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Text-based Alcohol Prevention for First Year College Students

NCT03864237 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 121

Last updated 2025-04-16

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Summary

This project aims to combat excessive perceived norms that contribute to high volume drinking by young adults, which adversely affects health and academic achievement. Campus-specific survey data will be used to craft accurate, pro-moderation campus norms, and deliver them to first-year students via daily text messages during the first semester of college. It is predicted that those receiving regular exposure to pro-moderation drinking norms will reduce their alcohol consumption and consequences, relative to students who receive non-alcohol-related control texts. This preliminary evaluation uses a novel method of delivering drinking norms and will lay the groundwork for future efforts to scale up this novel alcohol misuse prevention approach.

Conditions

  • College Drinking

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Alcohol texts

A text message each day for 10 weeks, containing factual information about campus drinking norms.

BEHAVIORAL

Attention control

A text message each day for 10 weeks, containing "this day in history" facts.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Brown University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
20 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-09-05
Primary Completion
2019-04-01
Completion
2019-04-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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