Alcohol Consumption, Youth, Alcohol Drinking
Conditions
Brief summary
Heavy episodic drinking (HED) among college students remains a concern within the U.S., as rates of HED are still high in this population. Though a variety of brief motivational interventions for alcohol use in college students have demonstrated significant effects, these effects are often small and not consistently maintained over time. Personalized feedback interventions (PFIs) are a particularly promising approach, as these are often acceptable to college students, as well as low-cost, and easy to disseminate. Though presentation of interperson discrepancy via descriptive and injunctive norms has shown consistent effects within PFIs and received much attention in the literature, intraperson, or ideal-actual self discrepancies, has largely been ignored. Drawing from cognitive dissonance theory, self-regulation theory, and motivational interviewing, the current study aims to evaluate the efficacy of an alcohol PFI with a values component to incorporate ideal-self discrepancy into a typical intervention.
Interventions
OTHERPersonalized Feedback Intervention with Values
The PFI with values will include information commonly included in personalized feedback interventions for alcohol use, such as norms information and drinking profile, as well as feedback on three of the assessed values that are highly important to the participant.
OTHERPersonalized Feedback Intervention Traditional
This PFI will include information on drinking profile, norms, behavioral strategies used while drinking, and practical costs related to drinking reframed as monetary values and caloric values.
Sponsors
Oklahoma State University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Must be at least 18 years of age * Must be able to speak and read English * Must report consuming alcohol in a typical week over the past month
Exclusion criteria
* Must not deny drinking within the past month * Non-English speaking * Under the age of 18
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alcohol consumption | one-month post baseline | measured by drinks per week |
| Alcohol consequences | one month post-baseline | measured by the BYAACQ to determine number of consequences experienced in the past month post-baseline |
| Value-behavior discrepancy for values related to alcohol use | one month post-baseline | Measured by the VLQ-A to measure change in behavioral consistency with values specifically related to alcohol use one month post-baseline |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Perceptions of norms | one month post-baseline | Perceptions of descriptive norms will be more accurate one month post-baseline |
| Trait mindfulness | one month post-baseline | Levels of mindfulness as measured by the FFMQ will be measured at both time points |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed