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My student body: a high-risk drinking prevention web site for college students

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Chiauzzi, Emil, Green, Traci Craig, Lord, Sarah, Thum, Christina, Goldstein, Marion·2005·Journal of American College Health

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The authors investigated the efficacy of an interactive Web site, MyStudentBody.com: Alcohol (MSB:Alcohol) that offers a brief, tailored intervention to help heavy drinking college students reduce their alcohol use. They conducted a randomized, controlled clinical trial to compare the intervention with an alcohol education Web site at baseline, postintervention, and 3-month follow-up. Students were assessed on various drinking measures and their readiness to change their drinking habits. The intervention was especially effective for women and persistent binge drinkers. Compared with women who used the control Web site, women who used the intervention significantly reduced their peak and total consumption during special occasions and also reported significantly fewer negative consequences related to drinking. In addition, persistent heavy binge drinkers in the experimental group experienced a more rapid decrease in average consumption and peak consumption compared with those in the control group. The authors judged MSB:Alcohol a useful intervention for reaching important subgroups of college binge drinkers.

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  • Chiauzzi et al. (2005) found no meaningful differences at baseline between the personalized feedback and education-only groups with regard to unit quantity, frequency of heavy drinking, and maximum consumption per day.

    “No meaningful differences were found at baseline between the two groups with regard to unit quantity, frequency of heavy drinking and maximum consumption per day (see Table 3).”
  • Chiauzzi et al. (2005) found no meaningful differences between the personalized feedback and education-only interventions in reducing unit quantity, frequency of heavy drinking, or maximum consumption per day.

    “No meaningful differences were found with regard to the ability of the interventions to reduce unit quantity, frequency of heavy drinking or maximum consumption per day (see Table 3 and Figure 2).”
  • When a web-based text education website without personalized feedback was compared to a personalized interactive website, the results did not favor either intervention (Chiauzzi et al., 2005).

    “However when a web-based text education website without personalized feedback was compared to a personalized interactive website the results did not favor either intervention (Chiauzzi et al., 2005).”
  • In Chiauzzi et al. (2005), the personalized feedback group reduced unit quantity, frequency of heavy drinking, and maximum consumption per day from pre- to post-intervention.

    “Pre- to post-intervention the personalized feedback group did reduce unit quantity, frequency of heavy drinking and maximum consumption per day (see Table 3)”
  • Only one of the 10 included studies met more than 75% of the Downs and Black criteria, and only three further studies met more than 50%.

    “The Downs and Black (1998) ratings suggest that the strength of the evidence provided within the current review is weak with only one of the 10 included studies (Kypri and McAnally, 2005) meeting more than 75% of the criteria and only a further three (Chiauzzi et al., 2005; Moore et al., 2005; Kypri et al., 2004) meeting more than 50%.”

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Authors
Chiauzzi, E., Green, T. C., Lord, S., Thum, C., & Goldstein, M.
Affiliations
  • Inflexxion (United States) (US)
  • New York University (US)
Venue
Journal of American College Health
Published
2005-05-01
Volume
53
Issue
6
Pages
263-274
ISSN
  • 0164-4300 (ISSN-L)
  • 0744-8481
  • 1940-3208
OpenAlex
W2030072584
Cited by
190
References
33
Citations by year
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FWCI
9.37
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of American College Health (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Small Business Innovation Research
  • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • National Institutes of Health (5r44aa012713-03)
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R43AA014463, R44AA014463, 4R44AA12713-02)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Media Influence and Health
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pathology and Forensic Medicine › Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
Keywords
college drinking, binge drinking, alcohol prevention, online intervention, heavy drinking, women, drinking consequences, intervention efficacy
MeSH terms
Adult, Alcohol Drinking, Alcoholic Intoxication, Analysis of Variance, Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted, Female, Humans, Male, Massachusetts, Students, Temperance, Time Factors, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Single-Blind Method, Treatment Outcome, Internet

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