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A Social Media Personalized Normative Feedback Intervention for Heavy Drinking College Students

NCT05608109 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 401

Last updated 2025-02-03

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Summary

This study seeks to evaluate the unique and synergistic efficacy of social media-specific personalized normative feedback targeting the reduction of alcohol use among heavy-drinking college students who post alcohol-related content on social media.

Hypothesis: Alcohol personalized normative feedback, social media-specific personalized normative feedback, and the Alcohol personalized normative feedback+ social media-specific personalized normative feedback conditions will be more effective in reducing drinking than the attention control condition.

Conditions

  • Alcohol Consumption

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Alcohol personalized normative feedback (APNF)

Participants will receive individualized feedback based upon their survey responses. Feedback regarding participant's drinking compared to other same-university students will include: (a) drinking days per week, (b) average drinks per occasion, (c) drinks per week, and (d) drinking percentile rank.

BEHAVIORAL

Social media personalized normative feedback (SMPNF)

Participants will receive individualized feedback based upon their survey responses. Feedback regarding participant's alcohol related content posts on social media and drinking compared to other same-university students will include: (a) alcohol related posting days per week, (b) average alcohol related posting per week, (c) posting percentile rank, (d) drinking days per week, (e) average drinks per week, and (f) drinking percentile rank.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

    collaborator NIH

  • Duquesne University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mai-Ly N Steers, PhD · Duquesne University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-01-09
Primary Completion
2024-07-30
Completion
2024-12-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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