Trial reportJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs2014
A pilot study of two supervision approaches for peer-led alcohol interventions with mandated college students.
Trial report in Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03812146 (An Integrated Brief Alcohol and PTSD Intervention for Veterans in Primary Care), which is not on this map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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An Integrated Brief Alcohol and PTSD Intervention for Veterans in Primary Care
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- A meta-analysis of motivational interviewing process: Technical, relational, and conditional process models of change.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2018Pooled it
- Long-term effects of a peer-led Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS) intervention to reduce alcohol consumption among Spanish university students: A 12-month randomised controlled trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Trial
- Experiences of Peer Mentoring Sexual and Gender Minority Emerging Adults Who Are at Risk for Suicide: Mixed Methods Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Trial
- Peer-led BASICS intervention to reduce alcohol consumption and alcohol-related consequences among university students: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in public health · 2023Trial
- A pilot study comparing peer supported web-based CBT to self-managed web CBT for primary care veterans with PTSD and hazardous alcohol use.Psychiatric rehabilitation journal · 2019Trial
- Mandated college students' response to sequentially administered alcohol interventions in a randomized clinical trial using stepped care.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2016Trial
- Self-Report After Randomly Assigned Supervision Does not Predict Ability to Practice Motivational Interviewing.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2015Trial
- In-session processes of brief motivational interventions in two trials with mandated college students.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2015Trial
- Response of heavy-drinking voluntary and mandated college students to a peer-led brief motivational intervention addressing alcohol use.Journal of substance abuse treatmentTrial
- Peer-led interventions to reduce alcohol consumption in college students: A scoping review.Health & social care in the community · 2022Article
- Training Young Adult Peers in a Mobile Motivational Interviewing-Based Mentoring Approach to Upstream HIV Prevention.American journal of community psychology · 2021Article
- Do As I Say, Not As I Do.Journal of drug education · 2016Article
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Authors and funding
4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveDespite the increasing need to identify and implement effective interventions to reduce drinking with mandated college students, peer-led brief alcohol interventions have received minimal research attention. The current pilot study tested whether enhanced supervision (evidence-based application approach [EAA; group plus individual]) would improve peer counseling skills beyond those acquired by a common practice approach (CPA; group only).
methodFollowing initial peer counselor skill evaluation, drinking outcomes after intervention were compared between supervision groups with a mandated college student sample (N = 82; 65 men). The relationship between acquired motivational interviewing skills and subsequent drinking behaviors was also assessed.
resultsEAA peer counselors showed higher motivational interviewing skill acquisition than CPA peer counselors. Despite differences in counselor skill demonstration, mandated clients in both intervention groups significantly reduced drinking behaviors. Further, higher reflection-to-question ratio and motivational interviewing spirit demonstrated by peer counselors were significantly related to poorer follow-up drinking outcomes.
conclusionsFindings identify supervision practices that may result in optimal peer counselor learning and brief intervention implementation while also offering initial data about the way in which peer counseling session implementation may relate to drinking outcomes. Future research is needed to identify the within-session processes of peer-led interventions that predict drinking outcomes, which may offer additional direction for training approaches.
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