Official websites use .gov

A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS

A lock ( 🔒 ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Need Help

Type 1 Hybrid Implementation Effectiveness Cluster Randomized Trial of an mHealth Intervention to Help Parents Prevent Early Onset Alcohol Use.

Award Number: R01AA031980
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/20/2025
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2030

Group Awards By:

View Award Description

Type 1 Hybrid Implementation Effectiveness Cluster Randomized Trial of an mHealth Intervention to Help Parents Prevent Early Onset Alcohol Use. - Drinking before age 14, or “early-onset alcohol use” (EOAU), is a serious and highly prevalent risk behavior that often begins at home, with sips of alcohol provided by parents. By age 11, nearly one-quarter of U.S. children have already sipped alcohol. Our research has identified specific parenting beliefs and behaviors that are not being adequately addressed in family-based interventions. This research shows that many parents who provide alcohol have the mistaken belief that doing so teaches children how to drink in moderation; other parents report simply not having given thought to the risks. Even in the context of other protective factors, adolescents whose parents had permissive beliefs about alcohol use exhibited quicker escalations in alcohol involvement across adolescence than did those whose parents had less permissive beliefs. We developed and piloted an intervention program called Better Informed Parents Keeping Adolescents Safe from Alcohol (BIPAS), which is a universal, theory-informed, digital intervention for parents of incoming middle schoolers that is delivered via mobile devices. Findings from the pilot study demonstrated that BIPAS is highly acceptable to parents and can be delivered at low cost. Furthermore, preliminary results show that BIPAS is effective across a range of cognitive and behavioral outcomes, including parental provision of sips of alcohol to their children. Building on this research, the current application has the following aims. Aim 1: Expand the reach of BIPAS to by translating it into Spanish while maintaining fidelity to key intervention content; Aim 2: Use a rigorous national cluster-randomized trial with 2,000 parent-child dyads (N = 4,000 total) to assess the effects of BIPAS on EOAU, secondary outcomes (e.g., children’s alcohol use susceptibility), and hypothesized mediators that are the target of the intervention (e.g., parental permissive beliefs about adolescent alcohol use) relative to an attention control condition; and Aim 3: Evaluate implementation outcomes, including program reach, participant engagement and experience, and delivery cost. Aim 3 will include qualitative interviews to identify implementation supports that address factors that inhibit engagement. Across all aims, we will examine variability in mechanisms and outcomes across multiple dimensions, including parent language, educational attainment, and alcohol use status. By rigorously testing the effectiveness of a universal digital intervention with the potential for widespread reach, this study will provide novel evidence for reducing EOAU and its associated consequences. Furthermore, our findings regarding implementation supports for reaching families will provide insights into how best to support engagement more broadly across other digital parenting interventions.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2026 ( Subtotal = $699,866 )
2026	2026	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	3040 CORNWALLIS RD	DURHAM	NC	27709	DURHAM	USA	Alcohol Research Programs	000	2	8/19/2026	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$699,866
														Subtotal = $699,866

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $711,938 )
2025	2025	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	3040 CORNWALLIS RD	DURHAM	NC	27709	DURHAM	USA	Alcohol Research Programs	000	1	9/15/2025	NEW	$711,938
														Subtotal = $711,938

Grand Total All Awards = $1,411,804

Top

All Categories

About

Search

Reports

Data Submission

Award Information

Type 1 Hybrid Implementation Effectiveness Cluster Randomized Trial of an mHealth Intervention to Help Parents Prevent Early Onset Alcohol Use.

Award Number: R01AA031980

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/20/2025

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2030

Federal Websites

Department of Health & Human Services

HHS Operating Divisions

HHS Staff Divisions

Download A Document Viewer