SynthesisAddiction (Abingdon, England)2022
Validating transdermal alcohol biosensors: a meta-analysis of associations between blood/breath-based measures and transdermal alcohol sensor output.
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- Validating transdermal alcohol biosensors: a meta-analysis of associations between blood/breath-based measures and transdermal alcohol sensor output.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2022Pooled it
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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
- Using Mobile Technology to Study Episodes of Alcohol Self-Administration in Daily Life: A Narrative Review.Current addiction reports · 2026Review
- Exploring associations between drinking contexts and alcohol consumption: An analysis of photographs.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2025Article
- Drinking intention-behavior links vary by affect among heavy-drinking young adults: An ecological momentary assessment and transdermal sensor study.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2025Article
- A wearable alcohol biosensor: Exploring the accuracy of transdermal drinking detection.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- Development of an accelerometer-based wearable sensor approach for alcohol consumption detection.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2024Article
- Wearable Alcohol Monitoring Device for the Data-Driven Transcutaneous Alcohol Diffusion Model.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Novel medications for problematic alcohol use.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2024Review
- Integrating Alcohol Biosensors With Ecological Momentary Intervention (EMI) for Alcohol Use: a Synthesis of the Latest Literature and Directions for Future Research.Current addiction reports · 2024Article
- Patterns of drinking behavior around a treatment episode for alcohol use disorder: Predictions from pre-treatment measures.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2023Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsTransdermal alcohol sensors carry immense promise for the continuous assessment of drinking but are inconsistent in detecting more fine-grained indicators of alcohol consumption. Prior studies examining associations between transdermal alcohol concentration (TAC) and blood/breath alcohol concentration (BAC) have yielded highly variable correlations and lag times. The current review aimed to synthesize transdermal validation studies, aggregating results from more than three decades of research to characterize the validity of transdermal sensors for assessing alcohol consumption.
methodsDatabases were searched for studies listed prior to 1 March 2022 that examined associations between transdermal alcohol sensor output and blood and breath-based alcohol measures, resulting in 31 primarily laboratory-derived participant samples (27 precise effect sizes) including both healthy and clinical populations. Correlation coefficients and lag times were pooled using three-level random-effects meta-regression. Independent raters coded study characteristics, including the body position of transdermal sensors (ankle- versus arm/hand/wrist-worn device) and methodological bias (e.g. missing data).
resultsAnalyses revealed that, in this primarily laboratory-derived sample of studies, the average correlation between TAC and BAC was large in magnitude [r = 0.87, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.80, 0.93], and TAC lagged behind BAC by an average of 95.90 minutes (95% CI = 55.50, 136.29). Device body position significantly moderated both TAC-BAC correlation (b = 0.11, P = 0.009) and lag time (b = -69.41, P < 0.001). Lag times for ankle-worn devices were approximately double those for arm/hand/wrist-worn devices, and TAC-BAC correlations also tended to be stronger for arm/hand/wrist-worn sensors.
conclusionsThis meta-analysis indicates that transdermal alcohol sensors perform strongly in assessing blood/breath alcohol concentration under controlled conditions, with particular promise for the newer generation of wrist-worn devices.
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