Web Intervention for Concerned Partners to Prevent Service Member Alcohol Abuse Abuse (PC)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02073825 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : February 27, 2014
Last Update Posted : September 29, 2017
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Alcohol Abuse | Behavioral: Web Brief Intervention (WBI) | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 312 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Prevention |
Official Title: | Web Intervention for Concerned Partners to Prevent Service Member Alcohol Abuse |
Study Start Date : | November 2014 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | October 2015 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | August 31, 2017 |
Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Web Brief Intervention (WBI)
4-session WBI
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Behavioral: Web Brief Intervention (WBI)
4-session WBI |
No Intervention: Delayed-WBI
4-session WBI after follow-up
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- Perceptions of Partner's Drinking [ Time Frame: Three months after intervention ]DNRF: "Consider a typical week during the past month (30 days). How much alcohol, on average, (measured in number of drinks), do you think your partner had on each day of a typical week?"
- Concern about Partner's Drinking [ Time Frame: Three months after intervention ]Thinking about your Partner's Drinking (TPD): http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306460313002517
- Partner's readiness to change [ Time Frame: Three months after intervention ]On a scale from 0 to 10, how ready do you feel your partner is to change his/her drinking?
- Partner help-seeking [ Time Frame: Three months after intervention ]On a scale from 0 to 10, how ready do you think your partner feels about seeking help for their drinking (for example, talking with a counselor or going to AA meetings regularly).
- Relationship Quality [ Time Frame: Three months after intervention ]Quality Marriage Index (QMI): Norton, R. (1983). Measuring marital quality: A critical look at the dependent variable. Journal of Marriage and Family, 45, 141-151.
- CP Depression and Anxiety [ Time Frame: Three months after intervention ]PHQ-8 and BAI
- Family Environment [ Time Frame: Three months after intervention ]Family Environment Scale (FES)

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- if they are currently living with their partner,
- if they have had contact with their partner at least 40% of the time in the past 90 days (e.g., most of the evenings or most of the days in a given week),
- if they are in a romantic relationship with the service member,
- if they have a computer they can use in a private area,
- if the CP and service member are at least 18 years of age,
- if their partner is currently an active duty service member,
- if the CP or service member has not attended couples or drug/alcohol counseling in the past 60 days,
- if the CP does not plan to separate from their partner in the next 60 days,
- if they feel their partner has a problem with their drinking, and
- if they do not endorse any domestic violence in the past year. -
Exclusion Criteria:
- if the CP plans to seek counseling in the next 90 days, and/or
- reports feeling unsafe to discuss drinking with his/her partner -

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02073825
United States, California | |
RAND | |
Santa Monica, California, United States, 90407 |
Principal Investigator: | Karen C Osilla, PhD | RAND |
Other Publications:
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Responsible Party: | Karen Osilla, Behavioral Scientist, RAND |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT02073825 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
R34AA023123 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract ) R34AA023123 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract ) |
First Posted: | February 27, 2014 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | September 29, 2017 |
Last Verified: | September 2017 |
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