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Decisions During Drinking

Decisions During Drinking: Phase 3 Feasibility Study

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT06978140
Acronym
D3
Enrollment
35
Registered
2025-05-18
Start date
2025-04-18
Completion date
2025-09-10
Last updated
2026-01-15

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Alcohol

Keywords

alcohol-related consequences

Brief summary

Decisions during drinking (D3) is randomized clinical feasibility trial assessing whether health-related materials created for young adults who want to have more positive experiences if they decide to drink alcohol are acceptable and usable. Enrolled participants will be randomized to receive the health-related messages in 5-7 online modules over the 20-30 days or to only receive assessments. Those randomized to receive the intervention will also receive text-messages with health message content during the 20-30 days. After completing the intervention, participants will report on the usability and acceptability of the material, which is the main outcome. For secondary outcomes, participants in both the intervention and control will report on their drinking and drinking-related consequences in the post-intervention questionnaire (or 30 days after initial questionnaire for control participants) and 1 month later.

Interventions

Material includes feedback on alcohol-related consequences with elements from Acceptance Commitment Therapy, Relapse Prevention, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Behavioral Activation. Focus of the intervention is learning about personal environmental cues.

Sponsors

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
CollaboratorNIH
University of Washington
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 24 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Aged 18-24 * At least 1 occurrence of heavy drinking in the past month * At least 2 alcohol related consequences in the past month * Live in Washington State * Agree to be randomized to receive intervention to assessment only control * Ability to receive SMS text-messages * Complete Identification verification

Exclusion criteria

* Not meeting inclusion criteria * Not being able to verify identification

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Usability of interventionFrom invitation to the first intervention module to end of modules being available 37 days laterUsability of the intervention is assessed in the intervention group only using a 10-item scale with response options that range from 1 strongly disagree to 5 strongly agree
Acceptability of the interventionFrom invitation to the first intervention module to end of modules being available 37 days laterAcceptability of the intervention is assessed only in the intervention group using a questionnaire of 11 items each of which is participants will provide as response between 1 Strongly Disagree to 7 Strongly Agree.
Feasibility of interventionFrom invitation to the first intervention module to the end of the study 2 months laterFeasibility will be assessed by the percentage of participants randomized to the intervention that complete the intervention and the 1 month follow-up assessment

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Alcohol consumptionFrom completion of baseline survey to 1 month follow-up approximately 67 days laterAlcohol consumption will be assessed using the Daily drinking questionnaire, which assesses the number of drinks consumed each day in a typical week in the past month
Alcohol related consequencesFrom completion of baseline survey to 1 month follow-up approximately 67 days laterPast month alcohol related consequences will be assessed with 49 questions from several scales including the Rutgers Alcohol Problems Index, Young Adult Alcohol Problems Scale, and the Alcohol-Related Sexual Consequences. All questions except the Alcohol-Related Sexual Consequences are answered on a scale of 0 Never to 4 More than 10 times. Alcohol-Related Sexual Consequences responses are 0 No and 1 Yes to indicate any occurrence in the past month.

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

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