Digitally Prompted Parenting: A Text Message Parent-Based Alcohol Intervention for Incoming College Students

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Underage Drinking

In brief

This pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) will evaluate both the feasibility and efficacy of Digitally Prompted Parenting (DPP), a text-message based parent intervention (tm-PBI) designed to prevent and reduce alcohol use among first-year college students. In this study, parents of incoming first-year students will receive risk-reducing text messages during the first 10 weeks of the Fall semester, which they can forward to their students. The trial uses a longitudinal design to compare drinking outcomes between students whose parents receive the DPP messages and those whose parents receive an established alcohol PBI (the active control condition). The investigators hypothesize that students in the DPP group will report lower levels of alcohol use and fewer alcohol-related consequences after the intervention compared to those in the active control group.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06861660

Run by

Loyola Marymount University

People needed

276

Starts

2025-06-27

Expected to finish

2026-03-16

Last updated by the study team

2026-04-16

Who can join

Age: 17 and older, up to 20. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Student is 17-20 years of age
• Student is an LMU incoming first-year college student
• Student has access to a cellular device capable of receiving text messages
• Student's parent or legal guardian has an email address on file at LMU
• Student's parent or legal guardian has a cellular device capable of receiving text messages
• Student's parent or legal guardian received an invitation from the research team to participate
• Student's parent or legal guardian signed up to access the assigned intervention
• Student's parent or legal guardian is a resident of the United States
• Informed consent (or assent, as applicable) is provided

You may not qualify if…

• Student is not 17-20 years of age
• Student is not an LMU incoming first-year college student
• Student does not have access to a cellular device capable of receiving text messages
• Student's parent or legal guardian does not have an email address on file at LMU
• Student's parent or legal guardian does not have a cellular device capable of receiving text messages
• Student's parent or legal guardian did not receive an invitation from the research team to participate
• Student's parent or legal guardian did not sign up to access the assigned intervention
• Student's parent or legal guardian is not a resident of the United States
• Informed consent (or assent, as applicable) is not provided

Where it is running

• Loyola Marymount — Los Angeles, California, United States

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