title: Mobile Interventions Targeting Risky Drinking Among University Students: A Review.
abstract: Mobile interventions based on text messages, automated telephone programs (interactive voice response (IVR)), and smartphone apps offer a new approach targeting hazardous alcohol use in university students. This review covers seven recent studies involving college or university students that evaluated intervention efficacy in comparison to controls: four using text messages, one using IVR, and two smartphone apps. Only the study evaluating IVR reported positive results for the primary outcome. Two of the text message studies reported positive results on secondary outcomes, while the other two reported no differences in comparison to control groups. For smartphone apps, one study reported positive results on secondary outcomes, while the other showed no differences in comparison to controls for a web-based app and negative results for a native app. Further development of mobile interventions is needed for this at-risk population, both in terms of intervention content and use of robust research designs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Center for Psychiatric Research, Karolinska Institutet, Norra Stationsgatan 69, 7th floor, SE-113 64 Stockholm, Sweden ; Stockholm Center for Dependency Disorders, Box 179 14, SE-118 95 Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Anne H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Berman
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Center for Psychiatric Research, Karolinska Institutet, Norra Stationsgatan 69, 7th floor, SE-113 64 Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Mikael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gajecki
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Center for Psychiatric Research, Karolinska Institutet, Norra Stationsgatan 69, 7th floor, SE-113 64 Stockholm, Sweden ; Stockholm Center for Dependency Disorders, Box 179 14, SE-118 95 Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Kristina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sinadinovic
authors.affiliation: Department of Health and Society, Malmö University, SE-20506 Malmö, Sweden.
authors.forename: Claes
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Andersson
keywords: Alcohol; Automated telephony; Hazardous drinking; Intervention; Review; Smartphone apps; Text messages; University/college students