title: Randomized trial comparing computer-delivered and face-to-face personalized feedback interventions for high-risk drinking among college students.
abstract: This study evaluated the efficacy of two brief personalized feedback interventions (PFIs) using identical feedback and motivational interviewing strategies aimed at reducing alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems to two control conditions among a sample of high-risk drinking college students. Students (N = 152) were randomly assigned to a computer-delivered PFI with a video interviewer, a face-to-face PFI with a live interviewer, a comprehensive assessment condition, or a minimal assessment-only condition. At 10 weeks posttreatment, the face-to-face PFI significantly reduced weekly drinking quantity and peak and typical blood alcohol concentration compared with the comprehensive assessment and minimal assessment-only conditions (d values ranged from 0.32 to 0.61). No significant between-group differences were evidenced for the computer-delivered PFI condition, although effect sizes were comparable to other college drinking studies using computer-delivered interventions (d values ranged from 0.20 to 0.27). Results provide further support for the use of a face-to-face PFI to help reduce college students' alcohol consumption and suggest that a video interviewer in the context of a computer-delivered PFI is likely a helpful but not necessarily a complete substitute for a live interviewer.
authors.affiliation: Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma City, OK, USA. theodore_wagener@brown.edu
authors.forename: Theodore L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Wagener
authors.forename: Thad R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Leffingwell
authors.forename: Joe
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mignogna
authors.forename: Melissa R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Mignogna
authors.forename: Cameron C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Weaver
authors.forename: Nathaniel J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Cooney
authors.forename: Kasey R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Claborn
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000523:psychology; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002492:Central Nervous System Depressants / Q000097:blood; D003201:Computers; D000431:Ethanol / Q000097:blood; D030141:Feedback, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D062405:Motivational Interviewing; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D002492:Central Nervous System Depressants; D000431:Ethanol