Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
96 University of North Texas (141984)
Principal Investigator: Dougherty,Donald Michael
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 401,611
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): Yes
Start and End Dates: 6/10/22 - 5/31/24
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Psychology
Department, Center, School, or Institute: College of Lib Arts & Soc Sci
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Piloting Deposit Contracts to Increase Accessibility of a Contingency Management Intervention to Reduce Problematic Drinking
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
National Institutes of Health
CFDA Link: HHS
93.273
Program Title:
none
CFDA Linked: Alcohol Research Programs
Note:
The proposed pilot study will explore the feasibility of deposit contracts by recruiting heavy-drinking individuals into a deposit contract intervention aimed at reducing their problem drinking (Aim 1) and develop evidence of deposit contract effectiveness and cost- neutrality (Aim 2). Such an intervention would reduce barriers that limit accessibility (such as cost, time, and travel) and ethical concerns. This project is timely, since over a dozen companies are developing "Fitbit"- style alcohol monitoring devices, many of which are now undergoing pilot and validation work in preparation for consumer use (we are a site independently validating one such device). The work proposed will demonstrate feasibility, provide initial evidence of effectiveness, and lay the groundwork for a much larger study of an intervention that could be made widely accessible for reducing problem drinking in a novel and sustainable manner.
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