Efficacy and outcomes of a mobile app targeting alcohol use in young people.

Abstract:

:Mobile apps provide a highly accessible way of reducing alcohol use in young people. This paper determines the 1-month efficacy and 2, 3 and 6month outcomes of the Ray's Night Out app, which aims to increase alcohol knowledge and reduce alcohol use in young people. User-experience design and agile development processes, informed by the Information-Motivation-Behavioral skills model and evidence-based motivational interviewing treatment approaches guided app development. A randomized controlled trial comparing immediate versus 1-month delayed access to the app was conducted in 197 young people (16 to 25years) who drank alcohol in the previous month. Participants were assessed at baseline, 1, 2, 3 and 6months. Alcohol knowledge, alcohol use and related harms and the severity of problematic drinking were assessed. App quality was evaluated after 1-month of app use. Participants in the immediate access group achieved a significantly greater increase in alcohol knowledge than the delayed access group at 1-month, but no differences in alcohol use or related problems were found. Both groups achieved significant reductions in the typical number of drinks on a drinking occasion over time. A reduction in maximum drinks consumed was also found at 1month. These reductions were most likely to occur in males and problem drinkers. Reductions in alcohol-related harm were also found. The app received a high mean quality (M=3.82/5, SD=0.51). The Ray app provides a youth-friendly and easily-accessible way of increasing young people's alcohol knowledge but further testing is required to determine its impact on alcohol use and related problems.

journal_name

Addict Behav

journal_title

Addictive behaviors

authors

Hides L,Quinn C,Cockshaw W,Stoyanov S,Zelenko O,Johnson D,Tjondronegoro D,Quek LH,Kavanagh DJ

doi

10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.09.020

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-02-01 00:00:00

pages

89-95

eissn

0306-4603

issn

1873-6327

pii

S0306-4603(17)30362-3

journal_volume

77

pub_type

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