The MIDY pilot trial (Mobile Intervention for Drinking in Young people)

None listed

Our proposal is to take brief interventions, proven to have a significant impact on young people's drinking, and apply them in the mobile realm during actual drinking occasions. The intervention will consist of hourly mobile assessment and feedback. While on a night out, participants will receive hourly reminders to complete a very brief questionnaire through an online survey accessed via the SMS message. The questionnaire will involve hourly reports of their alcohol consumption and spending, where they are, and their mood. They will then receive an individually tailored feedback message via SMS in response to these data, which aims to stop or slow down their drinking, or avoid harmful consequences of drinking. The intervention will be delivered on 6 drinking occasions (nights) over a 12 week period. This study aims to determine the impact of a tailored brief intervention delivered by mobile phone on young people's high-risk alcohol consumption. We will use a randomised controlled trial design to generate high quality evidence of the impact of this intervention on single occasion risky drinking among young people. This will be the world's first randomised controlled trial of a mobile delivered brief intervention to reduce alcohol consumption.