Feasibility of an email-based electronic screening and brief intervention (e-SBI) to college students in Sweden
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An email-based electronic screening and brief intervention (e-SBI) with personalized normative feedback on alcohol habits was offered to all 3,875 second term students at Linköping University, Sweden. The students received an email with a link to a computerized alcohol habit test and were offered personalized feedback directly on the computer screen. The students evaluated the test and were asked to state whether they were going to consider changing or actually change their alcohol habits. The response rate was 44%, with 742 female and 843 male students participating. The students displayed a strong gender difference in drinking pattern. A three-fold higher percentage of males than females were risky drinkers with regard to a high average weekly volume consumption. The gender differences were less pronounced regarding heavy episodic drinking that was reported by 51% of the females and 70.5% of the males. The email-based computerized normative feedback was appreciated by the students and one-third of the females and one-fifth of the males believed that they would benefit from the normative feedback; 8% of the females and 3% of the males believed that they would actually change their habits after the feedback. Students with a risky drinking pattern, previous experiences of blackouts, being dissatisfied with their current drinking and students that had considered to change their habits before the e-SBI, yielded a stronger motivation to change their drinking after having performed the intervention compared to students without such characteristics. The e-SBI with normative feedback was simple to administer and has the potential to be used repeatedly and on a large scale with minimum effort in terms of cost and time.
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A small but notable percentage (3%-8%) of participants reported that they felt the information would change their alcohol habits for the better.
“In addition, a small but notable percentage (3%-8%) of participants reported that they felt that the information would change their alcohol habits for the better (Bendsten et al., 2006; Westrup et al., 2003).”
From The effectiveness of web-based interventions designed to decrease alcohol consumption–a systematic review (2008) · cites this paper as Bendsten et al., 2006
At least three quarters of participants reported finding the sites easy to use.
“At least three quarters of participants also reported finding the sites easy to use (Bendsten et al., 2006; Westrup et al., 2003).”
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- Authors
- Bendtsen, P., Johansson, K., & Åkerlind, I.
- Affiliations
- Linköping University (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Bendtsen, Preben
- Venue
- Addictive Behaviors
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2006-05
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 777-787
- ISSN
- 0306-4603 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2081325275
- Cited by
- 52
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 1.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Addictive Behaviors (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Keywords
- alcohol consumption, university students, personalized normative feedback, hazardous drinking, binge drinking, gender differences in drinking, alcohol blackouts, feasibility
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Alcohol Drinking, Cross-Sectional Studies, Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted, Feasibility Studies, Female, Humans, Male, Mass Screening, Motivation, Personal Satisfaction, Students, Therapy, Computer-Assisted, Universities, Feedback, Psychological, Electronic Mail
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