Multi-Component Breath Alcohol Intervention Phase 3

NARecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

90

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

May 1, 2025

Primary Completion Date

May 1, 2026

Study Completion Date

December 31, 2026

Conditions
Alcohol UseAlcohol DrinkingDrinking Behavior
Interventions
DEVICE

Alcohol-related mobile health technologies

Participants will be asked to use the mobile technologies as they choose while drinking for a four-week period.

BEHAVIORAL

Motivational interview and psychoeducation on blood/breath alcohol concentration

Brief 25/30-minute motivational interview and psychoeducation on blood/breath alcohol concentration that includes both personalized and standardized information.

BEHAVIORAL

Lower tech facilitation

Study staff will review instructions for technology use closely with participants and guide them in use of existing phone technologies as reminders for use of the three moderate drinking technologies during drinking situations.

BEHAVIORAL

Higher tech facilitation

Participants will use an app developed during the study, SmartSip, that will provide protective behavioral strategies and reminders for use of the three moderate drinking technologies during drinking situations.

BEHAVIORAL

Alcohol Education

Brief 25/30-minute psychoeducation on generalized alcohol use providing information about alcohol and its effects, adapted from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Rethinking Drinking resources

DEVICE

Alcohol Education Technology

Participants will be able to prompt text messages which will provide them one-off trivia facts using information provided during the attention control psychoeducation session

Trial Locations (1)

02115-5005

RECRUITING

Northeastern University, Boston

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

NIH

lead

Northeastern University

OTHER