Efficacy of a web- and text messaging-based intervention to reduce problem drinking in young people: study protocol of a cluster-randomised controlled trial

Haug, Severin; Kowatsch, Tobias; Paz Castro, Raquel; Filler, Andreas; Schaub, Michael P

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-809

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Haug, S., Kowatsch, T., Paz Castro, R., Filler, A., & Schaub, M. P. (2014). Efficacy of a web- and text messaging-based intervention to reduce problem drinking in young people: study protocol of a cluster-randomised controlled trial. BMC Public Health, 14, 809. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-809

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Problem drinking, particularly risky single-occasion drinking is widespread among adolescents and young adults in most Western countries. Mobile phone text messaging allows a proactive and cost-effective delivery of short messages at any time and place and allows the delivery of individualised information at times when young people typically drink alcohol. The main objective of the planned study is to test the efficacy of a combined web- and text messaging-based intervention to reduce problem drinking in young people with