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Game-Based Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Use Among Youth

No phase Interventional Alcohol Problem

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What is being studied
The protocol lists: Food4Thought, Singularities.
Who it may be relevant to
Registry conditions: Alcohol Problem. Basic parameters: 14 years — 18 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
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Official title

A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Game-Based Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Use Among Youth

Overview

This is a randomized controlled trial to learn if the Singularities, a game-based intervention, works to reduce alcohol-related harms among youth. It will also learn if Singularities reduces alcohol use behaviors and improves alcohol protective behavioral strategies, adaptive coping skills, and healthy social media use. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Does Singularities reduce the frequency of experiencing alcohol-related harms and alcohol use behaviors? * Does Singularities improve alcohol protective behavioral strategies, adaptive coping skills, and healthy social media use? Researchers will compare Singularities to an attention control program, Food4Thought, a game-based intervention about nutrition, physical activity, and teen well-being, to see if Singularities works to reduce alcohol-related harms. Participants will: * Partake in either Singularities or Food4Thought, both of which will be completed over the course of one month * Take 4 online surveys over the course of one year * Complete an optional online interview after the surveys

Interventions

  • Behavioral Food4Thought
    Food4Thought is an attention control condition in which participants receive similar amounts of research team contact and program contact as the intervention. Participants will play the game Pick Your Plate! A Global Guide to Nutrition, developed by the Smithsonian Science Education Center. Participants are instructed to build healthy meals using cuisine from around the world while ensuring they stick to a budget and meet all their nutritional needs. Food4Thought will be delivered via Qualtrics.
  • Behavioral Singularities
    Singularities is a theory-based, community-informed, web-accessible intervention that includes a game, discussion board, and resources that incorporate 3 components for encouraging use of adaptive coping skills, alcohol protective behavioral strategies, and healthy internet and social media use.

Primary outcome measures

  • Alcohol-related harms [Time frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months]
Secondary outcome measures (9)
  • Drinking quantity [Time frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months]
  • Drinking frequency [Time frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months]
  • Binge drinking frequency [Time frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months]
  • Alcohol use initiation [Time frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months]
  • Alcohol protective behavioral strategies [Time frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months]
  • Bystander alcohol risk reduction skills [Time frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months]
  • Emotional distress tolerance skills [Time frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months]
  • Emotion regulation and decentering practices [Time frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months]
  • Healthy social media use [Time frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months]

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteria

  • Able to comfortably participate in English
  • Live in the U.S.
  • 14-18 years old
  • Have an internet-accessible computer, smart phone, or tablet
  • Provide an email address
  • Have drank alcohol in their lifetime or intend to in the next year

Exclusion criteria

\- None

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
Open label
Primary purpose
Prevention

Study locations

United States · 1 center
  • University of Pittsburgh — Pittsburgh

Identifiers

NCT: NCT07463118 · STUDY25100213 · 5R01AA030017-03

Primary sources (government registries)

View this study on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗