ArticleAlcoholism, clinical and experimental research2019
Temporal Dynamics of Transdermal Alcohol Concentration Measured via New-Generation Wrist-Worn Biosensor.
Article in Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05692830 (Towards a Wearable Alcohol Biosensor), which is not on this map. Cited by 47 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Towards a Wearable Alcohol Biosensor: Examining the Accuracy of BAC Estimates From New-Generation Transdermal Technology Using Large-Scale Human Testing and Machine Learning Algorithms
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47 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 72 citations in OpenAlex.
- Validating transdermal alcohol biosensors: a meta-analysis of associations between blood/breath-based measures and transdermal alcohol sensor output.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2022Pooled it
- Accuracy of Wearable Transdermal Alcohol Sensors: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Pooled it
- Use of Wearable Transdermal Alcohol Sensors for Monitoring Alcohol Consumption After Detoxification With Contingency Management: Pilot Randomized Feasibility Trial.JMIR human factors · 2025Trial
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- Objective Assessment in Clinical Psychological Science: Progress in Wearable Alcohol Biosensors.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2026Review
- Acceptability and feasibility of a new-generation alcohol biosensor: A mixed methods evaluation in a large community sample.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2026Article
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- A wearable alcohol biosensor: Exploring the accuracy of transdermal drinking detection.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- A qualitative exploration of the experiences of transdermal alcohol sensor devices amongst alcohol service practitioners (South London, UK).Addiction research & theory · 2025Article
- A qualitative exploration of the experiences of transdermal alcohol sensor devices amongst people in receipt of treatment for alcohol use disorder.Addictive behaviors reports · 2024Article
- Interpretations and experiences of subjective effects for alcohol alone and when combined with cannabis: A mixed-methods approach.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Subjective intoxication predicts alcohol-related consequences at equivalent alcohol concentrations in young adults using ecological momentary assessment and alcohol sensors.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2024Article
- Signal processing and machine learning with transdermal alcohol concentration to predict natural environment alcohol consumption.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2024Article
- College Students' Day-to-Day Maladaptive Drinking Responses to Stress Severity and Stressor-Related Guilt and Anger.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2024Article
- Accuracy of transdermal alcohol monitoring devices in a laboratory setting.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2024Article
- Using alcohol biosensors and biomarkers to measure changes in drinking: Associations between transdermal alcohol concentration, phosphatidylethanol, and self-report in a contingency management study of persons with and without HIV.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Advancing biological investigations using portable sensors for detection of sensitive samples.Heliyon · 2023Review
- Development and validation of a model for measuring alcohol consumption from transdermal alcohol content data among college students.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe development of a transdermal alcohol biosensor could represent a tremendous advance toward curbing problematic drinking. But several factors limit the usefulness of extant transdermal technology, including relatively lengthy delays between blood alcohol concentration (BAC) and transdermal alcohol concentration (TAC), as well as the large/bulky designs of currently available transdermal sensors (e.g., ankle monitors). The current research examined the lag time between BAC and TAC using a prototype of BACtrack Skyn-a new-generation wrist-worn transdermal sensor featuring a compact design and smartphone integration.
methodsParticipants (N = 30) received either a dose of alcohol (target BAC 0.08%) or a nonalcoholic beverage in the laboratory while wearing both the AMS SCRAM ankle monitor and a Skyn prototype. Participants were monitored in the laboratory until breath alcohol concentration (BrAC) dropped below 0.025%.
resultsDevice failure rates for Skyn prototypes were relatively high (18 to 38%) compared with nonprototype SCRAM devices (2%). Among participants with usable data, both Skyn- and SCRAM-measured TAC showed strong correlations with BrAC, and both Skyn and SCRAM devices detected alcohol within 30 minutes of first alcohol administration. Skyn-measured TAC peaked over 1 hour earlier than SCRAM-measured TAC (54 versus 120 minutes after peak BrAC, respectively), and time-series models suggested that, on average across all measured portions of the BrAC curve, Skyn TAC lagged behind BrAC by 24 minutes, whereas SCRAM TAC lagged behind BrAC by 69 minutes-all differences statistically significant at p < 0.001.
conclusionsResults provide preliminary evidence for the validity of a new-generation wrist-worn transdermal sensor under controlled laboratory conditions and further suggest favorable properties of this sensor as they pertain to the latency of transdermal alcohol detection. The prototype version of Skyn employed here displayed a higher failure rate compared with SCRAM, and, in future, more reliable and robust Skyn prototypes will be required suitable to field testing across diverse environmental conditions.
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