms for each normative referent group [Time frame: Baseline, Follow-ups, an average of 3 months]
• Perceived injunctive drinking norms for typical students at UW [Time frame: Baseline, Follow-ups, an average of 3 months]

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteria

• 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

Exclusion criteria

N/A

Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.

Healthy volunteers: No

Study design

Allocation

Randomized

Model

Parallel assignment

Masking

Single blind

Primary purpose

Prevention

Study locations

United States · 1 center

• The University of Washington — Seattle

Identifiers

NCT: NCT07036198 · STUDY00021161 · R34AA031336

Primary sources (government registries)

• ClinicalTrials.gov (US NIH)

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