Personalised normative feedback for preventing alcohol misuse in university students: Solomon three-group randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Young people tend to over-estimate peer group drinking levels. Personalised normative feedback (PNF) aims to correct this misperception by providing information about personal drinking levels and patterns compared with norms in similar aged peer groups. PNF is intended to raise motivation for behaviour change and has been highlighted for alcohol misuse prevention by the British Government Behavioural Insight Team. The objective of the trial was to assess the effectiveness of PNF with college students for the prevention of alcohol misuse.

Methodology

Solomon three-group randomised controlled trial. 1751 students, from 22 British Universities, allocated to a PNF group, a normal control group, or a delayed measurement control group to allow assessment of any measurem

SUBMITTER: Moreira MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3440433 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature