Collaborative Opportunities for Reducing Alcohol and Sexual Violence Together

Part of paid clinical trials in Buffalo, New York.

Sponsor
State University of New York at Buffalo
Study ID
NCT07261722
Status
Recruiting
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Conditions

  • Behavior Change
  • Military Training
  • Sexual Violence

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
18 Years - 24 Years
Healthy Volunteers
Accepted

Interventions

  • Peer-Based Motivational Interview — BEHAVIORAL
    The intervention will use Motivational Interviewing's (MI) collaborative conversation style for strengthening commitment to change, to motivate and prepare service members to work together to reduce Sexual Violence (SV) risk. This intervention will target ways that the peer dyad may support, encourage, and share responsibility with one another in protecting against SV. The Peer-based MI (PMI) will then use the responsibility and relationship of peers as a framework to foster collaborative efforts to increase readiness and decrease barriers to helping behavior. As part of this, the PMI will focus on the identification and implementation of skills peers can use to help one another prevent SV. PMI will include a focused discussion of the ways drinking may impede helping efforts. Moreover, the PMI will encourage service members to identify personal, specific strategies for reducing the effects of alcohol on helping.
  • Health and Well-Being for All — BEHAVIORAL
    This single-session intervention, is designed to be delivered to peers in a group or dyad-based format, examines social determinants of health and wellness across a variety of domains. The intervention outlines a 6-step process for improving overall wellness. The CDC offers a number of handouts and other materials (e.g., peer dialogue exercises, data cards) that accompany the didactic material. In this study, the HWBA intervention will be delivered by a project interventionist. The session will be designed to be time equivalent (90 minutes) to the MPAIRs intervention. (Pember, 2018)

Study Details

The goal of this clinical trial is to test if a modified peer-based motivational intervention (the Military PAIRS; MPAIRS) is reasonable and practical for military contexts. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Does it works to reduce SV? * Does it works to reduce risky drinking? To test this, participants will answer questions about their SV history and risky drinking. Then they will be given MPAIRS. After 1 month, they will be asked about their SV history and risky drinking again.

Key Dates

Start date
Oct 10, 2025
Status verified
Apr 2026
Primary completion
Mar 31, 2027
Completion
Apr 30, 2027

Study Design

Enrollment
132 participants (estimated)
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION

Arms

  • Experimental: Peer-Based Motivational Interview (PMI) (Phase One)
    Will participate in the Peer-Based Motivational Interview (PMI) intervention in Phase One
  • Experimental: Peer-Based Motivational Interview (PMI) (Phase Two)
    Will participate in the Peer-Based Motivational Interview (PMI) intervention in Phase Two
  • Active Comparator: Health and Well-Being for All
    The control group for Phase Two will be Health and Well-Being For All intervention.

Primary Outcome Measure

Readiness to intervene [ Time Frame: In Phase 1, at baseline and 4 week follow up. In Phase 2, at baseline, 1 month follow up, 2 month follow up, and 3 month follow up. ]

Central Contacts

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
University at Buffalo Department of PsychologyBuffaloNew York14260
Jennifer P Read, Ph.D.
[email protected]
716-883-2574

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