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These veterans often face significant barriers to behavioral health treatment, and reaching them through brief mobile phone\u2013based interventions may help reduce drinking and promote treatment engagement.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Objective<\/jats:title>\n Following a successful pilot study, this randomized controlled trial (RCT) aims to further test the efficacy of a brief (ie, single session) mobile phone\u2013delivered personalized normative feedback intervention enhanced with content to promote treatment engagement.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods<\/jats:title>\n We will conduct an RCT with 800 post-9\/11 young adult veterans (aged 18 to 40 years) with potentially hazardous drinking and who have not recently received treatment for any behavioral health problems. Participants will be randomly assigned to the personalized intervention or a control condition with resources for seeking care. The personalized normative feedback module in the intervention focuses on the correction of misperceived norms of peer alcohol use and uses empirically informed approaches to increase motivation to address alcohol use and co-occurring behavioral health problems. Past 30-day drinking, alcohol-related consequences, and treatment-seeking behaviors will be assessed at baseline and 3, 6, 9, and 12 months post intervention. Sex, barriers to care, posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and severity of alcohol use disorder symptoms will be explored as potential moderators of outcomes.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n We expect recruitment to be completed within 6 months, with data collection taking 12 months for each enrolled participant. 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