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This study is a trial of a brief alcohol intervention, a brief expressive writing intervention that incorporates religious identity.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Religious Prompt | Experimental | Participants will be provided a writing prompt that describes their self-reported drinking, then asks them to write for 5 to 10 minutes about how that drinking is associated with their self-reported religious identity. After completing that writing assignment, participants will be shown their response, and asked to spend 5 to 10 minutes describing how their drinking behaviors in the next month might change. |
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| Age Prompt | Sham Comparator | Participants will be provided a writing prompt that describes their self-reported drinking, then asks them to write for 5 to 10 minutes about how that drinking is associated with their self-reported age. After completing that writing assignment, participants will be shown their response, and asked to spend 5 to 10 minutes describing how their drinking behaviors in the next month might change. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Expressive Writing | Behavioral | The participants are asked to write for a period of time about specific concepts so that they think carefully and cognitively process the information they are generating. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Change in the Timeline Follow-Back one month following the intervention | Participants report number of drinks consumed each day over the last month. | It will be assessed before the intervention and one month following the intervention. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Chang in the Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire one month following the intervention | Participants respond to a list of common consequences of alcohol use indicating whether or not they have experienced them. The scale name is the "Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire" (Read, Kahler, Strong, & Colder, 2006). The construct of interest measured by this scale is the alcohol problems experienced by the participant. The total score is used, and the range for the total score is 0 to 48. |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Mary M Tomkins, M.S. | University of Houston | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| University of Houston Psychology Department | Houston | Texas | 77004 | United States |
We do not have any plans at this time to share individual participant data with other researchers.
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Participants will be randomized to either an intervention condition, where they will write about how their drinking relates to their religious identity, or to a control condition, where they will write about how their drinking relates to their age.
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Participants will not be made aware of the purpose of the study. Research assistants, who interact with the participants, will not be made aware of which writing prompt any given participant will receive.
| It will be assessed before the intervention and one month following the intervention. |