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Comparing the Efficacy of Several Popular Online Interventions to Reduce Hazardous Alcohol Consumption

NCT03060135 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 878

Last updated 2017-10-25

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Summary

There are a number of popular, freely available online interventions targeting hazardous alcohol consumption. Unfortunately, most have limited or no published evidence regarding their efficacy. Of particular interest is the intervention, 'Hello Sunday Morning.' The current project proposes to evaluate its' efficacy employing a RCT, using The Check Your Drinking intervention as an active comparator in the trial.

Participants will be recruited through Amazon's MTurk crowdsourcing platform. Potential participants identified as problem drinkers based on an initial survey will be invited to complete another survey in 6 months time. Those who agree to be followed-up will be assigned by chance to be asked versus not asked to access one of the interventions and then recontacted 6 months later to ask about their drinking and their impressions of the online intervention. The primary hypothesis to be tested is that participants receiving access to any of the online interventions will report a greater level of reduction in number of drinks in a typical week between the baseline survey and six-month follow-up as compared to participants in the control condition.

Conditions

  • Alcohol Consumption

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Check Your Drinking

A anonymous brief survey designed to provide normative feedback of individual's drinking with the intent of motivating reductions in drinking

BEHAVIORAL

Hello Sunday Morning

Brief online intervention that allows Individual's reflect on their drinking reductions progress and goals.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • John A Cunningham, PhD · Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-02-24
Primary Completion
2017-10-23
Completion
2017-10-23

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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