Status:

COMPLETED

The Role of Agency and Threat-Immediacy in Interactive Digital Narrative Fear Appeals

Lead Sponsor:

Tilburg University

Conditions:

Excessive Drinking

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Aims: The first aim of the study was to assess the effect of agency, i.e. the perception of making meaningful decisions, in an interactive digital narrative fear appeal on self-efficacy beliefs conce...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • above 18 years of age
  • 480 seconds survey completion time
  • both attention checks relating to narrative content passed
  • correctly identified their experimental condition in the manipulation check
  • did not choose to 'drink an alcoholic drink' for all decisions in the interactive narrative
  • did not show signs of alcohol abuse

Exclusion

  • under the age of 18
  • completed the questionnaire in an unreasonably short amount of time
  • they failed one of the two attention checks
  • failed the manipulation check asking them to recall whether they were presented with short- or long-term (high / low immediacy) consequences of excessive drinking
  • chose an alcoholic drink for all decision points
  • showed signs of alcohol dependence as measured above 15 on the Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire (B-YAACQ)

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

November 26 2020

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

December 18 2020

Estimated Enrollment :

178 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT05321238

Start Date

November 26 2020

End Date

December 18 2020

Last Update

April 22 2022

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Tilburg University

Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands, 5037AB