Computer-delivered personalized feedback intervention for hazardous drinkers with elevated anxiety sensitivity: A pilot randomized controlled trial

A sex- and gender-based analysis of alcohol treatment intervention research involving youth: A methodological systematic review

“…In 54 of the studies (63.0%), sex and/or gender was used as a covariate in the analysis, and this was often done to control for the effects of sex and/or gender on their intervention [33][34][35][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][53][54][55][56][58][59][60][61]63,70,71,[75][76][77][78][80][81][82][83][84]86,89,90,93,96,[99][100][101][102][103]105,106,[109][110]…”

“…In 64 of the studies (74.4%), the authors did not discuss whether sex or gender were relevant to their hypothesis or analysis [33,[35][36][37][38][39][40][41][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][58][59][60]62,93,[95][96][97][106][107][108][109]111,[113][114][115][116]118]. Half of the 86 studies in the sample (n = 43, 50%) did not mention sex or gender in their discussion sections, neither as variables which were significant or relevant to their findings, nor as factors that they explicitly featured in their recommendations for practice or policy based on their findings [33,35,39,41,[47][48][49]…”

“…Twenty studies (23.3%) accurately used sex terminology to refer to their samples featuring either male or female participants and did not report on the gender identities of participants [39,41,43,48,51,60,68,73,76,80,85,93,[98][99][100][102][103][104]106,107]. Conversely, 3 studies (3.5%) used the terminology related to gender identity accurately to refer to their samples featuring men and women and did not report on the sexes of the participants [33,84,113].…”

Evaluation of an integrated personalized feedback intervention for hazardous drinkers with elevated anxiety sensitivity and PTSD symptoms: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial

“…Overall, the proposed pilot RCT will test the feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of an integrated intervention that specifically targets AS in the context of hazardous drinking and PTSD symptoms. The proposed intervention builds upon and extends previous integrated PFI work [ 75 ] and allows for the direct comparison of an integrated PTSD/AS/hazardous drinking PFI to a traditional hazardous drinking only PFI. Pending primary and secondary outcomes, the present study may help address pertinent gaps in PTSD-AUD intervention research and provide a brief, cost-effective, and easily disseminable motivational enhancement approach for this underserved and vulnerable population.…”

Interoceptive anxiety-related processes: Importance for understanding COVID-19 and future pandemic mental health and addictive behaviors and their comorbidity

“…In non-COVID-19 work, there is a large empirical literature on specific interoceptive anxiety-related constructs in terms of mental health and addictive behavior prevention and treatments. For example, cognitive behavioral methods have been developed and tested in brief and intensive versions via in-person or digitalized approaches for anxiety sensitivity reduction for negative mood states ( Capron, Norr, Allan, & Schmidt, 2017 ; Schmidt, Norr, Allan, Raines, & Capron, 2017 ), addictive behavior ( Zvolensky, Rosenfield, et al, 2018 ), and the co-occurrence of mental health problems and addictive behaviors ( Garey et al, 2021 ; Paulus et al, 2019 , 2021a ; Smits et al, 2021 ). These targeted interventions for interoceptive anxiety-related factors also yield clinically significant effects ( Gardenswartz & Craske, 2001 ; Schmidt et al, 2007 ).…”