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Project Guard: Reducing Alcohol Misuse/Abuse in the National Guard

NCT02860442 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 850

Last updated 2021-09-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The overall goal for the study is to test the efficacy of a smartphone app which includes an alcohol brief intervention (SP-BI) versus an Enhanced Usual Care (EUC) condition for National Guard members in the State of Ohio who meet criteria for at-risk drinking in the previous 4 months. The main hypothesis is that those in the SP-BI group with have reduced frequency and intensity of at-risk drinking and fewer binge drinking episodes.

Conditions

  • Alcohol Use

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Smartphone brief intervention (SP-BI)

Participants in the SP-BI group will receive a 20-30 minute intervention through an app program based on the FRAMES format: providing personalized Feedback (regarding substance use, risk factors), emphasis on Responsibility for change, Advice, Menu of options, Empathic clinical behaviors, and support of Self-efficacy regarding making changes. The intervention is designed to address the target behavior of alcohol use, and will include a tailored review of participants' goals/values, feedback regarding their alcohol use patterns and consequences (either actual experiences or potential based on risk behaviors), developing a discrepancy between their alcohol use and ability to meet goals and values through a decisional balance exercise, and formulation of a "change plan".

OTHER

Enhanced Usual Care (EUC)

Those assigned to EUC will receive an informational brochure with resources available to members of the military related to mental health and alcohol use. They will be contacted to complete 4-, 8-, and 12-month follow-up assessments.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Case Western Reserve University

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Michigan

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Toledo Health Science Campus

    collaborator OTHER

  • Keming Gao

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Frederic C Blow, PhD · Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-03-01
Primary Completion
2021-05-31
Completion
2021-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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