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National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) |
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| Information provided by: | National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) |
| ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00247182 |
Purpose
This project provides stepped care to college students mandated for alcohol-related offenses. Students are first provided with a minimal intervention, a 15-minute discussion of their alcohol use. Students who continue to drink in a risky manner are provided with a more intensive, hour-long brief motivational interview. By providing more intensive treatment to the students who exhibit risky drinking, we hope to maximize the efficiency of campus alcohol programs.
| Condition | Intervention | Phase |
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Drinking Behavior High Risk Alcohol Use |
Behavioral: Step 1: Minimal Intervention Behavioral: Step 2: Brief Motivational Intervention Behavioral: Alcohol Assessment |
Phase I |
| Study Type: | Interventional |
| Study Design: | Randomized, Open Label, Placebo Control, Factorial Assignment, Efficacy Study |
| Official Title: | Stepped Care for Mandated College Students |
| Estimated Enrollment: | 604 |
| Study Start Date: | October 2006 |
| Estimated Study Completion Date: | December 2009 |
| Estimated Primary Completion Date: | December 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
| Arms | Assigned Interventions |
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Step 1
Minimal Intervention
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Behavioral: Step 1: Minimal Intervention
All participants will receive Step 1, a 15-minute minimal intervention including a discussion of the referral incident and the provision of a booklet containing advice to reduce drinking. Participants will be assessed six weeks later. All students will complete 3, 6, and 9 month follow-up assessments
Behavioral: Step 2: Brief Motivational Intervention
Participants continuing to exhibit risky alcohol use will receive Step 2, randomization to: (a) a 60-90 minute brief motivational intervention (BMI) or (b) an assessment-only control. All students will complete 3, 6, and 9 month follow-up assessments.
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Step 2-A: Active Comparator
Brief motivational intervention (BMI)
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Behavioral: Step 2: Brief Motivational Intervention
Participants continuing to exhibit risky alcohol use will receive Step 2, randomization to: (a) a 60-90 minute brief motivational intervention (BMI) or (b) an assessment-only control. All students will complete 3, 6, and 9 month follow-up assessments.
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Step 2-B: Active Comparator
Assessment-only control
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Behavioral: Alcohol Assessment
Participants continuing to exhibit risky alcohol use will receive Step 2, randomization to: (a) a 60-90 minute brief motivational intervention (BMI) or (b) an assessment-only control. All students will complete 3, 6, and 9 month follow-up assessments.
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Colleges and universities have seen a large increase in the number of students referred to the administration for the violation of alcohol policies. However, research indicates that the majority of mandated students may not require extensive treatment. Stepped care assigns individuals to different levels of care according to their response to treatment. Encouraging research indicates that minimal interventions and BMIs may reduce heavy drinking in mandated college students. Thus, implementing stepped care using these interventions could maximize treatment efficiency and reduce the demands on campus alcohol programs.
Participants will be students mandated to attend an alcohol program at a northeastern private university. All participants will receive Step 1, a 15-minute minimal intervention including a discussion of the referral incident and the provision of a booklet containing advice to reduce drinking. Participants will be assessed six weeks later, and those continuing to exhibit risky alcohol use will receive Step 2, randomization to: (a) a 60-90 minute brief motivational intervention (BMI) or (b) an assessment-only control. All students will complete 3, 6, and 9 month follow-up assessments. The three groups will be compared on two outcome measures: frequency of binge drinking episodes and alcohol-related problems in the past 30 days. Predictors of treatment response (readiness to change, alcohol expectancies, age of first drink, sensation seeking, descriptive norms, and reaction to the referral) will also be evaluated for both steps of the intervention. Research findings will assist college alcohol programs in determining the most effective and efficient allocation of their limited resources in treating mandated students. The long-term objectives of this research are to inform preventive intervention research about the utility and cost-effectiveness of stepped-care approaches and to identify individual and situational factors that qualify these effects.
Eligibility| Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
| Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
| Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
Contacts and Locations| Contact: Donna L. Darmody, MS | 1-401-254-3413 | ddarmody@rwu.edu |
| United States, Rhode Island | |
| Roger Williams University | Recruiting |
| Bristol, Rhode Island, United States, 02809 | |
| Contact: Donna L. Darmody 401-254-3413 ddarmody@rwu.edu | |
| Contact: Brian E. Borsari, PhD 401-863-6659 Brian_Borsari@brown.edu | |
| Principal Investigator: Brian E. Borsari, PhD | |
| Principal Investigator: | Brian E. Borsari, PhD | Brown University |
More Information
| Responsible Party: | Brown University ( Brian Borsari, Ph.D. ) |
| Study ID Numbers: | NIAAABOR015518, NIH Grant R01 AA015518-01 |
| Study First Received: | October 28, 2005 |
| Last Updated: | September 12, 2008 |
| ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00247182 |
| Health Authority: | United States: Federal Government |
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Stepped Care Brief Motivational Intervention Minimal Intervention Treatment response College Students |
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