Clinical Trial: Letter-Writing Add-On to Brief Motivational Intervention for Alcohol Use

U.S., Nov. 10 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07926880) titled 'Letter-Writing Add-On to Brief Motivational Intervention for Alcohol Use' on Oct. 31.

Brief Summary: The goal of this pilot clinical trial is to learn whether adding a brief letter-writing exercise, grounded in Self-Determination Theory (SDT), to a brief motivational intervention (BMI) for alcohol use is feasible and acceptable, and to obtain preliminary estimates of its effects on psychological needs and motivation among adults who drink heavily and sometimes think about or wish they could cut back on their drinking.

The main questions it aims to answer are: (1) Is it feasible to integrate the letter-writing task into an SDT-infor...