Automated, tailored adaptive mobile messaging to reduce alcohol consumption in help-seeking adults: A randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To test differential outcomes between three 6-month text-messaging interventions to reduce at-risk drinking in help-seeking adults.

Design

A three-arm single-blind randomized controlled trial with 1-, 3-, 6- and 12-month follow-ups.

Setting

United States. A fully remote trial without human contact, with participants recruited primarily via social media outlets.

Participants

Seven hundred and twenty-three adults (mean = 39.9 years, standard deviation = 10.0; 62.5% female) seeking to reduce their drinking were allocated to 6 months of baseline 'tailored statically' messaging (TS; n = 240), 'tailored adaptive' messaging (TA; n = 239) or 'drink tracking' messaging (DT; n = 244).

Interventions

TS consisted of daily text messages to reduce harmful drinkin

SUBMITTER: Muench F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10872985 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature