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Personalized Integrated Prevention Program for Reducing Heavy Drinking and Sexual Assault on College Campuses (+Change Trial)

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Waitlist Available
Led By Amanda Gilmore, PhD
Research Sponsored by Georgia State University
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
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Must have
Age between 18-25 years old
Be between 18 and 65 years old
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up 3-, 6-, 9-, and 12-months
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+Change Trial Summary

This trialwill test the effectiveness of a prevention program to reduce heavy drinking and sexual assault on college campuses.

Who is the study for?
This trial is for college students aged 18-25 who engage in heavy episodic drinking at least once a month and are currently enrolled at the university conducting the study. They must have a valid university email address. There are no other specific exclusion criteria.Check my eligibility
What is being tested?
+Change, an alcohol and sexual assault prevention program, is being tested against a control condition to see if it reduces alcohol use and sexual assault while increasing bystander intervention. The trial also examines whether adding a Booster session after 6 months enhances long-term benefits.See study design
What are the potential side effects?
As this is not a drug or medical treatment trial but rather an educational and behavioral intervention, traditional physical side effects are not applicable. However, participants may experience emotional or psychological responses to discussions of sensitive topics like alcohol use and sexual assault.

+Change Trial Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

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I am between 18 and 25 years old.

+Change Trial Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~3-, 6-, 9-, and 12-months
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 3-, 6-, 9-, and 12-months for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary outcome measures
Changes in Alcohol use
Changes in Bystander Intervention
Changes in Sexual Assault Perpetration
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+Change Trial Design

3Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Placebo Group
Group I: Positive Change (+Change) Plus BoosterExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
This is an integrated social norms-based personalized feedback intervention for college students targeting alcohol misuse and sexual assault. It targets alcohol, sexual assault victimization risk, sexual assault perpetration, and bystander intervention. It is tailored by gender and sexual orientation. It is provided at baseline and a booster at 6 months.
Group II: Positive Change (+Change)Experimental Treatment1 Intervention
This is an integrated social norms-based personalized feedback intervention for college students targeting alcohol misuse and sexual assault. It targets alcohol, sexual assault victimization risk, sexual assault perpetration, and bystander intervention. It is tailored by gender and sexual orientation.
Group III: ControlPlacebo Group1 Intervention
A healthy lifestyles attention control will be used as the control condition. We will match the control and intervention conditions on content (text, pictures, number of pages); type (interactive vs. psychoeducation); and average completion time.
Treatment
First Studied
Drug Approval Stage
How many patients have taken this drug
Positive Change (+Change)
2018
N/A
~170

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Arizona State UniversityOTHER
283 Previous Clinical Trials
106,214 Total Patients Enrolled
1 Trials studying Sexual Assault
165 Patients Enrolled for Sexual Assault
Georgia State UniversityLead Sponsor
57 Previous Clinical Trials
22,129 Total Patients Enrolled
1 Trials studying Sexual Assault
165 Patients Enrolled for Sexual Assault
Amanda Gilmore, PhDPrincipal InvestigatorGeorgia State University
1 Previous Clinical Trials
27 Total Patients Enrolled

Media Library

Positive Change (+Change) Clinical Trial Eligibility Overview. Trial Name: NCT05281874 — N/A
Sexual Assault Research Study Groups: Control, Positive Change (+Change) Plus Booster, Positive Change (+Change)
Sexual Assault Clinical Trial 2023: Positive Change (+Change) Highlights & Side Effects. Trial Name: NCT05281874 — N/A
Positive Change (+Change) 2023 Treatment Timeline for Medical Study. Trial Name: NCT05281874 — N/A

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

What are the eligibility requirements for enrolment in this research trial?

"This trial is interested in enrolling 3300 people who have experienced sexual assault and are between 18-25 years of age. For eligibility, they must be a current student at the university being studied, provide an active email address registered to that institution, and attest to having partaken in heavy episodic drinking within the past month on the screening questionnaire."

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Is participation in this medical study limited to persons under the age of seventy-five?

"The parameters of this clinical trial dictate that the lowest permissible age is 18 and the eldest eligible participant must be no older than 25."

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Is enrollment currently open for this research study?

"The clinicaltrials.gov registry reveals that this trial has stopped recruiting participants since October 19th 2022; however, it also states that there are 250 other trials currently searching for patients."

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~1919 spots leftby May 2026