Effects of a Web-Based Intervention in Reducing Drinking among Concerned Partners of Military Service Members and Veterans.

ABSTRACT: Military personnel and their partners report greater alcohol use and related problems compared to their civilian counterparts. We designed a web-based intervention (WBI) called Partners Connect individualized for a military spouse or partner concerned about their service member/veteran's (SMV) drinking and conducted a secondary data analysis to examine the effect of the WBI on participant drinking and their perceptions of their SMV partner's drinking. Participants were concerned partners (CPs) recruited through social media and randomized to Partners Connect or waitlist control. They completed online surveys at baseline and three months post-intervention. CPs who reported any past-month drinking were included in the current analyses (n=161; 94.4% female, 77% White, 5% Hispani

SUBMITTER: Osilla KC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9701542 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature