Trial reportAddictive behaviors2016
A text message intervention for alcohol risk reduction among community college students: TMAP.
Trial report in Addictive behaviors, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 29 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Text Messaging as a Novel Alcohol Intervention for Community College Students
Nurse-led Alcohol Brief Intervention Plus Mobile Personalized Chat-based Support on Reducing Alcohol Use in University Students: a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
29 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 48 citations in OpenAlex.
- Text messaging interventions for reducing alcohol consumption among risky drinkers: systematic review and meta-analysis.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2021Pooled it
- Mobile Health Interventions for Self-Control of Unhealthy Alcohol Use: Systematic Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2019Pooled it
- Individual-, family-, and school-level interventions targeting multiple risk behaviours in young people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Personalised digital interventions for reducing hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption in community-dwelling populations.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Automated, tailored adaptive mobile messaging to reduce alcohol consumption in help-seeking adults: A randomized controlled trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2024Trial
- 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
- Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for Community College Students (BASICCS): Feasibility and preliminary efficacy of web-conferencing BASICCS and supporting automated text messages.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2021Trial
- C.A.R.E.S: A mobile health program for alcohol risk reduction in community college students.Contemporary clinical trials · 2021Trial
- Effect of a text message intervention on alcohol-related harms and behaviours: secondary outcomes of a randomised controlled trial.BMC research notes · 2019Trial
- Delivering normative feedback to heavy drinking college students via text messaging: A pilot feasibility study.Addictive behaviors · 2018Trial
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- Face-to-face, confidential and health worker-led: Understanding the preferences for behavioral health services among people with HIV in Lesotho.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- A mobile phone intervention to reduce heavy drinking: a preliminary analysis of anchoring heuristics.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- Text Messages for Depression, Anxiety and Alcohol Abuse Therapy-Are Construction Guidelines Needed?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Leveraging mHealth and Wearable Sensors to Manage Alcohol Use Disorders: A Systematic Literature Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Insight into Selecting Adolescents for Drinking Intervention Programs: a Simulation Based on Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022Article
- Identification and Description of Potentially Influential Social Network Members using the Strategic Player Approach.Substance use & misuse · 2020Article
- Daily Motives for Alcohol and Marijuana Use as Predictors of Simultaneous Use Among Young Adults.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2019Article
- Does Self-Efficacy Mediate the Relationships Between Social-Cognitive Factors and Intentions to Receive HPV Vaccination Among Young Women?Clinical nursing research · 2019Article
- A text message delivered smoking cessation intervention: Design and rationale of the Text My Quit Study.Contemporary clinical trials · 2019Article
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10 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundStudents at community colleges comprise nearly half of all U.S. college students and show higher risk of heavy drinking and related consequences compared to students at 4-year colleges, but no alcohol safety programs currently target this population.
objectiveTo examine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of an alcohol risk-reduction program delivered through text messaging designed for community college (CC) students.
methodsHeavy drinking adult CC students (N=60) were enrolled and randomly assigned to the six-week active intervention (Text Message Alcohol Program: TMAP) or a control condition of general motivational (not alcohol related) text messages. TMAP text messages consisted of alcohol facts, strategies to limit alcohol use and related risks, and motivational messages. Assessments were conducted at baseline, week 6 (end of treatment) and week 12 (follow up).
resultsMost participants (87%) completed all follow up assessments. Intervention messages received an average rating of 6.8 (SD=1.5) on a 10-point scale. At week six, TMAP participants were less likely than controls to report heavy drinking and negative alcohol consequences. The TMAP group also showed significant increases in self-efficacy to resist drinking in high risk situations between baseline and week six, with no such increase among controls. Results were maintained through the week 12 follow up.
conclusionsThe TMAP alcohol risk reduction program was feasible and highly acceptable indicated by high retention rates through the final follow up assessment and good ratings for the text message content. Reductions in multiple outcomes provide positive indications of intervention efficacy.
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