Abstract
Introduction
Alcohol
use is one of the leading modifiable morbidity and mortality risk factors among
young adults.
Setting/Participants
Internet
based study in a general population sample of young men with low-risk drinking,
recruited between June 2012 and February 2013.
Intervention:
Internet-based brief alcohol primary prevention intervention (IBI). The IBI
aims at preventing an increase in alcohol use: it consists of normative
feedback, feedback on consequences, calorific value alcohol, computed blood
alcohol concentration, indication that the reported alcohol use is associated
with no or limited risks for health. Intervention group participants received
the IBI. Control group (CG) participants completed only an assessment.
Main Outcome Measures
Alcohol
use (number of drinks per week), binge drinking prevalence. Analyses were
conducted in 2014–2015.
Results
Of
4365 men invited to participate, 1633 did so; 896 reported low-risk drinking
and were randomized (IBI: n = 451; CG: n = 445). At baseline, 1 and 6 months,
the mean (SD) number of drinks/week was 2.4(2.2), 2.3(2.6), 2.5(3.0) for IBI,
and 2.4(2.3), 2.8(3.7), 2.7(3.9) for CG. Binge drinking, absent at baseline,
was reported by 14.4% (IBI) and 19.0% (CG) at 1 month and by 13.3% (IBI) and
13.0% (CG) at 6 months. At 1 month, beneficial intervention effects were
observed on the number of drinks/week (p = 0.05). No significant differences
were observed at 6 months.
Conclusion
We found protective short term effects of a primary prevention
IBI.
Full article at: http://goo.gl/LBr3KO
By:
Nicolas Bertholet, Mohamed Faouzi, Jacques Gaume, Gerhard
Gmel, Jean-Bernard Daeppen
Alcohol Treatment Center,
Department of community medicine and health, Lausanne University Hospital,
Lausanne, Switzerland
John A. Cunningham
National Institute for Mental
Health Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
John A. Cunningham
Centre for Addiction and Mental
Health, Toronto, Canada
Bernard Burnand
Institute of social and
preventive medicine, Department of community medicine and health, Lausanne
University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
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