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AAT-APP+: A Novel Brain-training App to Reduce Drinking

NCT04923256 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 188

Last updated 2025-08-01

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Summary

This study will explore the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of a smart phone delivered form of cognitive training intervention (Approach Bias Modification (ABM)) in a non-clinical community sample of middle to older adults (\>55 years) reporting hazardous alcohol use in a pilot randomised controlled trial (RCT). This app is called AAT-APP+

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

AAT-APP: A novel smart-phone approach-avoidance bias modification intervention

Participants allocated to the intervention group will be required to upload photos of drinks they wish to avoid, as well as activities they wish to engage in more, and be trained to avoid and approach by repeatedly 'swiping' images away from and towards themselves, respectively.

BEHAVIORAL

Sham training control

Complete an AAT on a weekly basis for four weeks

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Monash University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Eastern Health

    collaborator OTHER

  • Turning Point

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Victoria Manning, PhD · Turning Point

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-06-30
Primary Completion
2023-04-01
Completion
2024-03-01

Countries

  • Australia

Study Locations

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