Efficacy of expectancy challenge interventions to reduce college student drinking: a meta-analytic review.

ABSTRACT: Interventions challenging alcohol expectancies may lead to reductions in alcohol consumption. We conducted a meta-analysis to examine the efficacy of alcohol expectancy challenge (EC) interventions for college alcohol abuse prevention. Included were 14 studies (19 EC interventions) that measured alcohol expectancies and consumption, provided sufficient information to calculate effect sizes, and were available as of June 2010 (N=1,415; M age=20 years; 40% women; 88% White). Independent raters coded participant characteristics, design and methodological features, and intervention content, and calculated weighted mean effect sizes at first follow-up, using both fixed and random effects models. Compared with controls, EC participants reported lower positive alcohol expectancies, reduced their

SUBMITTER: Scott-Sheldon LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3381876 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature