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Integrated Digital Health Approach to Reduce Hazardous Alcohol Use and Chronic Pain Among Rural Populations
Sponsor: Boston University Charles River Campus
Summary
The current proposal seeks to test the benefit of a brief intervention combined with a digital program delivered though a smartphone app for reducing chronic pain and hazardous drinking among those in rural settings. Participants are recruited through social media and complete an online pre-screener and telephone screener to determine eligibility. All subsequent study assessment procedures are conducted through videoconferencing online. Participants complete 3 assessments over the course of 8 months. Following the first (baseline assessment) participants are randomized to either the INTERVENTION (INTV) or a treatment-as-usual CONTROL (CTL) condition. Those in the INTV condition meet with a health counselor for up to 50 minutes and then complete an 8-week smartphone-based intervention with weekly SMS based brief coaching. This in the CTL group meet with the health counselor only. Participants complete additional assessments at 3-months and 8-months post -baseline. Measures of alcohol use and pain are assessed after the intervention at 3 months and at the final outcome period at 8-months post-baseline.
Official title: Alcohol Use and Pain in Rural Populations
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
260
Start Date
2027-02-01
Completion Date
2030-12
Last Updated
2026-09-04
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Mobile Intervention for Alcohol and Pain
The Intervention (INTV) is a brief motivational intervention with a health counselor followed by an 8-week smartphone-based program in which participants are provided with cognitive behavioral and self-management skills to reduce hazardous drinking and chronic pain. They practice skills using the app and have weekly contact with the health counselor through instant messaging
Control Intervention
Participants are provided with psychoeducation about the reciprocal influences of hazardous drinking and chronic pain and their joint effects on health outcomes. In addition, they are provided with information about free web-based national resources should they wish to receive more information or additional help with pain or drinking
Locations (1)
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States