SynthesisAlcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire)2022
Do Brief Alcohol Interventions Reduce Driving After Drinking Among College Students? A Two-step Meta-analysis of Individual Participant Data.
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- Guideline
- Screening for high-risk drinking and alcohol use disorder: update of the 2023 national clinical practice guideline.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2026Guideline
- Investigating for Whom Brief Substance Use Interventions Are Most Effective: An Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Pooled it
- Brief Alcohol Interventions are Effective through 6 Months: Findings from Marginalized Zero-inflated Poisson and Negative Binomial Models in a Two-step IPD Meta-analysis.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Pooled it
- A Structural Equation Modeling Approach to Meta-analytic Mediation Analysis Using Individual Participant Data: Testing Protective Behavioral Strategies as a Mediator of Brief Motivational Intervention Effects on Alcohol-Related Problems.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022Pooled it
- Do Brief Alcohol Interventions Reduce Driving After Drinking Among College Students? A Two-step Meta-analysis of Individual Participant Data.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2022Pooled it
- Preventing alcohol and cannabis-impaired driving among adolescents: Effects of a web-intervention in a driver education program.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2026Trial
- Using intervention mapping to evaluate 'High-Alert,' a brief smartphone intervention to reduce youth cannabis-impaired driving.PloS one · 2025Trial
- Using mobile technology to influence alcohol-impaired driving risk perceptions and decisions.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2024Trial
- A randomized pilot trial of a mobile phone-based brief intervention with personalized feedback and interactive text messaging to reduce driving after cannabis use and riding with a cannabis impaired driver.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2022Trial
- Receptiveness to Formal and Informal Alcohol Intervention Approaches Among Emerging Adults Without Bachelor's Degrees.Substance use & misuse · 2026Article
- Sex and age differences in alcohol-attributable mortality in Chile between 2008 and 2022.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Young adult impaired driving behaviors and perceived norms of driving under the influence of simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2024Article
- The selection of statistical models for reporting count outcomes and intervention effects in brief alcohol intervention trials: A review and recommendations.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2024Review
- 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
- Do brief motivational interventions increase motivation for change in drinking among college students? A two-step meta-analysis of individual participant data.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2023Review
- Does abstaining from alcohol in high school moderate intervention effects for college students? Implications for tiered intervention strategies.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
aimsCollege students who drink are at an increased risk of driving after drinking and alcohol-involved traffic accidents and deaths. Furthermore, the persistence of driving after drinking over time underscores a need for effective interventions to prevent future drunk driving in adulthood. The present study examined whether brief alcohol interventions (BAIs) for college students reduce driving after drinking.
methodsA two-step meta-analysis of individual participant data (IPD) was conducted using a combined sample of 6801 college students from 15 randomized controlled trials (38% male, 72% White and 58% first-year students). BAIs included individually delivered Motivational Interviewing with Personalized Feedback (MI + PF), Group Motivational Interviewing (GMI), and stand-alone Personalized Feedback (PF) interventions. Two outcome variables, driving after two+/three+ drinks and driving after four+/five+ drinks, were checked, harmonized and analyzed separately for each study and then combined for meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis.
resultsBAIs lowered the risk of driving after four+/five+ drinks (19% difference in the odds of driving after drinking favoring BAIs vs. control), but not the risk of driving after two+/three+ drinks (9% difference). Subsequent subgroup analysis indicated that the MI + PF intervention was comparatively better than PF or GMI.
conclusionsBAIs provide a harm reduction approach to college drinking. Hence, it is encouraging that BAIs reduce the risk of driving after heavy drinking among college students. However, there may be opportunities to enhance the intervention content and timing to be more relevant for driving after drinking and improve the outcome assessment and reporting to demonstrate its effect.
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