Trial reportJournal of health communication2014
Effects of an online alcohol education course among college freshmen: an investigation of potential mediators.
Trial report in Journal of health communication, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Use of theory in computer-based interventions to reduce alcohol use among adolescents and young adults: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2016Pooled it
- Digital Intervention Components for Preventing and Reducing Substance Use in Adolescents and Emerging Adults: A Comprehensive Scoping Review.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2026Article
- Self-reported campus alcohol policy and college alcohol consumption: a multilevel analysis of 4592 Korean students from 82 colleges.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2020Article
- Comparative Effectiveness of Brief Alcohol Interventions for College Students: Results from a Network Meta-Analysis.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2019Review
- Recruiting and retaining first-year college students in online health research: Implementation considerations.Journal of American college health : J of ACHArticle
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Abstract
The authors investigated possible mediating effects of psychosocial variables (perceived drinking norms, positive and negative alcohol expectancies, personal approval of alcohol use, protective behavioral strategies) targeted by an online alcohol education course (AlcoholEdu for College) as part of a 30-campus randomized trial with 2,400 first-year students. Previous multilevel analyses have found significant effects of the AlcoholEdu course on the frequency of past-30-day alcohol use and binge drinking during the fall semester, and the most common types of alcohol-related problems. Exposure to the online AlcoholEdu course was inversely related to perceived drinking norms but was not related to any of the other psychosocial variables. Multilevel analyses indicated at least partial mediating effects of perceived drinking norms on behavioral outcomes. Findings of this study suggest that AlcoholEdu for College affects alcohol use and related consequences indirectly through its effect on student perceptions of drinking norms. Further research is needed to better understand why this online course did not appear to affect other targeted psychosocial variables.
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