Incorporating Values into Personalized Feedback Interventions for Young Adult Drinking: A Pilot Randomized Trial

ABSTRACT

The primary aim of the current study is to determine the incremental efficacy of adding a novel values component to a personalized feedback intervention for young adult drinking. Undergraduate students (N = 254) were randomized to receive either traditional, traditional with values assessment, or values enhanced feedback. Results showed significant decreases in drinks per week (p < .01) and alcohol-related consequences (p < .05) across all feedback conditions. Further research is needed to determine whether using values-based feedback could enhance intervention effects and how best to incorporate feedback in a way that is feasible and acceptable to recipients.

KEYWORDS:

• Alcohol
• college students
• intervention
• alcohol consequences
• personalized feedback

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Callee Falcon for helping to create feedback profiles throughout the study.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

The author(s) reported there is no funding associated with the work featured in this article.