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ReviewFrontiers in psychiatry2015

Very-Brief, Web-Based Interventions for Reducing Alcohol Use and Related Problems among College Students: A Review.

Robert F Leeman, Elliottnell Perez, Christine Nogueira, Kelly S DeMartini

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Review in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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18citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Robert F LeemanDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine , New Haven, CT , USA.
Elliottnell PerezDepartment of Psychology, Southern Connecticut State University , New Haven, CT , USA.
Christine NogueiraDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine , New Haven, CT , USA.
Kelly S DeMartiniDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine , New Haven, CT , USA.
Yale University · USSouthern Connecticut State University · US

Funding

Translational Technologies CoreP50AA012870 · NIAAA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Matthew J Girgenti · 2001 to 2026
$43.7M
Difficulties with Self-Control and High-Risk Alcohol Use in Young AdultsK01AA019694 · NIAAA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI LEEMAN, ROBERT F · 2010 to 2014
$705k
NIAAA NIH HHS K01 AA019694NIAAA NIH HHS P50 AA012870
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Very-brief, web-based alcohol interventions have great potential due to their convenience, ease of dissemination, and college students' stated preference for this intervention modality. To address the efficacy of these interventions, we conducted a review of the literature to identify randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Fifteen published reports were included. All RCTs meeting criteria for inclusion tested an intervention that featured personalized feedback on students' patterns of alcohol consumption. This review found some evidence to support the efficacy of very-brief, web-based interventions among college students for alcohol use reduction. Several trials, however, reported no evidence of efficacy and the methods of multiple trials raised concerns about potential bias that may have influenced study results. By contrast, this review did not yield evidence to support the efficacy of very-brief, web-based interventions for reduction of alcohol--related problems among college students. We found evidence to support the efficacy of two main types of intervention content: (a) focused solely on personalized normative feedback designed to correct misconceptions about peer alcohol consumption and (b) multi-component interventions. Future research is needed to test enhancements to very-brief, web-based interventions that feature personalized feedback on patterns of alcohol use and to determine for which types of college drinkers (e.g., heavier or lighter drinkers) these interventions are most efficacious. In addition, future studies are needed to test novel, very-brief, web-based interventions featuring approaches other than personalized feedback. In summary, this review yielded some evidence supporting very-brief, web-based interventions in reducing alcohol use but not related problems in college students. Very-brief, web-based interventions are worth pursuing given their convenience, privacy, and potential public health benefit.

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computereffectivenessinterventionmotivational interviewingpreventiontechnologyyoung adultyouth

Identifiers

PMID26441690
PMCPMC4585336
OpenAlexW1778989174

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