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Parada, Sacha and Rubio, Bérengère and Taschini, Elsa and Laqueille, Xavier and El Youbi, Malika and Paris, Pierre and Angerville, Bernard and Dervaux, Alain and Verlhiac, Jean-François and Legrand, Eve (2024) Creating a psychosocial intervention combining growth mindset and implementation intentions (GMII) to reduce alcohol consumption: a mixed method approach. PLoS ONE, 19, (2), e0297647. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297647.

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This work aimed at creating a psychosocial intervention based on growth mindset theory and implementation intention strategies, in order to reduce alcohol consumption among users in the general population, and the clinical population of individuals with alcohol use disorder. A mixed method approach was used, combining qualitative and quantitative research methods among both populations. Four focus groups were first conducted to extract arguments in favor of a malleable view of alcohol consumption (study 1A), situations that trigger the desire to drink alcohol, as well as strategies used by people to counteract this need (study 1B). Data were analyzed using reflective thematic analysis in line with the scientific literature on alcohol consumption. The results were used to create a questionnaire scoring the relevance of each argument, situation and strategy (study 2). The 20 best scored arguments, situations and strategies were selected to create the intervention. The created intervention consisted in a popularized scientific article describing alcohol consumption as malleable, including the selected arguments and followed by two internalization exercises. Then, a volitional help sheet included the selected situations and solutions was presented, allowing forming up to three plans. The discussion focused on the added value of the created material compared to pre-existing tools in the literature, and presents plans to test the intervention in a future study.


Item Type
Article
Publication Type
International, Open Access, Article
Drug Type
Alcohol
Intervention Type
Harm reduction, Psychosocial treatment method
Date
2024
Identification #
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297647
Publisher
Public Library of Science
Volume
19
Number
2
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