A Need for Strategies to Reduce Alcohol Use After Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: Technology-Based Intervention and Study Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Individuals who undergo metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) are at an increased risk of developing a postoperative alcohol use disorder. Therefore, preventive strategies are needed to mitigate this risk. A technology-based intervention has reduced alcohol use among other populations and could be used after MBS.

Objective

This study aims to describe a technology-based intervention to reduce alcohol use after MBS and to report the study protocol.

Methods

The intervention consists of 2 computerized brief intervention sessions followed by 3 months of daily, tailored, personalized SMS text messages in which the intervention content adapts to an individual's readiness to change. The intervention will be tested in a pilot randomized controlled trial with assessm

SUBMITTER: Miller-Matero LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12824574 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature