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| 5R01AA030017-03 | U.S. NIH Grant/Contract | View source |
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| National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) | NIH |
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This is a randomized controlled trial to learn if the Singularities, a game-based intervention, works to reduce alcohol-related harms among youth. It will also learn if Singularities reduces alcohol use behaviors and improves alcohol protective behavioral strategies, adaptive coping skills, and healthy social media use. The main questions it aims to answer are:
Researchers will compare Singularities to an attention control program, Food4Thought, a game-based intervention about nutrition, physical activity, and teen well-being, to see if Singularities works to reduce alcohol-related harms.
Participants will:
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Singularities | Experimental | Singularities is a theory-based, community-informed, web-accessible intervention that includes a game, discussion board, and resources that incorporate 3 components for encouraging use of adaptive coping skills, alcohol protective behavioral strategies, and healthy internet and social media use. |
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| Food4Thought | Active Comparator | Food4Thought is an attention control condition in which participants receive similar amounts of research team contact and program contact as the Singularities intervention. Participants will play the game Pick Your Plate! A Global Guide to Nutrition, developed by the Smithsonian Science Education Center, and learn about resources and respond to questions about nutrition, physical activity, and teen well-being (without the mention of anything pertaining to alcohol use). |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Food4Thought | Behavioral | Food4Thought is an attention control condition in which participants receive similar amounts of research team contact and program contact as the intervention. Participants will play the game Pick Your Plate! A Global Guide to Nutrition, developed by the Smithsonian Science Education Center. Participants are instructed to build healthy meals using cuisine from around the world while ensuring they stick to a budget and meet all their nutritional needs. Food4Thought will be delivered via Qualtrics. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Alcohol-related harms | Participants report how many times they experienced 19 different alcohol-related harms, based on the measure from the the School Health and Alcohol Harm Reduction Project (SHAHRP). Example harms include hangover after drinking, inability to remember what happened after drinking, having sex that they later regretted, trouble with parent(s) because of drinking, physical fight because they were affected by alcohol, and drove in a vehicle after drinking. Response options for each harm range from "never" (0) to "12 times or more" (12). Scores range from 0 to 228, with higher scores indicating more alcohol-related harms. | Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Drinking quantity | Number of drinks consumed on a typical day of drinking assessed via Quantity-Frequency items | Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months |
| Drinking frequency | Number of days on which one or more drinks were consumed assessed via Quantity-Frequency items. |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Robert WS Coulter, PhD, MPH | Contact | 412-624-0647 | robert.ws.coulter@pitt.edu | |
| James E Egan, PhD, MPH | Contact | 412-624-2255 | jee48@pitt.edu |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Robert WS Coulter, PhD, MPH | University of Pittsburgh | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | 15213 | United States |
All of the individual participant data collected during the trial, after deidentification.
IPD will be available 12 months after the end of the study. There is no end date.
Anyone who wishes to access the data and supporting information from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Data Archive (NIAAA DA).
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| ID | Term |
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| D019973 | Alcohol-Related Disorders |
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| D019966 | Substance-Related Disorders |
| D064419 | Chemically-Induced Disorders |
| D001523 | Mental Disorders |
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Two-armed parallel randomized controlled trial
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| Singularities | Behavioral | Singularities is a theory-based, community-informed, web-accessible intervention that includes a game, discussion board, and resources that incorporate 3 components for encouraging use of adaptive coping skills, alcohol protective behavioral strategies, and healthy internet and social media use. |
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| Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months |
| Binge drinking frequency | Number of times when 4 or 5+ drinks (asking both regardless of assigned/biological sex at birth) were consumed in a 2-hour period assessed via National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) items. | Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months |
| Alcohol use initiation | Participants report whether or not they drank alcohol, which is assessed via the Youth Risk Behavior Survey item about lifetime alcohol use. | Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months |
| Alcohol protective behavioral strategies | Which alcohol protective behavioral strategies are engaged in while drinking or partying, measured with the Protective Behavioral Strategies Scale (PBSS). Scores range from 20 to 120, with higher scores indicating more skills used. | Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months |
| Bystander alcohol risk reduction skills | Total number of times specific strategies were used to help others before, during, or after drinking, using the Strategies subscale of the Bystanders to Alcohol Risk Scale (BARS). Scores range from 0 to 27, with higher scores indicating more skills used. | Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months |
| Emotional distress tolerance skills | Ability to endure negative emotional states, measured with the Distress Tolerance Scale (DTS). Scores range from 15 to 75, with higher scores indicating better distress tolerance. | Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months |
| Emotion regulation and decentering practices | How often mindfulness practices are used, measured with the Applied Mindfulness Process Scale (AMPS). Scores range from 0 to 60, with higher scores indicating a better outcome. | Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months |
| Healthy social media use | Using MetroWest Adolescent Health Survey items, this self-report measure assesses adolescents' perceptions of the social, emotional, and behavioral impacts of social media use. Participants indicate their level of agreement with 11 statements on a 5-point Likert scale, with higher average scores reflecting healthier social media use. | Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months |