Smartphone application for unhealthy alcohol use: Pilot randomized controlled trial in the general population

Bertholet, Nicolas; Godinho, Alexandra; Cunningham, John Alastair

doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.12.002

Smartphone application for unhealthy alcohol use: Pilot randomized controlled trial in the general population

BACKGROUND There is limited evidence of the efficacy of smartphone applications to reduce unhealthy alcohol use. We tested the efficacy of providing access to a smartphone-based brief intervention for unhealthy alcohol use. METHODS We conducted a two parallel-group randomized controlled trial wit…