title: The effectiveness of a cue-reminder intervention to reduce adolescents' alcohol use in social contexts.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the use of a cue-reminder to target alcohol use among youth in social contexts.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two experiments were conducted. First, among 92 late adolescents, we tested if a cue-reminder could be effectively associated with information about empowerment, awareness and monitoring of one's own limits with regard to alcohol use. Second, among 107 young adults, the effect of the cue in a real-life drinking setting was examined.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The first study showed that adolescents in the experimental condition recalled more empowerment information compared with adolescents in the control condition (mean 2.00 ± 0.92 vs mean 1.52 ± 0.96, P = 0.017), indicating the possibility of creating an association between a symbol (cue-reminder) and empowerment information with regard to alcohol use. In the second study, significant interaction effects between general drinking frequency and condition were found in relation to having an alcoholic consumption (β = -0.24; P = 0.027) and to the amount of alcoholic consumptions (β = -0.24; P = 0.035), suggesting that the presence of the cue-reminder in a drinking situation may have an inhibitory effect on alcohol consumption among frequent drinkers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The cue-reminder seems to have the potential to function as an intervention to reduce excessive alcohol use in social settings.
authors.affiliation: Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, PO Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands. m.kleinjan@pwo.ru.nl
authors.forename: Marloes
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kleinjan
authors.forename: Madelijn
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Strick
authors.forename: Lex
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lemmers
authors.forename: Rutger C M E
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Engels
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012931:Social Environment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult