All Items 1 Collection 1 The Octagon 1 Contributor 7 Bowe, Steven (Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology) 1 Cunningham, John A. (Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University) 1 Horton, Nicholas J. (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Amherst College) 1 Kypri, Kypros (School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle) 1 McCambridge, Jim (Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine) 1 Saunders, John B., 1949- (Disciplines of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, University of Sydney) 1 Vater, Tina (Injury Prevention Research Unit, University of Otago) 1 show more 2 show fewer Topic 3 Alcoholism--Treatment 1 Biometry 1 Youth--Alcohol use--Research 1 Part Of 1 The Amherst College Octagon 1 Genre 1 Articles 1 Subject 3 Alcoholism--Treatment 1 Biometry 1 Youth--Alcohol use--Research 1 Web-based alcohol screening and brief intervention for university students: A randomized trial Horton, Nicholas J. (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Amherst College) Importance--Unhealthy alcohol use is a leading contributor to the global burden of disease, particularly among young people. Systematic reviews suggest efficacy of web-based alcohol screening and brief intervention and call for effectiveness trials in settings where it could be sustainably delivered. Objective--To evaluate a national web-based alcohol screening and brief intervention program. Main Outcomes and Measures--A fully automated 5-month follow-up assessment was conducted that measured 6 primary outcomes: consumption per typical occasion, drinking frequency, volume of alcohol consumed, an academic problems score, and whether participants exceeded medical guidelines for acute harm (binge drinking) and chronic harm (heavy drinking). A Bonferroni-corrected significance threshold of .0083 was used to account for the 6 comparisons and a sensitivity analysis was used to assess possible attrition bias. Conclusions and Relevance--A national web-based alcohol screening and brief intervention program produced no significant reductions in the frequency or overall volume of drinking or academic problems. There remains a possibility of a small reduction in the amount of alcohol consumed per typical drinking occasion. Web-based alcohol screening and brief intervention for university students: A randomized trial
