{"id":560,"date":"2010-01-01T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaydub.cms-devl.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/2010\/01\/01\/web-based-alcohol-screening-and-brief-intervention-reduces-drinking-among-college-students\/"},"modified":"2017-01-31T11:46:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T16:46:09","slug":"web-based-alcohol-screening-and-brief-intervention-reduces-drinking-among-college-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/2010\/01\/01\/web-based-alcohol-screening-and-brief-intervention-reduces-drinking-among-college-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Web-based Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention Reduces Drinking among College Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"research-summary-body\">\n                    <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name=\"contents\" --><\/p>\n<p>Web-based  interventions may have the potential to reduce unhealthy alcohol use in college  students. In this study, researchers randomized 2435 Australian undergraduates who  scored positive for hazardous drinking* to 10 minutes of Web-based assessment  and personalized feedback or to a control condition (screening only). Blinded  assessment of alcohol consumption and adverse outcomes was done at 1 and 6  months post-randomization.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Compared  with controls, students receiving the intervention reported fewer drinking days  (6 versus 7 days at 1 month; 7 versus 8 days at 6 months) and fewer drinks per  week (8 versus 10 drinks at 1 month; 9 versus 11 drinks at 6 months).                    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Compared  with controls, students receiving the intervention reported significantly less  heavy drinking\u2020 (15% versus 22% at 1 month; 19% versus 25% at 6 months). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>No  differences in heavy episodic drinking were seen between groups, nor did they  differ in number of adverse personal, social, sexual, legal, or academic  consequences at 1 and 6 months. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- InstanceEndEditable --><\/p>\n<div class=\"research-summary-footnotes-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name=\"footnotes-1\" --><\/p>\n<p><em>*<\/em>Defined as a score of \u22658 on the Alcohol Use Disorders  Identification Test.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t    \u2020Defined as  &gt;14 drinks per week in women and &gt;28 drinks per week in men.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- InstanceEndEditable -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"research-summary-comments\">Comments:<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name=\"comments\" --><\/p>\n<p>This study  suggests that a brief Web-based intervention can produce beneficial changes in  drinking for up to 6 months among college students who report hazardous  drinking. Although the effects were modest, the potential societal benefits are  large because of the capability of such interventions to reach large  populations at a reasonable cost.\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<!-- InstanceEndEditable --><br \/>\n                    <cite><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name=\"name\" -->Kevin L. Kraemer, MD, MSc<!-- InstanceEndEditable --><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/cite><\/p>\n<div class=\"research-summary-footnotes\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name=\"footnotes\" --><!-- InstanceEndEditable -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<h2>Reference:<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name=\"reference\" --><\/p>\n<p>Kypri K, Hallett J, Howat P, et al. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/19752409\">Randomized controlled trial of  proactive web-based alcohol screening and brief intervention for university  students.<\/a> <em>Arch Intern Med. <\/em>2009;169(16):1508\u20131514.<\/p>\n<p><!-- InstanceEndEditable -->\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web-based interventions may have the potential to reduce unhealthy alcohol use in college students. In this study, researchers randomized 2435 Australian undergraduates who scored positive for hazardous drinking* to 10 minutes of Web-based assessment and personalized feedback or to a control condition (screening only). Blinded assessment of alcohol consumption and adverse outcomes was done at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2725,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}