Social Network Feedback and Drinking Outcomes among Emerging Adult Risky Drinkers Living in Urban Communities.

Unlabelled: Alcohol use and related problems often increase during emerging adulthood and are influenced by social networks. Investigating alcohol-specific feedback from network members may be useful for understanding social influences and designing interventions to reduce risky drinking among emerging adults. This study examined whether drinking practices and consequences among emerging adult risky drinkers living in disadvantaged urban communities were influenced by receipt of encouragement, discouragement, or mixed messages about drinking from network members.

Behavioral economic indicators of risky drinking among community-dwelling emerging adults.

Behavioral economic (BE) approaches to understanding and reducing risky drinking among college students are well established, but little is known about the generalizability of prior findings to peers who currently are not traditional college students and are more difficult to reach for assessment and intervention. This cross-sectional survey investigated whether drinking practices and negative consequences were associated with greater alcohol demand, alcohol reward value, and delay discounting in this target population. Community-dwelling emerging adult drinkers aged 21 to 29 ( = 357) were recruited using Respondent-Driven Sampling adapted to a digital platform (age = 23.

Utility of digital Respondent Driven Sampling to recruit community-dwelling emerging adults for assessment of drinking and related risks.

Introduction: Emerging adulthood often entails heightened risk-taking, including risky drinking, and research is needed to guide intervention development and delivery. This study adapted Respondent Driven Sampling, a peer-driven recruitment method, to a digital platform (d-RDS) and evaluated its utility to recruit community-dwelling emerging adult (EA) risky drinkers, who are under-served and more difficult to reach for assessment and intervention than their college student peers.

Materials And Methods: Community-dwelling EA risky drinkers (N = 357) were recruited using d-RDS (M age = 23.

Effects of Intervention Characteristics on Willingness to Initiate a Weight Gain Prevention Program.

Purpose: To determine characteristics of weight gain prevention programs that facilitate engagement.

Design: Randomized factorial experiment (5 × 2).

Setting: Recruited nationally online.