Impact of Personalized Feedback Alone on Substance Use Behaviors

Brief Education to Reduce Health Care Consumers' Risky Substance Use Behaviors: How Brief is Brief?

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01501318

Enrollment

Registered

2011-12-29

Start date

2012-02-29

Completion date

2012-11-30

Last updated

2016-09-30

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Conditions

Substance Abuse

Keywords

SBIRT, brief intervention, alcohol, drug abuse

Brief summary

The investigators seek to develop a more efficient and effective approach to providing brief behavioral health interventions for risky substance use behaviors by comparing a brief coach directed intervention to a tailored report only group.

Detailed description

Screening and brief intervention (SBIRT) generally involves universal screening for risky substance use behaviors in medical settings and the immediate provision of a 3-15 minute intervention to those found to be at risk. In this pilot study, the investigators seek to develop a more efficient and effective approach to providing brief behavioral health interventions in the field by comparing a brief coach directed intervention to a tailored report only group. The goal is to create a cost-effective and sustainable system that provides consumers with tailored information that will help them both initiate and sustain the lifestyle changes necessary for improving their overall health. Hypothesis 1: In a medical setting, personalized feedback alone will be associated with a reduction in risky substance use behaviors. Hypothesis 2: In a medical setting, personalized feedback alone will have the same impact on behavior as that information plus a brief coach education session on risky substance use behaviors..

Interventions

BEHAVIORALPersonalized feedback report

Participants receive the personalized feedback report but no additional education.

BEHAVIORALPersonalized feedback report plus education

Participants receive the personalized feedback report plus education. This is the currently implemented service approach.

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

DOUBLE (Subject, Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 105 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Low level risky substance use

Exclusion criteria

* high substance use risk levels * potential alcohol or drug addiction or dependence

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Substance use behaviors and consequences	1 month follow-up	Interview questionnaire includes items concerning substance use behaviors (e.g., the number of drinks in the last 7 days) and consequences {e.g., ''During the past month, how often have you failed to do what was normally expected of you because of your use of alcohol?'

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Substance use behavioral intentions	1 month follow-up	Interview questionnaire that asks participants about their memory of the materials provided in the intervention, their motivation toward change, and their self-reported change efforts.

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026