Trial reportAddictive behaviors2018
To drink or to drink less? Distinguishing between effects of implementation intentions on decisions to drink and how much to drink in treatment-seeking individuals with alcohol use disorder.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The effect of forming implementation intentions on alcohol consumption: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Drug and alcohol review · 2023Pooled it
- Understanding How and Why Alcohol Interventions Prevent and Reduce Problematic Alcohol Consumption among Older Adults: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Future thinking to decrease real-world drinking in alcohol use disorder: Repairing reinforcer pathology in a randomized proof-of-concept trial.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2022Trial
- Daily assessments of behavioral economic indices and drinking among rural-residing adults with at-risk drinking.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Article
- Rural- and nonrural-specific themes in personalized intervention messages for adults with at-risk alcohol use living in rural areas.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Contemporaneous Link Between Pain and Craving in Patients Recovering from Prescription Opioid Use Disorder During Residential Treatment.Substance use & misuse · 2025Article
- Evaluating a mobile app's effects on depression and anxiety in medication-treated opioid use disorder.Npj mental health research · 2024Article
- Acceptability and feasibility of a mobile behavioral economic health intervention to reduce alcohol use in adults in rural areas.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2024Article
- Applying the Just-In-Time Adaptive Intervention Framework to the Development of Gambling Interventions.Journal of gambling studies · 2024Article
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- Telehealth Treatment for Alcohol Misuse: Reviewing Telehealth Approaches to Increase Engagement and Reduce Risk of Alcohol-Related Hypertension.Current hypertension reports · 2019Review
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introductionFor many people with alcohol use disorders, alcohol drinking is a highly ingrained and automatized behavior with negative long-term health consequences. Implementation intentions, a behavioral intervention that links high-risk drinking situations with alternative, healthier responses, provide a means to intervene on habitual drinking behaviors. Here, a pilot treatment using implementation intentions was assessed with remote assessments and treatment prompts.
methodsTreatment-seeking individuals with alcohol use disorder between the ages of 18 and 65 were recruited from the community from October 2014 to November 2016. Participants (N=35) were quasi-randomly assigned to complete either active (n=18) or control (n=17) two-week implementation intention interventions. Active implementation intentions linked high-risk situations with alternative responses whereas the control condition selected situations and responses but did not link these together. Daily ecological momentary interventions of participant-tailored implementation intentions were delivered via text message. Alcohol consumption was assessed once daily with self-reported ecological momentary assessments (EMAs) of drinks consumed the previous day and thrice daily remotely submitted breathalyzer samples to assess reliability of self-reports.
resultsOn drinking days (80% of days), the active implementation intentions group reduced alcohol consumption during the intervention period compared to the control condition; however the difference between consumption was not observed at one-month follow-up. DISCUSSION: The implementation intention intervention was associated with a 1.09 drink per day decrease in alcohol consumption on drinking days compared to a decrease of 0.29 drinks per day in the control condition. Future studies may combine implementation intentions with other treatments to help individuals to reduce alcohol consumption.
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