Computerized Alcohol Misuse Intervention System for Health Care

Summary

This project expands upon the proof-of-concept work done under the pilot project in order to get Interventionaire© poised for more widespread use. Interventionaire© is designed to deploy a computerized interactive questionnaire to patients in a physician waiting room. The information gathered is intended to be a conversation starter for primary care providers and patients (who may feel more at ease with the computer in revealing health risk behaviors, like alcohol abuse). Widespread use of Interventionaire© could result in a substantial cost savings by delivering a wide reaching and highly acceptable prevention strategy for integrating risky health behavior screening and brief intervention into mainstream medical practice.The investigators overall hypothesis is that participants receiving the computerized intervention will have greater improvement than those receiving the attention control condition.

Conditions

• Alcoholism

Interventions

OTHER

Computerized Alcohol Misuse Intervention

Interventionaire© is a computerized alcohol misuse intervention that includes a normative feedback component unique in its micro-targeting of alcohol use feedback based on participant demographic characteristics (race/ethnicity, gender, and age), drawing population normative data from the National Surveys on Drug Use and Health. This represents a novel use of epidemiological data to inform clinical services.

OTHER

Attention Control (AC)

These products are designed for entertainment and educational purposes only. No medical claims are made for them and, the participant's interaction with them should be conceptually unrelated to alcohol use behavior.In order to avoid any carryover effect from comparing two active treatments, we have chosen to use a simple attention control condition that is not expected to exert any real intervention effect. In that way, the effect size estimate of the intervention can be readily calculated. No research data will be collected as part of the AC, beyond the amount of time spent on the program.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  collaborator OTHER

• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

  collaborator NIH

• Research Circle Associates, LLC

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Diana H Caldwell, PhD · Research Circle Associates

• Arti P Varanasi, PhD, MPH · Advancing Synergy

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SCREENING

Masking

NONE

Model

CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2016-11-30

Primary Completion

2017-04-17

Completion

2017-04-17

Countries

• United States

Study Locations