NCT06019442

An Electronic Brief Alcohol Intervention for Women Attending a Breast Screening Service (Health4Her)

An Electronic Brief Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Consumption Intentions, Improve Alcohol Literacy, and Reduce Harmful Use Among Women Attending a Breast Screening Service: a Randomised Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 143 (actual)
• Sponsor: Turning Point · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Alcohol is a major modifiable risk factor for female breast cancer; yet, awareness of this risk remains surprisingly low and is not systematically addressed in healthcare settings. This study aim to test the effectiveness of a co-designed, automated brief alcohol intervention (Health4Her-Automated) in reducing women's drinking intentions, improving alcohol literacy, and reducing consumption.

Detailed description

Alcohol is a major modifiable risk factor for female breast cancer, even in very low amounts. In Australia, alcohol consumption accounts for 6.6 per cent of cases in post-menopausal women, and 18 per cent of breast cancer deaths. Yet, awareness of this risk remains low and is not systematically addressed in healthcare settings. Embedding a brief alcohol intervention within lifestyle information offered to all women attending breast screening provides the opportunity to address harmful drinking in a discrete, non-judgmental way, to prevent alcohol-attributable breast cancer among this at-risk population. Brief alcohol interventions are short, single-session programs typically offered in general practice settings to gather information on a person's alcohol consumption and, in a non confrontational way, provide strategies and motivate change to reduce consumption and related risk of harm. An automated brief alcohol intervention, self-completed on a device such as an iPad, is a low-cost, labour- and time-efficient approach that overcomes many of the issues of providing intervention within busy healthcare environments. Building on the previous pilot trial of a prototype brief e-health intervention (which included alcohol-related questions asked by a researcher, and an animation viewed on an iPad that was activated by the researcher), the aim of the current study is to test the effectiveness of a co-designed, automated brief alcohol intervention (Health4Her-Automated) in reducing women's drinking intentions, improving alcohol literacy, and reducing consumption.

Conditions

• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Alcohol Drinking

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Brief alcohol intervention (Health4Her-Automated)	Embedded within the lifestyle health promotion provided in both conditions, participants randomised to the experimental condition will receive a brief alcohol intervention. The brief alcohol intervention will comprise information and behaviour-change content regarding alcohol consumption, including: messaging around alcohol risks/harms (with a focus on alcohol use and breast cancer risk), positive-framed messaging on the health benefits of reducing alcohol intake, and alcohol harm-reduction / behaviour change strategies (e.g. drink counting, goal setting, behaviour substitution, problem solving). Post-session information will be provided via email (i.e. electronic brochure summarising brief alcohol intervention content).
BEHAVIORAL	Lifestyle health promotion	Lifestyle health promotion, focused on physical activity and maintaining a healthy weight for reducing breast cancer risk, will be provided. Post-session information will be provided via email (i.e. electronic brochure summarising nutrition for maintaining a healthy weight).

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-09-01
• Primary completion: 2023-10-06
• Completion: 2023-12-01
• First posted: 2023-08-31
• Last updated: 2024-02-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Australia