Marley, S, Bekker, HL orcid.org/0000-0003-1978-5795 and Bewick, BM (2016) Responding to personalised social norms feedback from a web-based alcohol reduction intervention for students: Analysis of think-aloud verbal protocols. Psychology and Health, 31 (9). pp. 1007-1024. ISSN 0887-0446
Abstract
Objectives: Web-based interventions enable organisations to deliver personalised individually tailored brief feedback to individuals without the need of a third party. Web-based interventions are effective in reducing alcohol consumption among university students. There is a paucity of evidence to indicate those who access web-based personalised feedback interventions respond in a way consistent with hypothesised active ingredients. This research uses the think-aloud technique to explore how students respond to instant web-based personalised normative feedback. Methods: Between-subjects experimental design employing qualitative methods. Twenty-one UK university students generated think-aloud transcripts while completing a web-based intervention (Unitcheck). This was followed by a semi-structured interview. One coding frame was developed to classify all utterances. Results: Narrative synthesis revealed five meta-themes: active thinking about alcohol use; comparisons with others; beliefs and knowledge about alcohol consumption; inter-relationship between personal codes and context; and engagement with Unitcheck. Conclusions: Students willingly engaged with the online assessment and personalised feedback. Students consciously engaged with the intervention and this engagement prompted students to actively consider their own behaviour, knowledge, perceptions, and to reflect on future behaviour. The ability of web-based personalised feedback interventions to effect change in individual’s behaviours is likely related to their ability to encourage cognitive engagement and active processing of the information provided.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Psychology and Health on 25 March 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2016.1161192 |
Keywords: | e-intervention, personalised feedback, student, alcohol, think-aloud, e-health |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Medicine (Leeds) > Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (Leeds) > Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number National Inst for Health Research (NIHR) 12/188/05 Cancer Research UK C22090/A7329 British Council, Netherlands PPS WS56 National Inst for Health Research (NIHR) RFPB: PB-PG-0107-12048 NHS Lothian NOT GIVEN Kidney Research Fund UK SP2/CHOICES/2010 Foundation For Informed Medical Decision Making 0171-1 Yorkshire Cancer Research 142491 Multiple Sclerosis Society Award Ref: 30 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 18 Mar 2016 16:27 |
Last Modified: | 14 Apr 2017 03:14 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2016.1161192 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/08870446.2016.1161192 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:96132 |