An interventional study of CRAFT Web-Based Intervention and Phone-Based CRAFT in Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Use Disorder and Alcohol Drinking, sponsored by Stanford University. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-19.
Sponsored by Stanford University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of an adaptive web intervention (Partners Connect) on military spouse drinking behaviors (CPs) and service member help-seeking (SMs). The investigators want to identify for whom this intervention is most efficacious and on what drinking behaviors and mechanisms. The investigators hypothesize that the intervention will reduce concerned partner drinking and increase service member help-seeking, compared to website resources, and that phone-based CRAFT will increase help-seeking behaviors, compared to those who are guided via a CRAFT workbook.
Our outcome is to evaluate the efficacy of an adaptive CP intervention on CP well-being and service member help-seeking.
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We require cohabitating CPs and SMs with no anticipated changes in the next two months to ensure close contact and opportunity to practice new skills, and those who would feel safe participating.
Exclusion Criteria:
Those randomized to the CRAFT intervention will receive a web-based intervention
Behavioral: CRAFT Web-Based Intervention · Behavioral: Phone-Based CRAFT · Behavioral: CRAFT Workbook
Those randomized to CONTROL will complete a self-guided intervention
Behavioral: Gottman Self-Guided Resources
If a member of the recruited dyad does not respond, then participants will be randomized to receive phone-based CRAFT
Behavioral: CRAFT Web-Based Intervention · Behavioral: Phone-Based CRAFT
If a member of the recruited dyad does not respond, then participants will be randomized to receive a CRAFT workbook
Behavioral: CRAFT Web-Based Intervention · Behavioral: CRAFT Workbook
Session 1 addresses CPs' mental health issues and drinking. CPs select reasons why they are seeking help and steps they will take towards those goals. Session 2 is focused on improving their relationship through communication exercises. Session 3 is focused on functional analysis of their partner's drinking, and how to positively reinforce their partner's sobriety and negatively reinforce their drinking. Finally, Session 4 focuses on continuing self-care and talking with their partner about their concerns while interacting with them in healthy ways. The WBI contains audio, video, text, and exercises that utilize digital storytelling and vignettes to convey teaching points - a method utilized by the military to address stigma and increase treatment utilization. Actresses portrayed different experiences that the CP may be going through and modeled skills. CPs clicked on the vignette that they most connected with and followed that character across all the sessions.
Also known as: WBI, Partners Connect, Web-based intervention (WBI)
The phone-based CRAFT intervention consists of six individual sessions with a CRAFT clinician that will explore what they learned from the WBI and additional skills they need. Session content includes positive reinforcement of non-drinking SM behaviors, refraining from interfering in SM's consequences of alcohol use, communication skills, and self-care.
Also known as: Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) phone sessions
The self-directed CRAFT workbook Table 1.Partners Connect WBI has a parent and partner version that uses CRAFT to help the CP help with understanding, self-care, communication, and actions (e.g., how to react when a partner has been using substances and when they have not been using substances, how to talk to partner so that they are more likely to be heard) and includes more information about communicating than the WBI and several interactive worksheets.
Also known as: Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) workbook
To match time spent reviewing the website, CPs will receive an orientation guide that includes the website URL and a 4-week guide for how they can navigate this website for 20-30 minutes per week (e.g., read article "'It's Not My Fault!': Why Defensiveness is Damaging" and write down one tool to dissolve defensiveness you're willing to try). We will send reminder emails each week to visit the website and include questions in the emails and our first online follow-up survey asking CPs approximately how many times they visited the website and how long they spent viewing content on the website. Reminder emails will be programmed such that CPs get directed automatically to the website if the CP notes no time spent on it.
CP Depression
Depression as measured by the global score on the Patient Health Questionnaire 9-item (PHQ-9). Scores range from 0 - 27. Higher scores indicate more severe depression.
Time frame: Baseline to 6 month follow-up
CP Anxiety
Anxiety as measured by the global score on the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale (GAD-7). Scores range from 0 - 21. Higher scores indicate more severe anxiety.
Time frame: Baseline to 6 month follow-up
Service Member help-seeking
Completion of the personalized normalized feedback (PNF) component of the intervention as a signal of increase help-seeking behavior
Time frame: Baseline to 6 month
Plan to share: No — There will be no IPD shared
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