Incorporating Social Networks and Event-Specific Information in a Personalized Feedback Intervention to Reduce Drinking Among Young Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To correct risky alcohol use among young adults, current personalized feedback interventions (PFIs) use social influence information related to distal referent groups. Although current PFIs have been effective, little consideration has been given to strategies applying more concrete sources of social influence, namely the influence of specific people within one's social network during actual drinking contexts. The current study evaluated a novel PFI, providing feedback regarding the presence or absence of particular individuals within a participant's close network along with the number of drinks consumed and consequences experienced during several specific drinking occasions.

Methods

TurkPrime users (N = 338) identified five close others with whom they sometimes drank.

SUBMITTER: Angosta J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9086775 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature