Reduktion des Alkoholkonsums und Förderung der Rauchabstinenz bei Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen mittels Internet und Mobiltelefon: ein Literaturüberblick

Abstract

Zusammenfassung Ziel derstudies that aimed at decreasing alcohol consumption by the use of the Internet were conducted in college or university students from the United States or New Zealand and the majority of these studies were based on the social norms approach. Good empirical evidence exists concerning the efficacy of web-based social norms interventions to decrease alcohol consumption in students. In the field of smoking cessation, Internet interventions are much more heterogeneous concerning the target group and the provided interventions. So far, five controlled studies concerning Internet interventions for smoking cessation in adolescents are available, two of these studies were effective in decreasing the smoking prevalence at the last follow-up. Interventions using mobile phone text messaging for smoking cessation were well accepted and promising; however, they were primarily tested within pilot studies and conclusions about their efficacy are not possible so far. Conclusion: Suggestions for the implementation of certain intervention approaches in Germany could not be derived from the existing studies. For research in Germany, it is suggested to work on the following topics: (1) testing the efficacy of web-based social norms interventions to decrease alcohol consumption in student and non-student samples, (2) testing the efficacy of Internet interventions for smoking cessation, and (3) testing the efficacy of text messaging interventions for smoking cessation.

Interventions for Adolescent Substance Abuse: An Overview of Systematic Reviews

“…We report findings from four reviews evaluating digital platforms for substance abuse among adolescents [67] , [68] , [69] , [70] . A review evaluating the impact of Internet-based programs and intervention delivered via CD-ROM targeting alcohol, cannabis, and tobacco suggests that these programs have the potential to reduce alcohol and other drug use as well as intentions to use substances in the future [67] .…”

“…Web-based interventions for problematic substance use by adolescents and young adults highlighted insufficient data to assess the effectiveness of Web-based interventions for tobacco use by adolescents [68] . For Internet and mobile phone use, one review suggested good empirical evidence concerning the efficacy of Web-based social norms interventions to decrease alcohol consumption in students [69] . Internet interventions for smoking prevention are found to be heterogeneous.…”

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

“…The web-based part of the intervention provides normative feedback based on the social norms approach [12], which constitutes the theoretical background of the majority of evidence based internet interventions to reduce problem drinking in young people [15, 28]. …”

Efficacy of an internet and SMS-based integrated smoking cessation and alcohol intervention for smoking cessation in young people: study protocol of a two-arm cluster randomised controlled trial

“…The alcohol intervention provides normative feedback based on the social norms approach [21], which constitutes the theoretical background of the majority of evidence-based internet interventions to reduce problem drinking in young people [23, 24]. …”