NCT06543342

Bystander Intervention for Hazardous Drinking

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 187 (actual)
• Sponsor: Brown University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The objective of this treatment development grant is to create an innovative and efficacious alcohol intervention for emerging adults using features from three theoretically sound and empirically supported approaches. A set of students will be engaged to serve as peer leaders to assist in reducing hazardous drinking behavior among their peers. This new intervention, a Bystander Brief Motivational Intervention (BBMI) spans Stages 1A and 1B of the stage model of behavioral therapies research and will utilize qualitative methods, an open trial, and a small controlled pilot trial within the targeted college community.

Detailed description

The objective of this treatment development grant is to create an innovative and efficacious alcohol intervention for emerging adults using features from three theoretically sound and empirically supported approaches. Established elements from Bystander Intervention (awareness of the problem, addressing pluralistic ignorance, skill building), Brief Motivational Intervention (client-centered foundation, corrective information about community norms, protective behavioral strategies) and Social Network Analysis (measuring network ties, identifying the influence of network members), will be integrated into a brief intervention that pays particular attention to the connectedness of residents in dormitory social networks. Social network analytic methods will be used to assess the primary peer network (the college residence) and a set of individuals exposed to others drinking risks will be identified to receive the intervention. This set of students will be engaged to serve as peer leaders to assist in reducing hazardous drinking behavior among their peers. This new intervention, a Bystander Brief Motivational Intervention (BBMI) spans Stages 1A and 1B of the stage model of behavioral therapies research and will utilize qualitative methods, an open trial, and a small controlled pilot trial within the targeted college community.

Conditions

• Hazardous Behavior
• Alcohol Consequences

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Bystander Brief Motivational Intervention	Group-based interactive intervention, conducted in two sessions, including multiple tasks and exercises to identify different levels of risk behavior, different types of strategies, and practicing responding to different scenarios. Personal goals for helping friends stay safe, and identifying whether intervention as a bystander was successful are included.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-01-10
• Primary completion: 2022-07-15
• Completion: 2022-07-15
• First posted: 2024-08-09
• Last updated: 2024-08-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States