Trial reportAddiction (Abingdon, England)2023
Effectiveness of text message interventions with different behavior change techniques on alcohol consumption among young adults: a five-arm randomized controlled trial.
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- Effectiveness of the Components of a Digital Multiple Health Behavior Change Intervention Among Individuals Seeking Help Online (Coach): Factorial Randomized Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Trial
- Predictors and consequences of unplanned drinking among young adults.Addictive behaviors · 2025Trial
- The effectiveness of a drink-counting and a breathalyser-coupled smartphone application for reduced heavy drinking among alcohol-dependent adults in Sweden: A randomised controlled trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Trial
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Digital Intervention to Improve the Sexual Health of Adolescent and Young Adult Male Emergency Department Patients.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2025Trial
- Individualized treatment effects of a digital alcohol intervention and their associations with participant characteristics and engagement.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2024Trial
- 'Before, we ended up in conflicts, now we can provide support'-Experiences of Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) for parents of young adults with hazardous substance use.BMC psychiatry · 2024Trial
- Automated, tailored adaptive mobile messaging to reduce alcohol consumption in help-seeking adults: A randomized controlled trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2024Trial
- Prediction Rules Identify Which Young Adults Have Higher Rates of Heavy Episodic Drinking After Exposure to 12-Week Text Message Interventions.Substance use & addiction journal · 2024Trial
- Desire to get drunk partially mediates effects of a combined text message-based alcohol intervention for young adults.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2023Trial
- Alcohol Attentional Bias Predicts Same-Day Desire to Get Drunk and Alcohol Consumption in Non-Treatment Seeking Young Adults Identified With Hazardous Alcohol Use in the Emergency Department.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2026Article
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- Investigating the Role of Situational Disruptors in Engagement with Digital Mental Health Tools.CSCW : proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work · 2025Article
- Testing the efficacy and mechanisms of an SMS intervention focused on motivating peer network support to reduce alcohol consumption in non-collegiate young adults: Protocol for a randomized trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2025Article
- Study protocol for a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial to decrease alcohol use before and after surgery.Contemporary clinical trials · 2024Article
- Trajectory classes of engagement with an alcohol text message intervention and predictors of intervention engagement.Addictive behaviors · 2023Article
- Leveraging Mobile Phone Sensors, Machine Learning, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence to Predict Imminent Same-Day Binge-drinking Events to Support Just-in-time Adaptive Interventions: Algorithm Development and Validation Study.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
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Abstract
aimsThis studys aim is to test the effectiveness of five interventions each utilizing a unique set of behavior change techniques on reducing alcohol consumption at 3 and 6 months among young adults with hazardous drinking. DESIGN, SETTING AND
participantsThis study used a five-arm parallel randomized controlled trial with 3- and 6-month follow-ups. Recruitment occurred at four emergency departments in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Participants were non-treatment-seeking young adults (mean age = 22.1 years; 68.5% female; 37.1% black) who reported hazardous drinking.
interventionsParticipants were randomized to one of five automated text message interventions for 12 weeks that interacted with participants on the 2 days per week that they typically drank: assisted self-monitoring (TRACK: control condition; n = 245), pre-drinking cognition feedback (PLAN; n = 226), alcohol consumption feedback (USE; n = 235), adaptive goal support (GOAL; n = 214) and a combination of interventions (COMBO; n = 221). MEASUREMENTS: Primary outcome was number of past month binge drinking days at 3-month post-randomization calculated from a 30-day time-line follow-back. Primary intention-to-treat analysis compared PLAN, USE, GOAL and COMBO against TRACK (control condition). The four active conditions were not compared against each other. A secondary outcome, durability of effects, was measured at 6 months.
findingsFrom baseline to 3-month follow-up (retention = 81.1%), compared with TRACK, in which past-month mean binge drinking days increased from 2.7 to 3.4, mean binge drinking days decreased in COMBO from 3.0 to 2.3 [adjusted β = -0.52; 95% confidence interval (CI) = -0.77, -0.26], GOAL from 3.0 to 2.6 (adjusted β = -0.34; 95% CI = -0.59, -0.10) and USE from 3.3 to 2.9 (adjusted β = -0.38; 95% CI = -0.62, -0.14). At 6 months (retention = 73.8%), COMBO, GOAL, USE and PLAN had significantly lower mean binge drinking days compared with TRACK.
conclusionText message interventions incorporating feedback on either drinking plans and/or alcohol consumption and/or drinking limit goal support produced small yet durable reductions in binge drinking days in non-treatment-seeking young adults with hazardous drinking.
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