SynthesisPsychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors2015
Project INTEGRATE: An integrative study of brief alcohol interventions for college students.
Synthesis in Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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43 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 65 citations in OpenAlex.
- A review of the 257 meta-analyses of the differences between females and males in prevalence and risk, protective factors, and treatment outcomes for mental disorder.BMC psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Brief Alcohol Interventions are Effective through 6 Months: Findings from Marginalized Zero-inflated Poisson and Negative Binomial Models in a Two-step IPD Meta-analysis.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Pooled it
- Examining replicability in addictions research: How to assess and ways forward.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2022Pooled it
- A Structural Equation Modeling Approach to Meta-analytic Mediation Analysis Using Individual Participant Data: Testing Protective Behavioral Strategies as a Mediator of Brief Motivational Intervention Effects on Alcohol-Related Problems.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022Pooled it
- Do Brief Alcohol Interventions Reduce Driving After Drinking Among College Students? A Two-step Meta-analysis of Individual Participant Data.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2022Pooled it
- A bias correction method in meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials with no adjustments for zero-inflated outcomes.Statistics in medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Brief Motivational Interventions Are Associated with Reductions in Alcohol-Induced Blackouts Among Heavy Drinking College Students.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2019Pooled it
- Brief motivational interventions for college student drinking may not be as powerful as we think: an individual participant-level data meta-analysis.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2015Pooled it
- Are there secondary effects on marijuana use from brief alcohol interventions for college students?Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2015Pooled it
- Which is Better for Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis of Zero-Inflated Count Outcomes, One-Step or Two-Step Analysis? A Simulation Study.Multivariate behavioral researchPooled it
- Intervention on the externalization of undercontrolled junior high school students: a school-based randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- A randomized pilot trial of a mobile delivered brief motivational interviewing and behavioral economic alcohol intervention for emerging adults.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2023Trial
- An Algorithm for Creating Virtual Controls Using Integrated and Harmonized Longitudinal Data.Evaluation & the health professions · 2018Trial
- Brief Motivational Interventions Are Associated With Reductions in Alcohol-Impaired Driving Among College Drinkers.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2015Trial
- A simulation study of the performance of statistical models for count outcomes with excessive zeros.Statistics in medicine · 2024Article
- The selection of statistical models for reporting count outcomes and intervention effects in brief alcohol intervention trials: A review and recommendations.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2024Review
- Harmonizing Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Constructs in Prevention Science: Digging into the Weeds of Aligning Disparate Measures.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Article
- Integrative data analysis of clinical trials network studies to examine the impact of psychosocial treatments for black people who use cocaine: Study protocol.Contemporary clinical trials · 2023Article
- Do brief motivational interventions increase motivation for change in drinking among college students? A two-step meta-analysis of individual participant data.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2023Review
- A Tutorial on Cognitive Diagnosis Modeling for Characterizing Mental Health Symptom Profiles Using Existing Item Responses.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Article
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Abstract
This article provides an overview of a study that synthesizes multiple, independently collected alcohol intervention studies for college students into a single, multisite longitudinal data set. This research embraced innovative analytic strategies (i.e., integrative data analysis or meta-analysis using individual participant-level data), with the overall goal of answering research questions that are difficult to address in individual studies such as moderation analysis, while providing a built-in replication for the reported efficacy of brief motivational interventions for college students. Data were pooled across 24 intervention studies, of which 21 included a comparison or control condition and all included one or more treatment conditions. This yielded a sample of 12,630 participants (42% men; 58% first-year or incoming students). The majority of the sample identified as White (74%), with 12% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 2% Black, and 5% other/mixed ethnic groups. Participants were assessed 2 or more times from baseline up to 12 months, with varying assessment schedules across studies. This article describes how we combined individual participant-level data from multiple studies, and discusses the steps taken to develop commensurate measures across studies via harmonization and newly developed Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms for 2-parameter logistic item response theory models and a generalized partial credit model. This innovative approach has intriguing promises, but significant barriers exist. To lower the barriers, there is a need to increase overlap in measures and timing of follow-up assessments across studies, better define treatment and control groups, and improve transparency and documentation in future single intervention studies.
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