Trial reportJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2018
Using e-mail boosters to maintain change after brief alcohol interventions for mandated college students: A randomized controlled trial.
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- Does self-affirmation augment the effects of a mandated personalized feedback intervention? A randomized controlled trial with heavy drinking college students.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2024Trial
- Descriptive Norms but not Harm Reduction Strategies as a Mediator of Personalized Boosters After a Computerized College Drinking Intervention.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2020Trial
- Alcohol-Induced Blackouts and Subsequent Drinking Trajectories: Evidence From Three Longitudinal Samples.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2026Article
- Capturing meaningful change: Initiation and maintenance of reductions in World Health Organization risk drinking levels among mandated college students.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2026Article
- World Health Organization Risk Drinking Levels Among Mandated College Students: Associations With Alcohol Use, Mental Health, and Academic Performance.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2024Article
- 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
- Examining Attitude, Norms, and Intentions as Predictors of Prospective Change in Alcohol-Induced Blackouts.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2023Article
- Examining Emailed Feedback as Boosters After a College Drinking Intervention Among Fraternities and Sororities: Rationale and Protocol for a Remote Controlled Trial (Project Greek).JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Sensitivity analyses for data missing at random versus missing not at random using latent growth modelling: a practical guide for randomised controlled trials.BMC medical research methodology · 2022Article
- Thirty years of BASICS: Dissemination and implementation progress and challenges.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2022Article
- Opportunities for reducing college drinking: The roles of drinking attitudes and blackout experience.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2021Article
- Temporal precedence of self-regulation over depression and alcohol problems: Support for a model of self-regulatory failure.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2019Article
- Self-Efficacy to Limit Drinking Mediates the Association between Attitudes and Alcohol-Related Outcomes.Substance use & misuse · 2019Article
- Impulsive personality traits and alcohol use: Does sleeping help with thinking?Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2017Article
- Adequate sleep moderates the prospective association between alcohol use and consequences.Addictive behaviors · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectiveBrief motivational interventions (BMIs) reduce drinking in the short term, but these initial effects often decay. We tested the hypothesis that theory-based e-mail boosters would promote maintenance of change after a BMI.
methodParticipants were students (N = 568; 72% male) who violated campus alcohol policy and were mandated to participate in an alcohol-risk-reduction program. Participants provided baseline data, received a BMI, and then completed a 1-month post-BMI survey. Next, they were randomized to receive 12 booster e-mails that contained either (a) alcohol norms or (b) structurally equivalent general health information (control). Alcohol consumption and alcohol-related consequences were assessed at baseline, 1, 3, 5, 8, and 12 months.
resultsAs expected, we observed significant reductions in both consumption and consequences after the BMI (ps < .01), and groups were equivalent at baseline and at 1-month post-BMI, prior to randomization (ps > .05). Latent growth curve models revealed no condition effects on changes in the latent consumption variable from 1- to 12-month follow-ups (b = .01, SE = .01, p > .05). Unexpectedly, a main effect of the condition emerged for self-reported consequences (b = .03, SE = .01, p = .01); we observed more consequences after boosters containing alcohol norms than general health information. Outcomes were not moderated by sex, consumption at baseline or 1 month, or e-mail exposure, and there was no mediation by descriptive norms, injunctive norms, or peer communication.
conclusionsContrary to predictions, e-mail boosters with corrective norms content did not improve outcomes after a BMI. (PsycINFO Database Record
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