NCT04833972

Eliciting Perceived Norms About Substance Use

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,553 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Survey experiment to elicit perceived norms about substance use

Detailed description

Health behaviors and health risk behaviors are known to be associated with the extent to which one perceives these behaviors as normative. The canonical example of this phenomenon is taken from the U.S. literature, which has robustly shown that undergraduate students on college campuses tend to drink more heavily and frequently if they believe their classmates drink heavily and frequently, irrespective of their classmates' actual levels and frequency of use. However, there remains little systematic understanding about the best ways to elicit these perceived norms through survey-based research studies. This randomized survey experiment compares different ways of eliciting perceived norms.

Conditions

• Tobacco Use
• Alcohol Drinking

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Survey questionnaire	Each version of the questionnaire has the same questions about perceived norms about substance use in the community but differs in how the response options are offered.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-02-10
• Primary completion: 2021-12-31
• Completion: 2021-12-31
• First posted: 2021-04-06
• Last updated: 2021-04-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Uganda