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Behavioral Economic Treatment to Enhance Rural (BETTER) Living

NCT05235971 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 75

Last updated 2025-03-26

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Summary

The purpose of this trial is to get feedback to help develop programs delivered by phone and text messages to improve wellness and health behaviors. This study will enroll adult participants that have been seen in primary care settings and live in rurally designated areas.

Conditions

  • Alcohol Use, Unspecified

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Episodic Future thinking

During a visit with the study team, participants will identify personally-relevant reminders, or cues, that they will receive up to 3 messages a day via text-message over a two-week period. The messages will describe positive, non-alcohol related events at future time points to facilitate extension of temporal consideration toward future-focused perspectives. In addition, participants will have phone meetings (video or not) where health behaviors as well as survey information is noted and collected

BEHAVIORAL

Volitional choice

Volitional choice creates structured if-then plans to dismantle context-linked alcohol use The messages sent over a two-week period facilitate alternative, healthier choices by identifying and linking risky cues with alternative actions. Participants will receive up to 3 messages a day for 14 days that include assessment and intervention messages. In addition, participants will have phone meetings (video or not) where health behaviors as well as survey information is noted and collected.

BEHAVIORAL

Monitoring only

Participants will receive general psychoeducation about alcohol use, mental health, resources, and a description of the assessments to be completed over a two-week field testing period. In addition, participants will have phone meetings (video or not) where health behaviors as well as survey information is noted and collected.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Michigan

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lara Coughlin, PhD · University of Michigan

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-05-17
Primary Completion
2023-05-08
Completion
2023-06-08

Countries

  • United States

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Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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