Internet-Based Brief Intervention to Prevent Unhealthy Alcohol Use among Young Men: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Alcohol use is one of the leading modifiable morbidity and mortality risk factors among young adults.

Study design

2 parallel-group randomized controlled trial with follow-up at 1 and 6 months.

Setting/participants

Internet based study in a general population sample of young men with low-risk drinking, recruited between June 2012 and February 2013. Intervention: Internet-based brief alcohol primary prevention intervention (IBI). The IBI aims at preventing an increase in alcohol use: it consists of normative feedback, feedback on consequences, calorific value alcohol, computed blood alcohol concentration, indication that the reported alcohol use is associated with no or limited risks for health. Intervention group participants received the IBI. Control gro

SUBMITTER: Bertholet N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4671673 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature