Smartphone-based secondary prevention intervention for university students with unhealthy alcohol use

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Thème du jour: Smartphone-based secondary prevention intervention for university students with unhealthy alcohol use: a randomized controlled trial

Unhealthy alcohol use is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, including among university students. Internet-based screening and brief intervention is considered an effective method for reducing unhealthy alcohol use, but current evidence for smartphone-based interventions efficacy is inconclusive. Smartphone applications may be readily adopted, especially among young individuals, allow for multiple-contact and proactive or ‘just in time’ interventions and linkage possible to additional services. Smartphone-based interventions targeting unhealthy alcohol use also have the potential to reach large parts of the student population. Thus, our research group co-developed with students a smartphone-based intervention for mitigating unhealthy alcohol use. We conducted a randomized controlled trial to test the efficacy of providing access to a smartphone-based intervention (smartphone app) for mitigating unhealthy alcohol use. Participants were followed-up at 3, 6, and 12 months. In this talk, I will briefly present the development of the intervention app and the main results of the randomized trial.

Intervenant:

• Prof Nicolas Bertholet, Associate Professor, Facility of biology and medicine, University of Lausanne - CH

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