ArticleAddictive behaviors2025
Serious harm reduction protective behavioral strategies reduce consequences associated with alcohol-induced blackouts in college students.
Article in Addictive behaviors, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Contextual Moderators of the Relationship Between Alcohol-Induced Blackouts and Alcohol-Related Consequences Among Young Adults.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2026Article
- Daily-level associations between protective behavioral strategies, transdermal alcohol concentration, and alcohol-induced blackouts among young adults.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveAlcohol-induced blackouts (AIBs) have been associated with increased alcohol-related consequences. Serious harm reduction (SHR) protective behavioral strategies may reduce consequences when students are drinking heavily. We examined whether SHR weakened the relationship between AIBs and a) total consequences and b) serious consequences (e.g., sexual assault) only.
methodsStudents were eligible if they were aged 18-22 years, in their second or third year of college, reported drinking 4 + drinks on a typical Friday or Saturday, experienced ≥ 1 AIB in the past semester, owned an iPhone, and were willing to wear a sensor for 3 days each weekend. Students (N = 79, 55.7 % female, 86.1 % White, Mage = 20.1) wore sensors and completed daily diaries over four consecutive weekends (852 total surveys; 89.9 % completion rate). Linear multilevel models were conducted to test for moderating effects of SHR.
resultsSHR weakened the association between AIBs and total consequences. At low (-1 SD) SHR, days with an AIB had an additional 1.46 consequences compared to days without an AIB, on average. At high (+1 SD) SHR, days with an AIB had an additional 0.94 consequences compared to days without an AIB, on average. SHR did not change the association between AIBs and serious consequences.
conclusionsStudents experienced approximately 50% more consequences on nights when they had an AIB and used below average numbers of SHR compared to nights when they had an AIB and used above average numbers of SHR. These findings suggest that student drinking interventions should include SHR to reduce harm associated with drinking and AIBs.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.