Efficacy of a web-based intervention with and without guidance for employees with risky drinking: results of a three-arm randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To test the efficacy of a web-based alcohol intervention with and without guidance.

Design

Three parallel groups with primary end-point after 6 weeks.

Setting

Open recruitment in the German working population.

Participants

Adults (178 males/256 females, mean age 47 years) consuming at least 21/14 weekly standard units of alcohol (SUA) and scoring ≥ 8/6 on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test.

Intervention

Five web-based modules including personalized normative feedback, motivational interviewing, goal setting, problem-solving and emotion regulation during 5 weeks. One intervention group received an unguided self-help version (n=146) and the second received additional adherence-focused guidance by eCoaches (n=144). Controls were on a waiting

SUBMITTER: Boß L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5887885 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature