NCT07036198

CPNF Intervention Development and Testing

A User-Customizable Personalized Normative Feedback Intervention for Alcohol Harm Reduction in Young Adults: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 250 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Washington · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 24 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The project will develop brief interventions that allow participants to customize which groups they receive feedback for in relation to things such as drinking norms for younger or older students, student athletes, etc. The goal is to provide content that is meaningful and engaging to all users.

Detailed description

The project will develop and pilot test an innovative paradigm for leveraging social norms within brief interventions that entails user customization of which (and how many) normative referent groups they receive feedback for so that the content is meaningful and engaging to all users.

Conditions

• Alcohol Use

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Customizable personalized normative feedback (CPNF)	The CPNF intervention allows individuals to explore normative feedback for a wider variety of referent groups so that PNF is a truly personalized and engaging experience.
BEHAVIORAL	Personalized normative feedback (PNF)	Correcting misperceptions about peers' alcohol use behaviors and contrasting one's own use to the actual norms of their peers.
BEHAVIORAL	Attention-Matched Control (AMC)	Participants in the AMC condition will complete all measures at the same time as participants in the CPNF condition but will not receive any information on drinking norms. Instead, participants in the AMC will receive normative feedback on sleep health, video game use, and gambling behaviors, and will similarly be able to choose the normative referent groups they wish to view feedback on for these behaviors. The AMC will thus serve as a non-treatment comparison that controls for assessment reactivity and effects of history and maturation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-04-01
• Primary completion: 2026-09-01
• Completion: 2027-09-01
• First posted: 2025-06-25
• Last updated: 2026-03-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States