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Using personalized feedback to reduce alcohol use among hazardous drinking college students : the moderating effect of alcohol-related negative consequences . UNLABELLED Web-based screening and brief interventions that include personalized feedback about their alcohol use have proven to be particularly promising for reducing hazardous drinking among university students . Despite the increasing use of these approaches , there is still relatively little known about how the content of these interventions may influence outcomes and who may benefit most from these approaches . The current study sought to address these issues by examining how individual differences in alcohol consequences influence outcomes of a laboratory-based computerized intervention . METHODS One-hundred and nineteen introductory psychology students who either had two episodes of heavy episodic drinking in the past month or scored ≥8 on the AUDIT participated in this randomized controlled trial for course credit . Participants were assigned to 1 of 4 conditions in this 2 Intervention ( Alcohol Feedback vs. Control ) ×2 Assessment ( Motivational Assessment vs. No Motivational Assessment ) between-subjects design . Quantity of alcohol consumed per week and heavy episodic drinking one month later were the primary dependent variables . RESULTS Controlling for corresponding baseline alcohol measures , hierarchical linear regression analyses showed a significant interaction between intervention condition and baseline alcohol-related consequences . For those who reported more alcohol consequences at baseline , the alcohol intervention resulted in significantly less alcohol use and fewer heavy drinking episodes at follow-up , while no difference was observed between intervention conditions for those with few baseline consequences . Assessment did not moderate intervention effects . DISCUSSION These findings suggest that a feedback-based computerized intervention that includes normative information about alcohol use and consequences may be more effective for hazardous drinking students who are experiencing higher levels of alcohol-related consequences .
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Intervention_Educational
personalized feedback
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Intervention_Educational
Web-based screening
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Intervention_Educational
brief interventions
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Intervention_Educational
laboratory-based computerized intervention .
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Outcome_Mental
Quantity of alcohol consumed per week
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Outcome_Mental
heavy episodic drinking one month later
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Outcome_Mental
less alcohol use
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Outcome_Mental
fewer heavy drinking episodes
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Participant_Condition
hazardous drinking
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Participant_Age
college students
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Participant_Sample-size
One-hundred and nineteen