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A Text Message Alcohol Intervention for Young Adult Emergency Department Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial
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Study objective Opportunistic brief in-person emergency department (ED) interventions can be effective at reducing hazardous alcohol use in young adult drinkers, but require resources frequently unavailable. Mobile telephone text messaging (short message service [SMS]) could sustainably deliver behavioral support to young adult patients, but efficacy remains unknown. We report 3-month outcome data of a randomized controlled trial testing a novel SMS-delivered intervention in hazardous-drinking young adults. Methods We randomized 765 young adult ED patients who screened positive for past hazardous alcohol use to one of 3 groups: SMS assessments+feedback (SA+F) intervention who were asked to respond to drinking-related queries and received real-time feedback through SMS each Thursday and Sunday for 12 weeks (n=384), SMS assessments (SA) who were asked to respond to alcohol consumption queries each Sunday but did not receive any feedback (N=196), and a control group who did not participate in any SMS (n=185). Primary outcomes were self-reported number of binge drinking days and number of drinks per drinking day in the past 30 days, collected by Web-based timeline follow-back method and analyzed with regression models. Secondary outcomes were the proportion of participants with weekend binge episodes and most drinks consumed per drinking occasion during 12 weekends, collected by SMS. Results With Web-based data, there were decreases in the number of self-reported binge drinking days from baseline to 3 months in the SA+F group (-0.51 [95% confidence interval {CI} -0.10 to -0.95]), whereas there were increases in the SA group (0.90 [95% CI 0.23 to 1.6]) and the control group (0.41 [95% CI -0.20 to 1.0]). There were also decreases in the number of self-reported drinks per drinking day from baseline to 3 months in the SA+F group (-0.31 [95% CI -0.07 to -0.55]), whereas there were increases in the SA group (0.10 [95% CI -0.27 to 0.47]) and the control group (0.39 [95% CI 0.06 to 0.72]). With SMS data, there was a lower mean proportion of SA+F participants reporting a weekend binge during 12 weeks (30.5% [95% CI 25% to 36%) compared with the SA participants (47.7% [95% CI 40% to 56%]). There was also a lower mean drinks consumed per weekend during 12 weeks in the SA+F group (3.2 [95% CI 2.6 to 3.7]) compared to the SA group (4.8 [95% CI 4.0 to 5.6]). Conclusion A text message intervention can produce small reductions in self-reported binge drinking and the number of drinks consumed per drinking day in hazardous-drinking young adults after ED discharge.
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“In global settings, mobile health technology is widely available and promising, but the impact of this technology must be balanced by the process complexity, feasibility and equitable access [17,18].”
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- Authors
- Suffoletto, B., Kristan, J., Callaway, C., Kim, K. H., Chung, T., Monti, P. M., & Clark, D. B.
- Affiliations
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Brown University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Suffoletto, Brian
- ORCID
- Venue
- Annals of Emergency Medicine
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-12
- Volume
- 64
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 664-672.e4
- ISSN
- 0196-0644 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4254153
- OpenAlex
- W2139415566
- Cited by
- 151
- References
- 51
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 20 · 2016: 16 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 3
- FWCI
- 12.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Annals of Emergency Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (K23AA023284, K02AA018195, P01AA019072, K05AA019681, R01AA016482)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (P50-DA 05605, P50DA005605)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Keywords
- text messaging intervention, mobile health, young adults, hazardous drinking, binge drinking, emergency department, brief alcohol intervention, real-time feedback, alcohol consumption monitoring, weekend drinking
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Alcoholic Intoxication, Emergency Service, Hospital, Female, Health Promotion, Humans, Male, Young Adult, Text Messaging, Binge Drinking
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