Citation

Demartini KS, Fucito LM, O'Malley SS. Curr. Addict. Rep. 2015; 2(1): 47-57.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine and Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center, Connecticut Mental Health Center -SAC 202, 34 Park St., New Haven, CT 06519, USA stephanie.omalley@yale.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s40429-015-0043-1

PMID

26258001

Abstract

Efficacious alcohol interventions for college students and young adults have been developed but produce small effects of limited duration. This paper provides a review and critique of novel (e.g., a significant deviation from a traditional, brief, and motivational intervention) interventions published between 2009 and 2014 to reduce alcohol use in this population and covers intervention format/components and efficacy on alcohol outcomes. We reviewed 12 randomized controlled trials of novel, individual-level alcohol interventions that reported alcohol outcomes. Four domains of novel interventions are discussed: content (e.g., pharmaco-therapy and automatic action tendency retraining), setting (e.g., health centers and ED), modality (e.g., mobile technology), and treatment integration.

FINDINGS were mixed for intervention efficacy to reduce amount and frequency of alcohol consumption. Few studies assessed impact on alcohol-related problems. Despite the prevalence of efficacious interventions, there is still an urgent need for novel treatment approaches and delivery mechanisms for this difficult-to-treat population.

Language: en