College Student Alcohol Behaviors and Strategies
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: Protective Behavioral Strategies, Goal-Setting.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Alcohol Use. Basic parameters: 18 years — 25 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
The primary goal of this clinical trial is to examine whether the use of personalized goal setting related to protective behavioral strategies (PBS)-behavioral techniques enacted before, during, or after alcohol consumption to reduce risk and minimize harm-increases the use of personally selected PBS implementation. A secondary goal of this trial is to examine whether increasing the frequency of PBS use will lead to decreases in alcohol consumption, fewer alcohol-related negative consequences, and increased alcohol-related positive consequences. Researchers will compare a control condition, a PBS-only condition, and a PBS+Goals condition to address the aims of the study. Participants in all conditions will complete measures about current PBS use, alcohol use and consequences, and likelihood and confidence to change current alcohol and strategy use. All participants will receive brief psychoeducation on PBS. Participants in the PBS-only and PBS+Goals condition will select three PBS to use over the following two weeks, and select a strategy for remembering the PBS they chose. Participants in the PBS+Goals condition will receive psychoeducation about goal setting and identify two goals related to each PBS strategy they selected. Participants in all conditions will complete a follow-up after two weeks containing measures about PBS use, alcohol use and consequences, and likelihood and confidence to change alcohol and strategy use. Participants in the PBS-only and PBS+Goals condition will complete a measure to indicate whether they used the reminder strategy they selected at the two-week follow-up. Participants in the PBS+Goals condition will complete a measure indicating whether they believe they achieved their goals at the two-week follow-up.
Interventions
- Behavioral Protective Behavioral Strategies
Participants receive psychoeducation about protective behavioral strategies and are asked to choose three strategies that they do not already engage in regularly but would be willing to start using more. - Behavioral Goal-Setting
Participants receive psychoeducation about protective behavioral strategies and goal-setting. They are asked to choose three strategies that they do not already engage in regularly and identify two goals related to each strategy.
Primary outcome measures
- Protective Behavioral Strategy Use [Time frame: Baseline and two-week follow-up.]
- Alcohol Use [Time frame: Baseline and two-week follow-up]
- Negative Alcohol-Related Consequences [Time frame: Baseline and two-week follow-up]
- Positive Alcohol-Related Consequences [Time frame: Baseline and two-week follow-up]
Secondary outcome measures (2)
- Likelihood to Change [Time frame: Baseline and two-week follow-up]
- Confidence in Changing [Time frame: Baseline and two-week-follow-up]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Must report being between the ages of 18-25
- Must report engaging in alcohol use at least one time per week over the past two weeks, on average
Exclusion criteria
- Reports currently receiving or having received treatment for their alcohol or other substance use during the past two months
- Age below 18 or above 25 years
- Does not report having engaged in alcohol use at least one time per week over the past two weeks, on average
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
- Supportive care
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- University of Wyoming — Laramie
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07156305 · IRB-2025-254