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ArticleJournal of medical Internet research2013

A pre-post study on the appropriateness and effectiveness of a Web- and text messaging-based intervention to reduce problem drinking in emerging adults.

Severin Haug, Michael P Schaub, Vigeli Venzin, Christian Meyer, Ulrich John, Gerhard Gmel

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Article in Journal of medical Internet research, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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35 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. The Effectiveness of Mobile Phone-Based Text Messaging to Intervene with Problem Drinking in Youth and Younger Adult Population: A Meta-Analysis.Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association · 2020
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  16. Correcting exaggerated drinking norms with a mobile message delivery system: Selective prevention with heavy-drinking first-year college students.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Severin HaugSwiss Research Institute for Public Health and Addiction at Zurich University, Zurich, Switzerland. severin.haug@isgf.uzh.ch
Michael P Schaub
Vigeli Venzin
Christian Meyer
Ulrich John
Gerhard Gmel
Addiction Switzerland · CHUniversitätsmedizin Greifswald · DEUniversity of Zurich · CH

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundProblem drinking, particularly risky single-occasion drinking (RSOD), also called "binge drinking", is widespread among adolescents and young adults in most Western countries. Few studies have tested the effectiveness of interventions to reduce RSOD in young people with heterogeneous and particularly lower educational background.

objectiveTo test the appropriateness and initial effectiveness of a combined, individually tailored Web- and text messaging (SMS)-based intervention program to reduce problem drinking in vocational school students.

methodsThe fully automated program provided: (1) online feedback about an individual's drinking pattern compared to the drinking norms of an age- and gender-specific reference group, and (2) recurrent individualized SMS messages over a time period of 3 months. Generalized Estimating Equation (GEE) analyses were used to investigate the longitudinal courses of the following outcomes over the study period of 3 months: RSOD, alcohol-related problems, mean number of standard drinks per week, and maximum number of standard drinks on an occasion.

resultsThe program was tested in 36 school classes at 7 vocational schools in Switzerland. Regardless of their drinking behavior, 477 vocational school students who owned a mobile phone were invited to participate in the program. Of these, 364 (76.3%) participated in the program. During the intervention period, 23 out of 364 (6.3%) persons unsubscribed from participating in the program. The GEE analyses revealed decreases in the percentage of persons with RSOD from baseline (75.5%, 210/278) to follow-up assessment (67.6%, 188/278, P<.001), in the percentage of persons with alcohol-related problems (20.4%, 57/280 to 14.3%, 40/280, P=.009), and in the mean number of standard drinks per week: 13.4 (SD 15.3) to 11.3 (SD 14.0), P=.002. They also revealed a trend toward a decrease in the mean of the maximum number of drinks consumed on an occasion: 11.3 (SD 10.3) to 10.5 (SD 10.3), P=.08.

conclusionsThe results show high acceptance and promising effectiveness of this interventional approach, which could be easily and economically implemented within school classes.

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InternetText MessagingAdolescentBinge DrinkingFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleOutcome Assessment, Health CareRisk-TakingStudentsSwitzerlandTelemedicineVocational EducationYoung Adultalcohol interventionInternetproblem drinkingtext messagingyoung people

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