90
Participants
Start Date
May 1, 2025
Primary Completion Date
May 1, 2026
Study Completion Date
December 31, 2026
Alcohol-related mobile health technologies
Participants will be asked to use the mobile technologies as they choose while drinking for a four-week period.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
RECRUITING
Northeastern University, Boston
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
NIH
Northeastern University
OTHER