NCT02681900

Exploring Whether Self-affirmation Promotes Reduced Alcohol Consumption in Response to Narrative Health Information

Exploring Whether Experimentally Manipulated Self-affirmation Promotes Reduced Alcohol Consumption in Response to Narrative Health Information

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 142 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Sussex · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study tests the effects of a self-affirmation manipulation on (i) acceptance of a health message detailing the risks of alcohol consumption, (ii) engagement with the health message and (iii) alcohol consumption at 7-day follow-up. Half of the participants complete a self-affirmation manipulation, where they reflect on their most important values, whereas the other half complete a control equivalent, where they reflect on their least important values. Immediately post-intervention, all participants then receive information about the risks of alcohol consumption and complete measures of message acceptance and engagement with the materials. Seven days after intervention, participants self-report their alcohol consumption in the previous 7 days.

Conditions

• Alcohol Drinking

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Self-affirmation manipulation task	Participants in the self-affirmation condition indicate their most important value, give three examples of why this value is important to them and one example of something they had done to demonstrate its importance.
BEHAVIORAL	Control task	People in the control condition indicate their least important value, three examples of why that value could be important to someone else, and describe something that person could do to show its importance.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-10-01
• Primary completion: 2014-12-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2016-02-15
• Last updated: 2016-02-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom