Based on primary data of 453 drinkers in Thailand, this study investigates the impact of pre-
commitment on alcohol consumption. It exploits the quasi-experimental nature of a social …

Background Relatively little is known about how risky drinkers attempt to moderate their
drinking in the absence of specialist support. The broader literature has identified multiple …

Volitional help sheets (VHS) have been shown to be effective in changing health behavior,
but not yet alcohol consumption in a general population. The aim of the present research …

Background: The World Health Organization identified alcohol and tobacco consumption as
the risk factors with a greater attributable burden and number of deaths related to non …

Background The 21st birthday is associated with more alcohol consumption and negative
consequences than any other occasion. The current study investigated how positive …

Issues Meta‐analysis was used to estimate the effect of forming implementation intentions
(ie, if‐then plans) on weekly alcohol consumption and heavy episodic drinking (HED) …

Background: Asking individuals to form implementation intentions (ie, if-then plans) has
been shown to reduce subsequent alcohol consumption. The main objective of this study …

Objective: An intervention to reduce the average alcohol intake and the number of drinking
days in risky drinkers was conducted in a quasi-experimental study in two communities …

By Alessandro Tarozzi, Aprajit Mahajan, Joanne Yoong, and Brian Blackburn* studies have
shown that insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) are one of the most effective means of …

We tested the psychometric properties and predictive validity of a newly developed 8-item
measure of commitment to quitting smoking, conceptualized as the state of being personally …