ACE: Attitudes & College Experiences

Sponsor

Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (Other)

Overall Status

Completed

CT.gov ID

NCT04026633

Collaborator

(none)

134

Enrollment

Location

Arms

36.7

Actual Duration (Months)

3.7

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

High volume drinking by young adults has proven resistant to long term change, so new approaches are needed. Given strong associations between alcohol-related attitudes and drinking behavior, the investigators adapt a theory-based attitude change strategy for use in alcohol prevention. This research tests the impact of a brief counter attitudinal advocacy activity on subsequent drinking and negative consequences.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Alcohol Abuse	Behavioral: CAA Behavioral: Control	N/A

Detailed Description

The persistence of risky drinking among young adults in college calls for continued efforts to prevent harms related to alcohol. Current prevention interventions have achieved some success, but rely on a single mechanism of change: correcting exaggerated drinking norms. The investigators propose to test a novel prevention strategy targeting another mechanism of change: creating attitude-behavior dissonance. To date, changing alcohol-related attitudes and the resulting attitude-behavior discrepancy has been underutilized as a behavior change strategy for alcohol abuse prevention. Informed by an extensive literature showing strong and consistent associations between alcohol attitudes and drinking behavior, the investigators adapted a brief counter-attitudinal advocacy (CAA) manipulation to the alcohol prevention context.

Study Design

Study Type:

Interventional

Actual Enrollment :

134 participants

Allocation:

Randomized

Intervention Model:

Parallel Assignment

Masking:

Single (Participant)

Primary Purpose:

Treatment

Official Title:

Using Counter Attitudinal Advocacy to Change Drinking Behavior & Related Problems

Actual Study Start Date :

Apr 10, 2019

Actual Primary Completion Date :

Apr 30, 2022

Actual Study Completion Date :

Apr 30, 2022

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: Experimental: Enhanced Intervention Participants assigned to this arm will complete a personal writing task about alcohol use.	Behavioral: CAA Participants will write about the use of PBS and alcohol use.
Placebo Comparator: Placebo Comparator Participants assigned to this arm will complete a personal writing task about eating behaviors.	Behavioral: Control Participants will write about eating and exercise.

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

Experimental: Experimental: Enhanced Intervention

Participants assigned to this arm will complete a personal writing task about alcohol use.

Behavioral: CAA

Participants will write about the use of PBS and alcohol use.

Placebo Comparator: Placebo Comparator

Participants assigned to this arm will complete a personal writing task about eating behaviors.

Behavioral: Control

Participants will write about eating and exercise.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Change in Alcohol Consumption from Baseline to 1-Month [1 month after baseline]
Average of reports from past 30 days on the number of standard drinks consumed by participant over the past 30 days.
Change in Alcohol-related consequences from Baseline to 1- and 3-Months [1 month and 3 months after baseline]
The Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire (BYAACQ) (Kahler et al., 2005) is a 24-item self-administered checklist of problems related to drinking; responses are dichotomous (yes/no) and refer to the past month which was collected at baseline and 5-months. The BYAACQ demonstrates strong psychometric properties and is free of gender bias (Kahler et al., 2005).

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

18 Years to 26 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

18-24 years of age
Enrolled in the university's undergraduate four-year degree program
Past month heavy episodic drinking (for men, >5 drinks in one day, for women >4 drinks in one day)
At least two self-reported negative consequence from drinking in the past month

Exclusion Criteria:

• Status as a graduating senior

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Brooklyn College	Brooklyn	New York	United States	11210

Sponsors and Collaborators

Brooklyn College of the City University of New York

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

Responsible Party:

Angelo DiBello, Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT04026633

Other Study ID Numbers:

R21AA025676

First Posted:

Jul 19, 2019

Last Update Posted:

Aug 5, 2022

Last Verified:

Aug 1, 2022

Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:

Yes

Plan to Share IPD:

Yes

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product:

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product:

Keywords provided by Angelo DiBello, Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York

Alcohol Intervention

College Students

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Alcoholism

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Aug 5, 2022