TY - JOUR
T1 - Weekend Text Messages Increase Protective Behavioral Strategies and Reduce Harm Among College Drinkers
AU - Edwards, Steven M.
AU - Tuliao, Antover P.
AU - Kennedy, Joseph L.D.
AU - McChargue, Dennis E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - The current study examined whether a brief text messaging intervention compared to an assessment only/no treatment control would differentially increase protective behavioral strategies (PBS) that were associated with reducing negative alcohol-related negative consequences during football game weekends. Eligible participants (n = 161) were college students who had at least one drinking occasion in the past 30 days. Participants completed a baseline assessment prior to the experimental weekend before being randomly assigned to receive either a text-message condition that instructed students to use PBS or an assessment only/no treatment condition. Participants in the text messaging condition received a message on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of a game weekend. Follow-up assessments were completed within 3 days following the experimental weekend. After controlling for amount of use, results suggest that for game day, those in the text-messaging condition reported significantly higher utilization of PBS and significantly lower negative alcohol-related consequences as compared with the assessment only/no treatment condition. Overall, the results highlight the importance of text messaging as an alternative intervention method that minimizes harm associated with drinking during football game weekends.
AB - The current study examined whether a brief text messaging intervention compared to an assessment only/no treatment control would differentially increase protective behavioral strategies (PBS) that were associated with reducing negative alcohol-related negative consequences during football game weekends. Eligible participants (n = 161) were college students who had at least one drinking occasion in the past 30 days. Participants completed a baseline assessment prior to the experimental weekend before being randomly assigned to receive either a text-message condition that instructed students to use PBS or an assessment only/no treatment condition. Participants in the text messaging condition received a message on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of a game weekend. Follow-up assessments were completed within 3 days following the experimental weekend. After controlling for amount of use, results suggest that for game day, those in the text-messaging condition reported significantly higher utilization of PBS and significantly lower negative alcohol-related consequences as compared with the assessment only/no treatment condition. Overall, the results highlight the importance of text messaging as an alternative intervention method that minimizes harm associated with drinking during football game weekends.
KW - Alcohol
KW - Protective behavioral strategies
KW - Text-messaging
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U2 - 10.1007/s41347-020-00149-4
DO - 10.1007/s41347-020-00149-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85108973727
SN - 2366-5963
VL - 5
SP - 395
EP - 401
JO - Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science
JF - Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science
IS - 4
ER -