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M. Rosenberg, C. Ludema, S. Kianersi, M. Luetke, K. Jozkowski, L. Guerra-Reyes, P. Shih, P. Finn
medRxiv, 2021
medRxiv, 2021
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Rosenberg, M., Ludema, C., Kianersi, S., Luetke, M., Jozkowski, K., Guerra-Reyes, L., … Finn, P. (2021). Wearable alcohol monitors for alcohol use data collection among college students: feasibility and acceptability in a pilot study. MedRxiv.
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Rosenberg, M., C. Ludema, S. Kianersi, M. Luetke, K. Jozkowski, L. Guerra-Reyes, P. Shih, and P. Finn. “Wearable Alcohol Monitors for Alcohol Use Data Collection among College Students: Feasibility and Acceptability in a Pilot Study.” medRxiv (2021).
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Rosenberg, M., et al. “Wearable Alcohol Monitors for Alcohol Use Data Collection among College Students: Feasibility and Acceptability in a Pilot Study.” MedRxiv, 2021.
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@article{m2021a,
title = {Wearable alcohol monitors for alcohol use data collection among college students: feasibility and acceptability in a pilot study},
year = {2021},
journal = {medRxiv},
author = {Rosenberg, M. and Ludema, C. and Kianersi, S. and Luetke, M. and Jozkowski, K. and Guerra-Reyes, L. and Shih, P. and Finn, P.}
}
Abstract
Objective: To assess the feasibility and acceptability of using BACtrack Skyn wearable alcohol monitors in a college student population.
Method: In September 2019, we enrolled n=5 Indiana University undergraduate students in a study to wear alcohol monitor wristbands continuously over a 5-day period. Concurrently, participants completed daily surveys querying details about their alcohol use in the previous 24 hours. We measured acceptability at endline with the Acceptability of Intervention Measure (AIM) scale (min=1, max=5). We measured feasibility with process measures: 1) amount of alcohol monitor data produced, and 2) correlation between drinking events identified by the alcohol monitors and drinking events reported by participants.
Result: Participants reported high acceptability of the wearable alcohol monitors with a mean AIM score of 4.3 (range: 3.3 to 5.0). Feasibility of monitor use was high: A total of 589 hours of alcohol use data was collected. All participants were able to successfully use the alcohol monitors, producing a total of 24 out of 25 possible days of alcohol monitoring data. Participants reported a total of 15 drinking events during follow-up and we detected 12 drinking events with the alcohol monitors. The self-reported drinking event start times were highly correlated with the monitor detected event start time (Spearman's rho=0.9, p<0.0001). The self-reported number of drinks during a drinking event was correlated with the area under the curve of each drinking event peak (Pearson's r=0.7, p=0.008).
Conclusion: Wearable alcohol monitors are a promising data collection tool for more objective real-time measures of alcohol use in college student populations.