A text message alcohol intervention for young adult emergency department patients: a randomized clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

Opportunistic brief in-person emergency department (ED) interventions can be effective at reducing hazardous alcohol use in young adult drinkers, but require resources frequently unavailable. Mobile telephone text messaging (short message service [SMS]) could sustainably deliver behavioral support to young adult patients, but efficacy remains unknown. We report 3-month outcome data of a randomized controlled trial testing a novel SMS-delivered intervention in hazardous-drinking young adults.

Methods

We randomized 765 young adult ED patients who screened positive for past hazardous alcohol use to one of 3 groups: SMS assessments+feedback (SA+F) intervention who were asked to respond to drinking-related queries and received real-time feedback through SMS each T

SUBMITTER: Suffoletto B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4254153 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature