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Mobile Interventions Targeting Risky Drinking Among University Students: A Review.
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40 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness of Digital Health Interventions in Promoting Physical Activity Among College Students: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Pooled it
- Text messaging interventions for reducing alcohol consumption among risky drinkers: systematic review and meta-analysis.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2021Pooled it
- Inventory and Analysis of Controlled Trials of Mobile Phone Applications Targeting Substance Use Disorders: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Mobile Apps to Reduce Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illicit Drug Use: Systematic Review of the First Decade.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Pooled it
- A Systematic Umbrella Review on the Epidemiology of Modifiable Health Influencing Factors and on Health Promoting Interventions Among University Students.Frontiers in public health · 2020Pooled it
- Feasibility and Effects of Digital Interventions to Support People in Recovery From Substance Use Disorders: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2018Pooled it
- Effectiveness of the Components of a Digital Multiple Health Behavior Intervention Among University Students (Buddy): Factorial Randomized Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Trial
- Effects of a Brief Web-Based "Social Norms"-Intervention on Alcohol, Tobacco and Cannabis Use Among German University Students: Results of a Cluster-Controlled Trial Conducted at Eight Universities.Frontiers in public health · 2021Trial
- Skills Training via Smartphone App for University Students with Excessive Alcohol Consumption: a Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2017Trial
- Alcohol and disadvantaged men: A feasibility trial of an intervention delivered by mobile phone.Drug and alcohol review · 2017Trial
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- A Novel Just-in-Time Intervention for Promoting Safer Drinking Among College Students: App Testing Across 2 Independent Pre-Post Trials.JMIR human factors · 2025Article
- Text Messaging Interventions for Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Emergency Departments: Mixed Methods Assessment of Implementation Barriers and Facilitators.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Technology-based substance use interventions for emerging adults and college students: A systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of mental health and addiction · 2024Article
- Mobile Health Interventions for Substance Use Disorders.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2024Review
- Detecting and Understanding Social Influence During Drinking Situations: Protocol for a Bluetooth-Based Sensor Feasibility and Acceptability Study.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- A Bluetooth-Based Smartphone App for Detecting Peer Proximity: Protocol for Evaluating Functionality and Validity.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- A smartphone application to reduce problematic drinking: a feasibility trial.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2024Article
- Implementing a text-messaging intervention for unhealthy alcohol use in emergency departments: protocol for implementation strategy development and a pilot cluster randomized implementation trial.Implementation science communications · 2022Article
- A mobile-based pregaming drinking prevention intervention for college students: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2022Article
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Abstract
Mobile interventions based on text messages, automated telephone programs (interactive voice response (IVR)), and smartphone apps offer a new approach targeting hazardous alcohol use in university students. This review covers seven recent studies involving college or university students that evaluated intervention efficacy in comparison to controls: four using text messages, one using IVR, and two smartphone apps. Only the study evaluating IVR reported positive results for the primary outcome. Two of the text message studies reported positive results on secondary outcomes, while the other two reported no differences in comparison to control groups. For smartphone apps, one study reported positive results on secondary outcomes, while the other showed no differences in comparison to controls for a web-based app and negative results for a native app. Further development of mobile interventions is needed for this at-risk population, both in terms of intervention content and use of robust research designs.
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