Study: NCT02927132

Intervention type: BEHAVIORAL
Group type: EXPERIMENTAL
Intervention: Expressive Writing
Description: Expressive writing is a brief intervention that has been linked to various health and social benefits. Expressing emotions through writing can lead to decreased levels of stress and negative affect, thereby serving as a coping mechanism. Furthermore, expressive writing allows participants to reconstruct their traumatic experiences and reorganize their memory of these events into a narrative. Expressive writing has been used to target drinking. Research has found that students have reduced drinking intentions after writing about a negative drinking event compared to control,suggesting that a narrative intervention may be effective in reducing drinking. Other research suggests that feelings of guilt were more strongly associated with intentions to reduce drinking after writing about a negative drinking event, and that this event-related guilt mediated intervention effects.

Intervention type: BEHAVIORAL
Group type: EXPERIMENTAL
Intervention: Expressive Writing
Description: Expressive writing is a brief intervention that has been linked to various health and social benefits. Expressing emotions through writing can lead to decreased levels of stress and negative affect, thereby serving as a coping mechanism. Furthermore, expressive writing allows participants to reconstruct their traumatic experiences and reorganize their memory of these events into a narrative. Expressive writing has been used to target drinking. Research has found that students have reduced drinking intentions after writing about a negative drinking event compared to control,suggesting that a narrative intervention may be effective in reducing drinking. Other research suggests that feelings of guilt were more strongly associated with intentions to reduce drinking after writing about a negative drinking event, and that this event-related guilt mediated intervention effects.

Intervention type: BEHAVIORAL
Group type: EXPERIMENTAL
Intervention: Expressive Writing
Description: Expressive writing is a brief intervention that has been linked to various health and social benefits. Expressing emotions through writing can lead to decreased levels of stress and negative affect, thereby serving as a coping mechanism. Furthermore, expressive writing allows participants to reconstruct their traumatic experiences and reorganize their memory of these events into a narrative. Expressive writing has been used to target drinking. Research has found that students have reduced drinking intentions after writing about a negative drinking event compared to control,suggesting that a narrative intervention may be effective in reducing drinking. Other research suggests that feelings of guilt were more strongly associated with intentions to reduce drinking after writing about a negative drinking event, and that this event-related guilt mediated intervention effects.

Intervention type: BEHAVIORAL
Group type: EXPERIMENTAL
Intervention: Personalized Normative Feedback
Description: PNF approaches use information designed to correct normative misperceptions to reduce heavy drinking. Three pieces of information are necessary when providing personalized normative feedback: information about a student's own drinking, information about the student's perceptions of others' drinking, and information about others' actual drinking. The presentation of this information is designed to change students' perceptions of normal drinking by exposing their misperceptions of the norm as well as by comparing their behavior with normal behavior.