Trial reportJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2014
Randomized controlled trial of a Spring Break intervention to reduce high-risk drinking.
Trial report in Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03930524 (An Adaptive Preventive Intervention to Optimize the Transition From Universal to Indicated Resources for College Student Alcohol Use), which is not on this map. Cited by 45 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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An Adaptive Preventive Intervention to Optimize the Transition From Universal to Indicated Resources for College Student Alcohol Use
Who cites it
45 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 73 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions implemented through sporting organisations for promoting healthy behaviour or improving health outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of motivational interviewing process: Technical, relational, and conditional process models of change.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2018Pooled it
- A multivariate meta-analysis of motivational interviewing process and outcome.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2017Pooled it
- Advancing methods for reliably assessing motivational interviewing fidelity using the motivational interviewing skills code.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2015Pooled it
- Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for Community College Students (BASICCS): Feasibility and preliminary efficacy of web-conferencing BASICCS and supporting automated text messages.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2021Trial
- Preventing College Sexual Victimization by Reducing Hookups: a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Personalized Normative Feedback Intervention.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2020Trial
- Online personalized normative feedback intervention to reduce event-specific drinking during Mardi Gras.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2019Trial
- The Efficacy of an Event-Specific, Text Message, Personalized Drinking Feedback Intervention.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2019Trial
- Digital Intervention Components for Preventing and Reducing Substance Use in Adolescents and Emerging Adults: A Comprehensive Scoping Review.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2026Article
- Association of machine-learning-rated supportive counseling skills with psychotherapy outcome.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2025Article
- High Spirits? Exploring "Halloweekend" Alcohol and Cannabis Use Among Heavy-Drinking College Students.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2023Article
- An examination of the associations between depressive symptoms, perceived parental discipline, alcohol use, and drinking-related consequences during the first year of college: A moderated mediation model.Journal of affective disorders reports · 2023Article
- The Silent Treatment?: Changes in patient emotional expression after silence.Counselling and psychotherapy research · 2023Article
- It's not what you said, it's how you said it: An analysis of therapist vocal features during psychotherapy.Counselling and psychotherapy research · 2023Article
- "On a night like this": A mixed-methods approach to understanding high-risk drinking events in college students.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2022Article
- Automated evaluation of psychotherapy skills using speech and language technologies.Behavior research methods · 2022Article
- Leveraging dynamic norms to reduce alcohol use among college students: A proof-of-concept experimental study.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2021Article
- Nonmedical Use of Prescription Stimulants as a "Red Flag" for Other Substance Use.Substance use & misuse · 2021Article
- Intrapersonal and interpersonal pathways linking 21st birthday celebration beliefs, intentions, and drinking behavior.Addictive behaviors · 2020Article
- Coregulation of therapist and client emotion during psychotherapy.Psychotherapy research : journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveAlthough recent studies have documented high-risk drinking occurring during Spring Break (SB), particularly on SB trips with friends, published intervention studies are few. In the present study, we evaluated the efficacy of event specific prevention strategies for reducing SB drinking among college students, compared to general prevention strategies and an assessment-only control group, as well as evaluated inclusion of peers in interventions and mode of intervention delivery (in-person vs. web).
methodParticipants included 783 undergraduates (56.1% women; average age = 20.5 years) intending to go on a SB trip with friends as well as to drink heavily on at least 1 day of SB. Participants completed assessments prior to SB and were randomized to 1 of 5 intervention conditions: SB in-person Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS; Dimeff, Baer, Kivlahan, & Marlatt, 1999), SB web BASICS, SB in-person BASICS with friend, SB web BASICS with friend, general BASICS, or an attention control condition. Follow-up assessment was completed 1 week after SB.
resultsAlthough the SB web BASICS (with and without friends) and general BASICS interventions were not effective at reducing SB drinking, results indicated significant intervention effects for SB in-person BASICS in reducing SB drinking, particularly on trip days. Follow-up analyses indicated that change in descriptive norms mediated treatment effect and reductions in drinking, whereas SB drinking intentions and positive expectancies did not.
conclusionsOverall, results suggest that an in-person SB-specific intervention is effective at reducing SB drinking, especially during trips. In contrast, interventions that contain non-SB-related content, are web-based, or seek to involve friends may be less effective at reducing SB drinking.
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