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The purpose of this study is to determine whether the investigators internet-based intervention is effective to help hazardous drinkers reducing their alcohol consumption.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Web-based alcohol programme | Experimental | Participants could log on to their account and access the programme whenever they wanted to. They received automated email reminders inviting them to use follow-up tools, especially the diary in order to register their alcohol intake on the previous week:
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| Minimum information | Placebo Comparator | Participants could log on to their account and access the programme whenever they wanted to. At 6 week follow-up they received an automated email reminder inviting them to use the diary in order to register their alcohol intake on the previous week. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| interactive online programme to reduce alcohol consumption | Behavioral | The programme includes several steps:
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Change in Weekly Alcohol Intake | The unit of "standard drink" is a drink containing 10g of pure alcohol. Participants had to report their weekly alcohol intake in a diary, in which they could choose among 21 glasses of various capacities and containing various alcoholic drinks. Each of those glasses was then converted into standard drinks. | baseline and 6 weeks |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Relative Change in Weekly Alcohol Intake | (6 weeks minus baseline)/baseline | baseline and 6 weeks |
| Category of Change in Weekly Alcohol Intake | Category of change in weekly alcohol intake (WAI) is a 3-level categorical variable whose values are:
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Inclusion Criteria:
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Juliette Guillemont, MS | Institut national de prevention et d'education pour la sante | Principal Investigator |
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Recruitment period: Oct 27 to Dec 15, 2009 Recruitment was conducted via Internet.
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| ID | Title | Description |
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| FG000 | Web-based Alcohol Programme | |
| FG001 | Minimum Information |
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| BG000 | Web-based Alcohol Programme | |
| BG001 | Minimum Information | |
| BG002 | Total |
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| Age, Categorical | Count of Participants |
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| Primary | Change in Weekly Alcohol Intake | The unit of "standard drink" is a drink containing 10g of pure alcohol. Participants had to report their weekly alcohol intake in a diary, in which they could choose among 21 glasses of various capacities and containing various alcoholic drinks. Each of those glasses was then converted into standard drinks. | Only participants who completed the study were included in this analysis | Posted | Mean | Standard Deviation | standard drinks | baseline and 6 weeks |
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Neither serious nor other adverse events were assessed.
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| ID | Title | Description | Deaths (Affected) | Deaths (At Risk) | Serious Events (Affected) | Serious Events (At Risk) | Other Events (Affected) | Other Events (At Risk) |
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| EG000 | Web-based Alcohol Programme |
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High rate of loss to follow-up lead to small number of subjects analyzed. Some participants were lost to follow-up even before completing baseline measures.
| Title | Organization | Phone | Extension | |
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| Juliette Guillemont | Inpes | +331 49 33 22 55 | juliette.guillemont@inpes.sante.fr |
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| D000431 | Ethanol |
| D004467 | Economics |
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| D000438 | Alcohols |
| D009930 | Organic Chemicals |
| D004472 | Health Care Economics and Organizations |
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| Minimum information | Behavioral | This intervention includes:
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| Change in the Number of Excessive Drinkers | The number of excessive drinkers is the number of participants whose weekly alcohol intake exceeds guidelines, i.e. 21 or 14 standard drinks (male/female) per week | baseline and 6 weeks |
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| Sex: Female, Male | Count of Participants | Participants |
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| AUDIT score | The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) consists of 10 questions about recent alcohol use, alcohol dependence symptoms, and alcohol-related problems. Each question has a set of responses to choose from, and each response has a score ranging from 0 to 4. All the response scores are then added, which gives the AUDIT score. AUDIT score ranges from 0 to 40 and is interpreted as follows:
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| Weekly alcohol intake at baseline | Number of participants for this measure: 225 in intervention group, 263 in control group. The unit of "standard drink" is a drink containing 10g of pure alcohol. Participants had to report their weekly alcohol intake in a diary, in which they could choose among 21 glasses of various capacities and containing various alcoholic drinks. Each of those glasses was then converted into standard drinks. | Mean | Standard Deviation | standard drinks |
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| Secondary | Relative Change in Weekly Alcohol Intake | (6 weeks minus baseline)/baseline | Participants with weekly alcohol consumption baseline at 0 were excluded from this analysis | Posted | Mean | Standard Deviation | percent of baseline consumption | baseline and 6 weeks |
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| Secondary | Category of Change in Weekly Alcohol Intake | Category of change in weekly alcohol intake (WAI) is a 3-level categorical variable whose values are:
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| Secondary | Change in the Number of Excessive Drinkers | The number of excessive drinkers is the number of participants whose weekly alcohol intake exceeds guidelines, i.e. 21 or 14 standard drinks (male/female) per week | Posted | Number | participants | baseline and 6 weeks |
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| EG001 | Minimum Information | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| significant increase in weekly alcohol intake |
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