Breast Cancer Study Tracking Risk Awareness of Alcohol Consumption and Improving Knowledge in Young Adult Women

Conditions

• Behavior, Risk

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

FEMALE

Age

18 Years - 25 Years

Healthy Volunteers

Accepted

Interventions

• Alcohol and Breast Cancer Risk Messages — BEHAVIORAL
  Participants will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio to the intervention or control arm. In the intervention arm, participants will receive the co-created intervention content. The investigators co-created the intervention content, including visuals and text, through focus groups with young adult women and refined the draft content based on additional feedback from focus groups, thereby ascertaining the views of young adult women. The intervention content aligns with a conceptual framework and includes messaging with the following themes: 1) Risks of breast cancer from alcohol consumption; 2) Efficacy content promoting behavior change; 3) Relevance to young adult women; 4) Mechanisms through which alcohol consumption increases breast cancer risk; 5) Exposing the alcohol industry's deceptive marketing practices; 6) Comparisons to other behavioral risk factors for cancer.
• Skin Cancer Risk Messages — BEHAVIORAL
  Participants in the control arm will receive text only content about skin cancer risk and prevention. This is based on intervention trials in other cancer prevention areas (e.g., tobacco) where the investigators used this type of control, provides a contact-matched comparison relative to the intervention arm, and ensures consistency of the protocol (e.g., timing of completion and content of measures to be completed) across the trial arms.

Study Details

This randomized trial aims to test the effects of co-created breast cancer counter marketing intervention messages for reducing alcohol consumption and impacting awareness and beliefs about the breast cancer risks from alcohol consumption in young adult women.

Key Dates

Start date

Mar 19, 2026

Status verified

Mar 2026

Primary completion

Jul 1, 2027

Completion

Jul 1, 2027

Study Design

Enrollment

500 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Arms

• Experimental: Co-created Messages
  Participants in the intervention arm will receive the co-created intervention content about alcohol as a risk factor for breast cancer. The investigators will deliver links to the content by text messages to participants' mobile phones.
• Other: Control
  Participants in the control arm will receive text only content about skin cancer risk and prevention. The investigators will deliver links to the content by text messages to participants' mobile phones.

Primary Outcome Measure

Alcohol Consumption [ Time Frame: 12 weeks post intervention ]

Central Contacts

• The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
  800-293-5066
  [email protected]

Locations (1)

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