Trial reportAddictive behaviors2018
Delivering normative feedback to heavy drinking college students via text messaging: A pilot feasibility study.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Text messaging interventions for reducing alcohol consumption among risky drinkers: systematic review and meta-analysis.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2021Pooled it
- Automated, tailored adaptive mobile messaging to reduce alcohol consumption in help-seeking adults: A randomized controlled trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2024Trial
- Correcting exaggerated drinking norms with a mobile message delivery system: Selective prevention with heavy-drinking first-year college students.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2020Trial
- A text message intervention to reduce 21st birthday alcohol consumption: Evaluation of a two-group randomized controlled trial.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2018Trial
- Day-level examination of ego-network effects on college students' alcohol consumption.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2025Article
- Daily Associations Between Injunctive Drinking Norms and Alcohol Consumption.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2024Article
- Whose Approval Matters Most? Examining Discrepancies in Self- and Other- Perceptions of Drinking.Substance use & misuse · 2024Article
- Injunctive Norms and Driving Under the Influence and Riding With an Impaired Driver Among Young Adults in Washington State.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2023Article
- Daily-level associations between alcohol use cognitions and normative perceptions among adolescents: An intensive longitudinal study.Addictive behaviors · 2023Article
- Injunctive and descriptive normative feedback for college drinking prevention: Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts?Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2023Article
- 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
- Perceived Substance Use Norms Among Jailed Women with Alcohol Use Disorders.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2020Article
- Effectiveness of a culturally tailored SMS alcohol intervention for same-sex attracted women: protocol for an RCT.BMC women's health · 2019Article
- The inclusion of implementation outcomes in digital health interventions for young adults: A scoping review.Digital healthReview
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Abstract
Correcting misperceptions in drinking norms is an established method of reducing college student drinking; however, delivery of accurate norms has typically been limited to a single dose within the confines of an alcohol intervention. The present study tests the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of using text messages to promote pro-moderation descriptive and injunctive norms. Following a baseline survey, 68 heavy drinking college students were randomly assigned to receive 28 daily messages with either accurate norms information (experimental group, n=34) or fun facts (control group, n=34). Participants rated each message on a 5-point scale of interest, and at the end of the 28days completed a follow-up assessment of normative perceptions and drinking behavior. The study protocol was feasible: 87% of invited students completed the screener, 64% of eligible students completed the consent form, and 93% agreed to participate. All messages were delivered and 98% were rated. Regarding acceptability, the mean interest rating for the alcohol-related text messages was 2.84 (SD=1.30), and no participants withdrew from the study. Although between-group differences were not observed at follow-up, participants in the experimental group showed significant reductions between baseline and follow-up on peak drinks, frequency of heavy episodic drinking (HED), negative consequences, and injunctive norms (ps<0.01). Results lay the groundwork for development of a text-based prevention strategy for use in college settings.
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