Brief Personalized Feedback Intervention for Hazardous Drinking in an HIV Clinic

Status unconfirmed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Alcohol Consumption

In brief

The objective of the proposed research is test the feasibility of a brief computer-based personalized feedback intervention to reduce heavy alcohol use among HIV+ individuals. There is a critical need to develop accessible, empirically-supported, low-threshold interventions for HIV+ hazardous alcohol users. The proposed research will develop and evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and potential efficacy of a novel evidence- and computer-based Personalized Feedback Intervention (PFI) among HIV+ hazardous alcohol users in a high volume Houston HIV clinic. H1: The PFI group will show increases in self-efficacy, intention to reduce or quit drinking, and decreases in actual drinking, relative to the control group. H2: Reduced drinking will be associated with less risky sexual behavior, better antiretroviral therapy (ART) medication adherence, and improved HIV quality of life. H3: Changes in normative perceptions, alcohol use attitudes, self-efficacy for alcohol abstinence, intentions to use, alcohol outcome expectancies, and protective behavioral strategies will mediate intervention effects on drinking behavior. Even if the investigators do not find significant effects on our main outcomes, these will also serve as useful proximal dependent variables that will provide important information regarding the feasibility of this intervention approach in this population. H4: Intervention effects on drinking outcomes will be stronger for those who report drinking more for social and/or coping reasons.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03935945

Run by

University of Houston

People needed

150

Starts

2018-01-20

Expected to finish

2020-01-31

Last updated by the study team

2019-05-02

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 50. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• HIV+ as confirmed by medical records
• AUDIT scores for the last 30 days to be ≤7 for women and ≤8 for men
• Between the ages of 18 and 50
• Not currently pregnant
• Reading level on Word Reading component of Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT-4) at or above a 5th grade level and proficient in English (although English does not have to be the first language, they must be fluent enough to understand study materials and measures)
• Not currently in alcohol treatment
• Do not have a current psychiatric diagnosis that would preclude them from being in our study as determined by the MINI (MINI INTERNATIONAL NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INTERVIEW) neuropsychiatric interview

You may not qualify if…

• Not meeting inclusion criteria
• Unwillingness to participate
• Failure to provide consent

Where it is running

• Thomas Street Health Center — Houston, Texas, United States (enrolling)

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