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Stand-Alone Personalized Normative Feedback for College Student Drinkers: A Meta-Analytic Review, 2004 to 2014

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Dotson, Keri B., Dunn, Michael E., Bowers, Clint A.·2015·PLOS ONE

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BACKGROUND: Norms clarification has been identified as an effective component of college student drinking interventions, prompting research on norms clarification as a single-component intervention known as Personalized Normative Feedback (PNF). Previous reviews have examined PNF in combination with other components but not as a stand-alone intervention. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the degree to which computer-delivered stand-alone personalized normative feedback interventions reduce alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harms among college students and to compare gender-neutral and gender-specific PNF. DATA SOURCES: Electronic databases were searched systematically through November 2014. Reference lists were reviewed manually and forward and backward searches were conducted. SELECTION CRITERIA: Outcome studies that compared computer-delivered, stand-alone PNF intervention with an assessment only, attention-matched, or active treatment control and reported alcohol use and harms among college students. METHODS: Between-group effect sizes were calculated as the standardized mean difference in change scores between treatment and control groups divided by pooled standard deviation. Within-group effect sizes were calculated as the raw mean difference between baseline and follow-up divided by pooled within-groups standard deviation. RESULTS: Eight studies (13 interventions) with a total of 2,050 participants were included. Compared to control participants, students who received gender-neutral (dbetween = 0.291, 95% CI [0.159, 0.423]) and gender-specific PNF (dbetween = 0.284, 95% CI [0.117, 0.451]) reported greater reductions in drinking from baseline to follow-up. Students who received gender-neutral PNF reported 3.027 (95% CI [2.171, 3.882]) fewer drinks per week at first follow-up and gender-specific PNF reported 3.089 (95% CI [0.992, 5.186]) fewer drinks. Intervention effects were small for harms (dbetween = 0.157, 95% CI [0.037, 0.278]). CONCLUSIONS: Computer-delivered PNF is an effective stand-alone approach for reducing college student drinking and has a small impact on alcohol-related harms. Effects are small but clinically relevant when considered from a public health perspective. Additional research is needed to examine computer-delivered, stand-alone PNF as a population-level prevention program.

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Authors: Dotson, K. B., Dunn, M. E., & Bowers, C. A.
Affiliations: University of Central Florida (US)
ORCID: Dunn, Michael E.
Bowers, Clint A.
Venue: PLOS ONE
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Published: 2015-10-08
Volume: 10
Issue: 10
Pages: e0139518
ISSN: 1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139518
PMC: PMC4598082
OpenAlex: W2124616725
Cited by: 181
References: 54
Citations by year: 2026: 4 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 11
FWCI: 12.55
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: gold
doi.org
Licence: cc-by
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (vor)
Locations: PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research (submittedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
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Topics: Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Behavioral Health and Interventions
Social Sciences › Communication › Media Influence and Health
Keywords: personalized normative feedback, college drinking, alcohol consumption, alcohol-related harm, computer-based intervention, alcohol prevention
MeSH terms: Alcohol Drinking in College, Alcohol Drinking, Humans, Databases, Factual, Internet, Feedback, Psychological

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