Alcohol email assessment and feedback study dismantling effectiveness for university students (AMADEUS-1): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

McCambridge, Jim; Bendtsen, Preben; Bendtsen, Marcus; Nilsen, Per

doi:10.1186/1745-6215-13-49

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“…This is the first explorative study in a series of planned studies, the TOPHAT studies (Trial and Optimisation of Push based High Alcohol Treatment) that has been proposed in order to find an optimal length and content of proactive extended alcohol intervention to university students. Others and we have previously reported a modest effect of a single session alcohol intervention delivered by mail and although this effect is in parity with a short person-to-person intervention there is a need for more effective interventions [11,16,26].…”

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confidence: 59%

“…The contents of the email and single session intervention was the same as is used during routine practice at Universities around Sweden as reported previously [26], with additional information regarding the option of being able to join a research project after having received the usual 3-pages of feedback from the single session intervention. After 1 and 2 weeks, a reminder was sent to those who had not completed the single session intervention, and after 3 weeks the questionnaire was closed and no more responses were accepted.…”

Section: Population and Recruitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Feasibility of a Fully Automated Multiple Session Alcohol Intervention to University Students, Using Different Modes of Electronic Delivery—The TOPHAT 1 Study

Bendtsen¹,

Bendtsen²

2013

JSEA

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Background: In recent years more and more electronic health behaviour interventions have been developed in order to reach individuals with an unhealthy behaviour such as risky drinking. This is especially relevant in university students who are among those who most frequently are risky drinkers. This study explored the acceptability and feasibility, in an unselected group of university students, of a fully automated multiple session alcohol intervention offering different modes of delivery such as email, SMS and Android. Material and Methods: A total of 11,283 students at Linköping University in Sweden were invited to perform a single session alcohol intervention and among those accepting this (4916 students) a total of 24.7% accepted to further participate in the extended multiple intervention lasting 3 -6 weeks. The students could choose mode of delivery, total length of the intervention (between 3 -6 weeks) and number of messages per week (3, 5, or 7 per week). A follow-up questionnaire was applied after the intervention to which 82.7% responded. Results: most students wanted to receive the messages by email with the shortest intervention length (3 weeks) and as few messages as possible per week (3 messages). However, no major difference was seen regarding satisfaction with the length and frequency of the intervention despite chosen length and frequency. Most students also expressed satisfaction with the content of the messages and would recommend the intervention to a fellow student in need of reducing drinking. Discussion and Conclusion: Based upon feedback from the students, a multiple push-based intervention appears to be feasible to offer additional help for those who have interest after a single session alcohol intervention. In a forthcoming study we will further explore the optimal mode of delivery and length of intervention and number of messages per week.

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Feasibility of a Fully Automated Multiple Session Alcohol Intervention to University Students, Using Different Modes of Electronic Delivery—The TOPHAT 1 Study

Bendtsen¹,

Bendtsen²

2013

JSEA

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“…The aspiration to intervene early to prevent problems developing in the first place, or becoming worse, is enduringly appealing for many reasons, particularly as young people are targeted more widely as awareness grows of the need to do so . Brief interventions delivered by computers and the internet, for whom university students are prominent in the emerging literature , is another area which has seen major upsurges in research activity. Internet interventions herald new possibilities for developing the content of brief interventions and potentially pose something of an identity crisis for brief interventions.…”

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The early history of ideas on brief interventions for alcohol

McCambridge

Cunningham

2014

Addiction

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AimsThis study explores the early development of brief interventions for alcohol using a history of ideas approach with a particular focus on intervention content.MethodsThe source publications of the key primary studies published from approximately 1962 to 1992 were examined, followed by a brief review of the earliest reviews in this field. These studies were placed in the context of developments in alcohol research and in public health.ResultsAfter early pioneering work on brief interventions, further advances were not made until thinking about alcohol problems and their treatment, most notably on controlled drinking, along with wider changes in public health, created new conditions for progress. There was then a golden era of rapid advance in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when preventing the development of problem drinking became important for public health reasons, in addition to helping already problematic drinkers. Many research challenges identified at that time remain to be met. The content of brief interventions changed over the period of study, although not in ways well informed by research advances, and there were also obvious continuities, with a renewed emphasis on the facilitation of self-change being one important consequence of the development of internet applications.ConclusionsIdeas about brief interventions have changed in important ways. Brief interventions have been studied with different populations of drinkers, with aims embracing both individual and population-level perspectives, and without well-specified contents. The brief intervention field is an appropriate target for further historical investigations, which may help thinking about addressing alcohol and other problems.

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“…Previous studies have shown that a variety of automated Internet-based interventions have small, albeit significant, effects on a student’s drinking short term [16, 17, 19–22]. Thus, there is a need to further develop and evaluate new ways of reaching the large number of students who drink excessively.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The research builds on previous work from the AMADEUS research programme [10, 16, 17] (Thomas et al, in press).…”

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Short message service (SMS)-based intervention targeting alcohol consumption among university students: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial

Thomas

Bendtsen

Linderoth

et al. 2017

Trials

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BackgroundDespite significant health risks, heavy drinking of alcohol among university students is a widespread problem; excessive drinking is part of the social norm. A growing number of studies indicate that short message service (SMS)-based interventions are cost-effective, accessible, require limited effort by users, and can enable continuous, real-time, brief support in real-world settings. Although there is emerging evidence for the effect of SMS-based interventions in reducing alcohol consumption, more research is needed. This study aims to test the effectiveness of a newly developed SMS-based intervention targeting excessive alcohol consumption among university and college students in Sweden.MethodsThe study is a two-arm randomized controlled trial with an intervention (SMS programme) and a control (treatment as usual) group. Outcome measures will be investigated at baseline and at 3-month follow up. The primary outcome is total weekly alcohol consumption. Secondary outcomes are frequency of heavy episodic drinking, highest estimated blood alcohol concentration and number of negative consequences due to excessive drinking.DiscussionThis study contributes knowledge on the effect of automatized SMS support to reduce excessive drinking among students compared with existing support such as Student Health Centres.Trial registrationISRCTN.com, ISRCTN95054707. Registered on 31 August 2016.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13063-017-1898-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Alcohol email assessment and feedback study dismantling effectiveness for university students (AMADEUS-1): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Cited by 20 publications

References 56 publications

Feasibility of a Fully Automated Multiple Session Alcohol Intervention to University Students, Using Different Modes of Electronic Delivery—The TOPHAT 1 Study

Feasibility of a Fully Automated Multiple Session Alcohol Intervention to University Students, Using Different Modes of Electronic Delivery—The TOPHAT 1 Study

The early history of ideas on brief interventions for alcohol

Short message service (SMS)-based intervention targeting alcohol consumption among university students: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial

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