Trial reportAddiction science & clinical practice2014
Treatment dismantling pilot study to identify the active ingredients in personalized feedback interventions for hazardous alcohol use: randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Addiction science & clinical practice, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01608763 (What is the Active Ingredient in Personalized Feedback Interventions for Problem Drinkers? A Randomized Controlled Trial), which is not on this map. Cited by 21 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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What is the Active Ingredient in Personalized Feedback Interventions for Problem Drinkers? A Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of social norms messaging approaches for improving health behaviours in developed countries.Nature human behaviour · 2025Pooled it
- Understanding How and Why Alcohol Interventions Prevent and Reduce Problematic Alcohol Consumption among Older Adults: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Internet-Delivered Health Interventions That Work: Systematic Review of Meta-Analyses and Evaluation of Website Availability.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017Pooled it
- Reducing gambling harm through digital self-help intervention: a pilot study in mild to moderate gambling disorder.Harm reduction journal · 2026Trial
- Randomized Controlled Trial of a Brief Versus Extended Internet Intervention for Problem Drinkers.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2017Trial
- Developing a Behavioral Phenotyping Layer for Artificial Intelligence-Driven Predictive Analytics in a Digital Resiliency Course: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Randomized controlled trial of online interventions for co-occurring depression and hazardous alcohol consumption: Primary outcome results.Internet interventions · 2021Article
- A Digital Health Tool to Understand and Prevent Cannabis-Impaired Driving Among Youth: A Cross-sectional Study of Responses to a Brief Intervention for Cannabis Use.JMIR formative research · 2021Article
- Understanding mechanisms of change: An unpacking study of the evidence-based common-elements treatment approach (CETA) in low and middle income countries.Behaviour research and therapy · 2020Article
- Online interventions for problem gamblers with and without co-occurring unhealthy alcohol use: Randomized controlled trial.Internet interventions · 2020Article
- An integrative review of personalized feedback interventions for pain and alcohol.Current opinion in psychology · 2019Review
- Outcomes of two randomized controlled trials, employing participants recruited through Mechanical Turk, of Internet interventions targeting unhealthy alcohol use.BMC medical research methodology · 2019Article
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- Use of web-based screening and brief intervention for unhealthy alcohol use by older adults.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2018Article
- [Internet-based alcohol interventions for college students: systematic reviewIntervenciones por Internet para reducir el consumo de alcohol de los estudiantes universitarios: revisión sistemática].Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2018Review
- Can Amazon's Mechanical Turk be used to recruit participants for internet intervention trials? A pilot study involving a randomized controlled trial of a brief online intervention for hazardous alcohol use.Internet interventions · 2017Article
- A pilot study of online feedback for adult drinkers 50 and older: Feasibility, efficacy, and preferences for intervention.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2017Article
- Behavioral Economics, Wearable Devices, and Cooperative Games: Results From a Population-Based Intervention to Increase Physical Activity.JMIR serious games · 2016Article
- An exploratory pilot study of mechanisms of action within normative feedback for adult drinkers.PeerJ · 2016Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundThere is a considerable body of evidence supporting the effectiveness of personalized feedback interventions for hazardous alcohol use-whether delivered face-to-face, by postal mail, or over the Internet (probably now the primary mode of delivery). The Check Your Drinking Screener (CYD; see www.CheckYourDrinking.net) is one such intervention.
objectivesThe current treatment dismantling study assessed which components of personalized feedback interventions were effective in motivating change in drinking. Specifically, the major objective of this project was to conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing the impact of the normative feedback and other personalized feedback components of the CYD intervention in the general population.
methodsParticipants were recruited to take part in an RCT and received either the complete CYD final report, just the normative feedback sections of the CYD, just the personalized feedback components of the CYD, or were assigned to a no-intervention control group. Participants were followed-up at 3 months to assess changes in alcohol consumption.
resultsA total of 741 hazardous drinking participants were recruited for the trial, of which 73 percent provided follow-up data. Analyses using an intent-to-treat approach found some evidence for the impact of the personalized feedback components of the CYD in reducing alcohol consumption on the variables, number of drinks in a week and AUDIT-C (p = .028 and .047 respectively; no impact on highest number of drinks on one occasion; p = .594). However, there was no significant evidence of the impact of the normative feedback components (all p > .3).
conclusionsPersonalized feedback elements alone could provide an active intervention for hazardous drinkers, particularly in situations where normative feedback information was not available. TRIALS REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01608763.
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