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Exploring Whether Self-affirmation Promotes Reduced Alcohol Consumption in Response to Narrative Health Information

NCT02681900 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 142

Last updated 2016-02-15

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Summary

This study tests the effects of a self-affirmation manipulation on (i) acceptance of a health message detailing the risks of alcohol consumption, (ii) engagement with the health message and (iii) alcohol consumption at 7-day follow-up. Half of the participants complete a self-affirmation manipulation, where they reflect on their most important values, whereas the other half complete a control equivalent, where they reflect on their least important values. Immediately post-intervention, all participants then receive information about the risks of alcohol consumption and complete measures of message acceptance and engagement with the materials. Seven days after intervention, participants self-report their alcohol consumption in the previous 7 days.

Conditions

  • Alcohol Drinking

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Self-affirmation manipulation task

Participants in the self-affirmation condition indicate their most important value, give three examples of why this value is important to them and one example of something they had done to demonstrate its importance.

BEHAVIORAL

Control task

People in the control condition indicate their least important value, three examples of why that value could be important to someone else, and describe something that person could do to show its importance.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Sussex

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Kerry J Fox, MSc · University of Sussex

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-10-31
Primary Completion
2014-12-31
Completion
2014-12-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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