NCT05235971

Behavioral Economic Treatment to Enhance Rural (BETTER) Living

Behavioral Economic Treatment to Enhance Rural Living

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 75 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Michigan · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this trial is to get feedback to help develop programs delivered by phone and text messages to improve wellness and health behaviors. This study will enroll adult participants that have been seen in primary care settings and live in rurally designated areas.

Detailed description

This study will evaluate acceptability and feasibility of two remotely-delivered behavioral economic intervention components, alone and in combination, using remote text message delivery. The two intervention components are an episodic future thinking component and a volitional choice component. The goal of this work is to develop and determine acceptability and feasibility of a well-specified, accessible, and theory-driven mobile health intervention to reduce harmful alcohol use in people living in rural regions.

Conditions

• Alcohol Use, Unspecified

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Episodic Future thinking	During a visit with the study team, participants will identify personally-relevant reminders, or cues, that they will receive up to 3 messages a day via text-message over a two-week period. The messages will describe positive, non-alcohol related events at future time points to facilitate extension of temporal consideration toward future-focused perspectives. In addition, participants will have phone meetings (video or not) where health behaviors as well as survey information is noted and collected
BEHAVIORAL	Volitional choice	Volitional choice creates structured if-then plans to dismantle context-linked alcohol use The messages sent over a two-week period facilitate alternative, healthier choices by identifying and linking risky cues with alternative actions. Participants will receive up to 3 messages a day for 14 days that include assessment and intervention messages. In addition, participants will have phone meetings (video or not) where health behaviors as well as survey information is noted and collected.
BEHAVIORAL	Monitoring only	Participants will receive general psychoeducation about alcohol use, mental health, resources, and a description of the assessments to be completed over a two-week field testing period. In addition, participants will have phone meetings (video or not) where health behaviors as well as survey information is noted and collected.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-05-17
• Primary completion: 2023-05-08
• Completion: 2023-06-08
• First posted: 2022-02-11
• Last updated: 2025-03-26
• Results posted: 2024-07-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States