NCT04253158

Implementation of a Web-based Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Intervention for Collegiate Student-athletes

Drug and Alcohol Prevention for College Athletes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 3,859 (actual)
• Sponsor: Prevention Strategies, LLC · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The broad aim of the proposed study is to use the innovative Multiphase Optimization Strategy to develop a highly effective Internet-delivered intervention, myPlaybook, for the prevention of substance use among college student-athletes. myPlaybook will undergo two rounds of randomized experimentation and targeted revision. At the conclusion of the second round, the optimized version of myPlaybook will be evaluated in large-scale Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT).

Detailed description

College student-athletes are at increased risk of heavy alcohol use, smokeless tobacco use, and the use of performance enhancing substances as compared to non-athlete college students. Despite recent research underscoring the need for athlete-tailored interventions, there are no evidence-based options for the prevention of substance use among college student-athletes that take into account their unique patterns and motivations for use. This void leaves colleges with few easy-to-use, effective, and economical options for meeting the needs of their student-athletes and the minimum drug education requirements set by their governing organizations. The broad aim of the proposed study is to use the innovative Multiphase Optimization Strategy to develop a highly effective Internet-delivered program (myPlaybook) for the prevention of substance use among college student-athletes. The MOST approach is a systematic method for making decisions about program development and adaptation that are based on the performance of individual program components. The five core lessons of myPlaybook will undergo two rounds of randomized experimentation and targeted revision. At the conclusion of the second round, the newly optimized version of myPlaybook will be assembled and evaluated in large-scale Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT). This "beta" version of myPlaybook will be compared to an Internet-based college alcohol intervention with proven effectiveness with general college students. This approach will allow us to 1) develop an intervention that is optimized for considerable impact on substance use outcomes and 2) demonstrate the need for interventions specifically adapted for college student-athletes. The proposed research will be among the first demonstrations of the MOST approach for building and evaluating behavioral interventions with greatly enhanced public health impact. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project has the potential to contribute to the health and safety of the more than 460,000 college student-athletes in the US. A contribution to the science of prevention will be made by demonstrating an innovative approach for the development and revision of behavioral interventions that focuses on achieving both statistical significance and optimizing public health impact.

Conditions

• Alcohol Drinking
• Social Norms
• Expectations
• Harm Reduction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Educational standard	Behavioral intervention aimed at increasing knowledge about alcohol and other drugs.
BEHAVIORAL	Educational standard and Harm prevention	Behavioral intervention aimed at increasing knowledge about alcohol and other drugs increasing intentions to use harm prevention strategies.
BEHAVIORAL	Educational standard and Expectancies	Behavioral intervention aimed at increasing knowledge about alcohol and other drugs and shifting alcohol-related expectancies.
BEHAVIORAL	Expectancies and Harm prevention	Behavioral intervention aimed at correcting erroneous norms about alcohol use and shifting alcohol-related expectancies.
BEHAVIORAL	Educational standard and Normative perceptions	Behavioral intervention aimed at increasing knowledge about alcohol and other drugs and correcting erroneous norms about alcohol use.
BEHAVIORAL	Normative perceptions and Harm prevention	Behavioral intervention aimed at correcting erroneous norms about alcohol use and increasing intentions to harm prevention strategies.
BEHAVIORAL	Educational standard, Normative Perceptions, and Expectancies	Behavioral intervention aimed at increasing knowledge about alcohol and other drugs, correcting erroneous norms about alcohol use, and shifting alcohol-related expectancies.
BEHAVIORAL	Normative perceptions, Expectancies, and Harm Prevention	Behavioral intervention aimed at correcting erroneous norms about alcohol use, shifting alcohol-related expectancies, and increasing intentions to use harm prevention strategies.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-09-01
• Primary completion: 2016-05-31
• Completion: 2016-05-31
• First posted: 2020-02-05
• Last updated: 2020-02-05