Norman, Paul and Webb, Thomas and Millings, Abigail and Pechey, Laura (2019) Enhancing a brief online intervention to reduce alcohol consumption. London: Alcohol Change UK.
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Key findings
- The way in which the content of a brief online alcohol intervention was presented to users impacted on levels of engagement with the intervention.
- Users who viewed a tunnelled version of the online intervention (in which the content was presented in a pre-determined order) viewed more pages and spent more time on the website than participants who viewed a free-roam version (in which they could view the content in any order).
- Increasing and higher risk drinkers were more likely to make a plan to cut down on their drinking in the tunnelled versus free-roam version of the intervention.
- The intervention led to significant reductions in alcohol consumption at one- and six-month follow-up.
- The structure of the intervention (tunnelled versus free-roam) had no impact on the effectiveness of the intervention in reducing alcohol consumption.
- Instructing increasing and higher risk drinkers to make if-then plans linking high-risk situations with appropriate behavioural responses was no more effective in reducing alcohol consumption than instructing them to choose strategies to cut down on their drinking.
Item Type
Report
Publication Type
International, Report
Drug Type
Alcohol
Intervention Type
Treatment method, Psychosocial treatment method
Source
Date
August 2019
Pages
27 p.
Publisher
Alcohol Change UK
Place of Publication
London
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Subjects
A Substance use and dependence > Prevalence > Substance use behaviour > Alcohol consumption
B Substances > Alcohol
HJ Treatment method > Psychosocial treatment method > Individual therapy > Brief intervention
N Communication, information and education > Telehealth / Telemedicine / mHealth / eHealth
N Communication, information and education > Communication > Online communication / social media > Internet / online
N Communication, information and education > Digital technology
VA Geographic area > Europe > United Kingdom
B Substances > Alcohol
HJ Treatment method > Psychosocial treatment method > Individual therapy > Brief intervention
N Communication, information and education > Telehealth / Telemedicine / mHealth / eHealth
N Communication, information and education > Communication > Online communication / social media > Internet / online
N Communication, information and education > Digital technology
VA Geographic area > Europe > United Kingdom
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