Reducing the standard serving size of alcoholic beverages prompts reductions in alcohol consumption.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To test whether reducing the standard serving size of alcoholic beverages would reduce voluntary alcohol consumption in a laboratory (study 1) and a real-world drinking environment (study 2). Additionally, we modelled the potential public health benefit of reducing the standard serving size of on-trade alcoholic beverages in the United Kingdom.

Design

Studies 1 and 2 were cluster-randomized experiments. In the additional study, we used the Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model to estimate the number of deaths and hospital admissions that would be averted per year in the United Kingdom if a policy that reduces alcohol serving sizes in the on-trade was introduced.

Setting

A semi-naturalistic laboratory (study 1), a bar in Liverpool, UK (study 2).

Participants

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SUBMITTER: Kersbergen I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6099514 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature