Comparing the Efficacy of Several Popular Online Interventions to Reduce Hazardous Alcohol Consumption

Sponsor

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Other)

Overall Status

Completed

CT.gov ID

NCT03060135

Collaborator

(none)

878

Enrollment

Location

Arms

7.9

Actual Duration (Months)

110.9

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

There are a number of popular, freely available online interventions targeting hazardous alcohol consumption. Unfortunately, most have limited or no published evidence regarding their efficacy. Of particular interest is the intervention, 'Hello Sunday Morning.' The current project proposes to evaluate its' efficacy employing a RCT, using The Check Your Drinking intervention as an active comparator in the trial.

Participants will be recruited through Amazon's MTurk crowdsourcing platform. Potential participants identified as problem drinkers based on an initial survey will be invited to complete another survey in 6 months time. Those who agree to be followed-up will be assigned by chance to be asked versus not asked to access one of the interventions and then recontacted 6 months later to ask about their drinking and their impressions of the online intervention. The primary hypothesis to be tested is that participants receiving access to any of the online interventions will report a greater level of reduction in number of drinks in a typical week between the baseline survey and six-month follow-up as compared to participants in the control condition.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Alcohol Consumption	Behavioral: Check Your Drinking Behavioral: Hello Sunday Morning	N/A

Study Design

Study Type:

Interventional

Actual Enrollment :

878 participants

Allocation:

Randomized

Intervention Model:

Parallel Assignment

Masking:

Single (Participant)

Primary Purpose:

Other

Official Title:

Comparing the Efficacy of Several Popular Online Interventions to Reduce Hazardous Alcohol Consumption: Randomized Controlled Trial

Actual Study Start Date :

Feb 24, 2017

Actual Primary Completion Date :

Oct 23, 2017

Actual Study Completion Date :

Oct 23, 2017

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
No Intervention: No Intervention: Control A questionnaire that asks individuals what components of an online intervention they might find useful.
Active Comparator: Check Your Drinking (CYD) The CYD is a brief online intervention designed to provide personalized normative feedback aimed at motivating reductions in drinking	Behavioral: Check Your Drinking A anonymous brief survey designed to provide normative feedback of individual's drinking with the intent of motivating reductions in drinking
Experimental: Hello Sunday Morning Internet based program designed to assess drinking patterns, and support self-determined goals for abstinence, by providing users with an online platform and community to discuss progress and goals.	Behavioral: Hello Sunday Morning Brief online intervention that allows Individual's reflect on their drinking reductions progress and goals.

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

No Intervention: No Intervention: Control

A questionnaire that asks individuals what components of an online intervention they might find useful.

Active Comparator: Check Your Drinking (CYD)

The CYD is a brief online intervention designed to provide personalized normative feedback aimed at motivating reductions in drinking

Behavioral: Check Your Drinking

A anonymous brief survey designed to provide normative feedback of individual's drinking with the intent of motivating reductions in drinking

Experimental: Hello Sunday Morning

Internet based program designed to assess drinking patterns, and support self-determined goals for abstinence, by providing users with an online platform and community to discuss progress and goals.

Behavioral: Hello Sunday Morning

Brief online intervention that allows Individual's reflect on their drinking reductions progress and goals.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Change in the variable, number of drinks in a typical week, from baseline measurement to 6-month follow-up [6 months]
Sum of number of drinks consumed in a typical week

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

18 Years and Older

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Inclusion Criteria:

18 years of age or over
A score of 8 or over on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT)
Typically consumes 15 or more drinks per week,
Willingness to complete a 6-month follow-up survey

Exclusion Criteria: None

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Centre for Addiction and Mental Health	Toronto	Ontario	Canada	M5S 2S1

Sponsors and Collaborators

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Investigators

Principal Investigator: John A Cunningham, PhD, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Additional Information:

Information about research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, and a PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre

Publications

None provided.

Responsible Party:

John Cunningham, Senior Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT03060135

Other Study ID Numbers:

11/13/2016

First Posted:

Feb 23, 2017

Last Update Posted:

Oct 25, 2017

Last Verified:

Oct 1, 2017

Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:

Plan to Share IPD:

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

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

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Alcohol Drinking

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Oct 25, 2017