Game-Based Intervention for Alcohol Use Disorder
What You Need to Know Before You Apply
What is the purpose of this trial?
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:
* Does Singularities reduce the frequency of experiencing alcohol-related harms and alcohol use behaviors?
* Does Singularities improve alcohol protective behavioral strategies, adaptive coping skills, and healthy social media use?
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:
* Partake in either Singularities or Food4Thought, both of which will be completed over the course of one month
* Take 4 online surveys over the course of one year
* Complete an optional online interview after the surveys
Who Is on the Research Team?
Robert WS Coulter, PhD, MPH
Principal Investigator
University of Pittsburgh
Are You a Good Fit for This Trial?
Inclusion Criteria
Timeline for a Trial Participant
Screening
Participants are screened for eligibility to participate in the trial
Intervention
Participants partake in either Singularities or Food4Thought, both completed over the course of one month
Follow-up
Participants take 4 online surveys over the course of one year to monitor outcomes
Optional Interview
Participants complete an optional online interview after the surveys
What Are the Treatments Tested in This Trial?
Interventions
- Singularities
How Is the Trial Designed?
2
Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Active Control
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.
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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Who Is Running the Clinical Trial?
University of Pittsburgh
Lead Sponsor
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Collaborator
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