SynthesisPrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2015
Text messaging interventions for adolescent and young adult substance use: a meta-analysis.
Synthesis in Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03451344 (A Community-based Addiction Rehabilitation Electronic System to Improve Recovery Outcomes in Patients With Drug Use Disorder), which is not on this map. Cited by 93 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Community-based Addiction Rehabilitation Electronic System to Improve Recovery Outcomes in Patients With Drug Use Disorder: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
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93 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 175 citations in OpenAlex.
- Peer Network Counseling Effects on Substance Use: an Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis Integrating Three Randomized Controlled Trials.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Pooled it
- Effect of Engagement With Digital Interventions on Mental Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in digital health · 2021Pooled it
- A systematic review of smartphone applications for smoking cessation.Translational behavioral medicine · 2017Pooled it
- Feasibility and acceptability of a trauma-informed and peer-supported digital brief intervention for heavy-drinking emerging adults with interpersonal trauma.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2026Trial
- Individualized Treatment Effects of a Digital Smoking Cessation Intervention Among Individuals Looking Online for Help: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Trial
- Adaptive interventions for alcohol misuse and violent behaviors among adolescents and emerging adults in the emergency department: Outcomes from a sequential multiple assignment randomized controlled trial.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Trial
- Text message-delivered cannabis use disorder treatment with young adults: A large randomized clinical trial.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2025Trial
- Text Messaging to Extend School-Based Suicide Prevention: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mental health · 2024Trial
- Universal School-Based Substance Use Prevention Using Technology-Supported Cooperative Learning.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2024Trial
- A randomized pilot trial of a mobile phone-based brief intervention with personalized feedback and interactive text messaging to reduce driving after cannabis use and riding with a cannabis impaired driver.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2022Trial
- Effectiveness of a Text Message Intervention Promoting Seat Belt Use Among Young Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2022Trial
- Six-Month Outcomes from the NEXit Junior Trial of a Text Messaging Smoking Cessation Intervention for High School Students: Randomized Controlled Trial With Bayesian Analysis.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2021Trial
- Project CHOICE: Choosing healthy options in coping with emotions, an EMA/EMI plus in-person intervention for alcohol use.Substance abuse · 2021Trial
- mHealth smoking cessation intervention among high school students: 3-month primary outcome findings from a randomized controlled trial.PloS one · 2020Trial
- Heterogeneous treatment effects of a text messaging smoking cessation intervention among university students.PloS one · 2020Trial
- Emergency department text messaging for adolescent violence and depression prevention: A pilot randomized controlled trial.Psychological services · 2018Trial
- Efficacy of a mobile phone-based life-skills training program for substance use prevention among adolescents: study protocol of a cluster-randomised controlled trial.BMC public health · 2018Trial
- Delivering normative feedback to heavy drinking college students via text messaging: A pilot feasibility study.Addictive behaviors · 2018Trial
- A pilot trial of text-delivered peer network counseling to treat young adults with cannabis use disorder.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2018Trial
- Developing a tailored substance use intervention for youth exiting foster care.Child abuse & neglect · 2018Trial
33 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Tobacco and alcohol use continues to be associated with negative health outcomes among adolescents and young adults. New technologies such as text messaging can increase access to substance use interventions and have now been established as an evidence-based, recommended approach towards substance use prevention. This review presents results from a meta-analysis examining the effectiveness of text message interventions for tobacco and alcohol cessation within adolescent and young adult populations. Results from 14 studies with effect sizes are ranging from -0.25 to 0.54. Combining the effect sizes across studies yielded a summary effect size of 0.25, indicating that in general, text interventions have a positive effect on reducing substance use behaviors. Results are discussed in the context of prevention opportunities and recommendations for future text messaging intervention research.
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