An interventional study of Brief Online Binge Eating and Drinking Intervention in Binge Eating and Binge Drinking, sponsored by University of Southern California. Not yet recruiting. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 24 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-03-10.
Sponsored by University of Southern California · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
This pilot project targets both binge drinking and binge eating behavior in college students through a mobile-based online program that provides students with evidence-based intervention material designed to reduce the incidence of both behaviors and encourage students to seek more formal in-person counseling.
Despite the prevalence of binge drinking and binge eating behaviors among college students, few students seek care for either. Intervening with college students early is essential as untreated symptoms of binge drinking and binge eating behaviors can become more severe and persistent over time, often leading to diagnosed disorders and lasting consequences on students' social functioning, physical health, and educational attainment. Thus, the major goal of this research study is to target both binge drinking and binge eating behavior in college students through a mobile-based online program that provides students with evidence-based intervention material designed to reduce the incidence of both behaviors, as well as encourage students to seek more formal in-person counseling. The intervention combines two innovations to facilitate behavior change: (1) personalized drinking and binge eating intervention content with harm reduction and cognitive behavioral skills proven to be efficacious in reducing these problematic behaviors among college students delivered via (2) a mobile-based program that increases accessibility, is easy and engaging to use, and broadens the accessibility of the intervention content to an often non-treatment seeking group. The intervention is informed by evidence-based practices, with student and expert feedback, to help limit alcohol consumption, engage in healthier eating behaviors, and practice alternate strategies to manage negative affect.
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This study's planned enrollment of 300 is above the median of 60 across 143 interventional studies indexed under Bulimia.
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The intervention is a 30 minute mobile phone program designed to address binge eating and drinking. The program addresses underlying loss of control, impulsivity, and emotion regulation common to both binge drinking and binge eating through videos, interactive activities, and psychoeducation.
Behavioral: Brief Online Binge Eating and Drinking Intervention
Campus-specific resources for how to access the university's counseling office (i.e., student mental health services), information about the Eating Disorders program at the university, and information on accessing the university's alcohol and drug awareness offices.
The intervention is an online mobile phone program developed by our research team. It builds upon efficacious brief alcohol interventions with college students by addressing underlying loss of control, impulsivity, and emotion regulation through the use of videos, interactive activities, and psychoeducation.
Also known as: Sip n' Savor
Frequency of past 28-day binge drinking
Number of binge drinking episodes in the past 28 days
Time frame: Baseline, one-month follow-up, and three-month follow-up
Frequency of past 28-day binge eating
Number of binge eating episodes in the past 28 days
Time frame: Baseline, one-month follow-up, and three-month follow-up
Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire (B-YAACQ)
21 alcohol-related consequences experienced in the past month. Sum positive responses to get a score from 0 to 24 (higher score indicates greater number of consequences)
Time frame: Baseline, one-month follow-up, and three-month follow-up
Mental Health/Substance Use Disorder Treatment History Inventory
Utilization of mental health and/or substance use care
Time frame: Baseline, one-month follow-up, and three-month follow-up
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Plan to share: Yes — Following the NIH Data Sharing Policy and Implementation Guidelines, we plan to make the datasets available for sharing at the time that the main project findings are accepted for publication during the final year of the project.
Supporting information: Study protocol
Time frame: Within one year of the main effects paper being submitted for publication
Access criteria: Individual researchers can contact the PIs for data and through filling out a data request and use form that we will create for the purposes of data sharing.
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