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Parent Feedback Intervention Targeting Student Transitions and Alcohol Related Trajectories (+) Efficacy Study

NCT04549454 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 266

Last updated 2023-06-01

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Summary

FITSTART (Feedback Intervention Targeting Student Transitions and Risk Trajectories) is a parent-based social norms intervention that has been shown to reduce risky drinking in incoming first year students.This program uses normative feedback to correct parents overestimation of other parents negative alcohol-related parenting practices (e.g., number of drinks parents would permit their college student to consume). Theory and research suggests that correcting those common misperceptions can motivate parents to adjust their own behaviors (e.g., reducing the number of drinks they would permit), which, in turn, can impact college student drinking. Despite FITSTARTs success, the design of the program limits participation to only students who have parents who can attend on-campus orientation sessions during the summer months before the start of the Fall semester. To address this limitation and extend the previous work, the proposed randomized clinical trial (RCT) will evaluate the efficacy of an online adaptation of the FITSTART(+) PBI program. To examine the efficacy of the newly developed FITSTART+ PBI web app, the proposed RCT will use a longitudinal design to examine if students self-report drinking and related negative consequences during their first semester in college significantly differed between FITSTART+ PBI (intervention app) and a control version of the app. Self-reported drinking and consequences are expected to be lower amongst students with parents randomized to FITSTART+ PBI relative to those with parents randomized to the control app.

Conditions

  • Alcohol Drinking
  • Alcohol Problem Drinking
  • Parenting

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

FITSTART+ PBI

Personalized normative feedback on other parents behaviors + alcohol-specific parenting advice + general parenting advice

BEHAVIORAL

General Parenting Advice

General parenting advice

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

    collaborator NIH

  • Loyola Marymount University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Joseph W LaBrie, PhD · Loyola Marymount University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-07-22
Primary Completion
2022-03-22
Completion
2022-03-22

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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