Collaborative Opportunities for Reducing Alcohol and Sexual Violence Together

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to test if a modified peer-based motivational intervention (the Military PAIRS; MPAIRS) is reasonable and practical for military contexts. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Does it works to reduce SV?
* Does it works to reduce risky drinking? To test this, participants will answer questions about their SV history and risky drinking. Then they will be given MPAIRS. After 1 month, they will be asked about their SV history and risky drinking again.

Conditions

• Sexual Violence
• Behavior Change
• Military Training

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Peer-Based Motivational Interview

The intervention will use Motivational Interviewing's (MI) collaborative conversation style for strengthening commitment to change, to motivate and prepare service members to work together to reduce Sexual Violence (SV) risk. This intervention will target ways that the peer dyad may support, encourage, and share responsibility with one another in protecting against SV. The Peer-based MI (PMI) will then use the responsibility and relationship of peers as a framework to foster collaborative efforts to increase readiness and decrease barriers to helping behavior. As part of this, the PMI will focus on the identification and implementation of skills peers can use to help one another prevent SV. PMI will include a focused discussion of the ways drinking may impede helping efforts. Moreover, the PMI will encourage service members to identify personal, specific strategies for reducing the effects of alcohol on helping.

BEHAVIORAL

Health and Well-Being for All

This single-session intervention, is designed to be delivered to peers in a group or dyad-based format, examines social determinants of health and wellness across a variety of domains. The intervention outlines a 6-step process for improving overall wellness. The CDC offers a number of handouts and other materials (e.g., peer dialogue exercises, data cards) that accompany the didactic material. In this study, the HWBA intervention will be delivered by a project interventionist. The session will be designed to be time equivalent (90 minutes) to the MPAIRs intervention. (Pember, 2018)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• State University of New York at Buffalo

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Jennifer P Read, Ph.D. · University at Buffalo

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

24 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2025-10-10

Primary Completion

2027-03-31

Completion

2027-04-30

Countries

• United States

Study Locations