Trial reportPsychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors2009
What makes group MET work? A randomized controlled trial of college student drinkers in mandated alcohol diversion.
Trial report in Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 102 citations in OpenAlex.
- Alcohol interventions for mandated college students: A meta-analytic review.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2016Pooled it
- Social norms information for alcohol misuse in university and college students.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Interventions to reduce college student drinking: State of the evidence for mechanisms of behavior change.Clinical psychology review · 2015Pooled it
- Single-Session Alcohol Interventions for Heavy Drinking College Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2015Pooled it
- Profiles of behavior change constructs for reducing alcohol use in women at risk of an alcohol-exposed pregnancy.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2018Trial
- Do As I Say: Using Communication Role-Plays to Assess Sexual Assertiveness Following an Intervention.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2016Trial
- Alcohol interventions for mandated students: behavioral outcomes from a randomized controlled pilot study.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2015Trial
- The comparative effectiveness of individual and group brief motivational interventions for mandated college students.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2014Trial
- A quasi-randomized group trial of a brief alcohol intervention on risky single occasion drinking among secondary school students.International journal of public health · 2012Trial
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- Self-Efficacy as a Mechanism of Behavior Change in Addiction Science and Practice.Current addiction reports · 2025Article
- Motivational Interventions for Reducing Excessive Alcohol Consumption Among University Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Prevention of hazardous use of alcohol among high school students: a study protocol for the randomized controlled trial 'Our choice'.BMC public health · 2023Article
- The indirect effect of negative emotionality via alcohol craving on abstinence self-efficacy among women in alcohol treatment.Addictive behaviors · 2022Article
- Motivational Interviewing Adapted to Group Setting for the Treatment of Relapse in the Behavioral Therapy of Obesity. A Clinical Audit.Nutrients · 2020Article
- Consumer Health Information Technology in the Prevention of Substance Abuse: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2019Article
- Testing Mediators of Reduced Drinking for Veterans in Alcohol Care Management.Military medicine · 2018Article
- The impact of therapists' words on the adolescent brain: In the context of addiction treatment.Behavioural brain research · 2016Article
- Development and Implementation of CHOICES Group to Reduce Drinking, Improve Contraception, and Prevent Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies in American Indian Women.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2015Article
- Measurement invariance of alcohol instruments with Hispanic youth.Addictive behaviors · 2015Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Nationally, college drinkers exhibit the highest rates of alcohol consumption and represent the largest percentage of problem drinkers. Group motivational enhancement therapy (GMET) has been found to catalyze problem drinking reductions among college student samples. Although research supporting the use of single-session GMET in college samples (general and mandated) is emergent, no studies have evaluated a comprehensive model of the potential active ingredients of this group intervention. College students (N = 206; 88% White; 63% men; M age = 18.6) mandated to a university alcohol diversion program were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 conditions: the standard-of-care 2-session "Focus on Alcohol Concerns" education group (FAC), a single GMET, or a single alcohol information-only control group (AI) to evaluate the role of 5 putative mediators: readiness to change, self-efficacy, perceived risk, norm estimates, and positive drinking expectancies. At 3- and 6-month follow-ups, GMET students demonstrated greater reductions in problem drinking outcomes (drinks per drinking day, hazardous drinking symptoms, and alcohol-related problems). Of the 5 mediators proposed, only self-efficacy emerged as a significant mediator.
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