Table 3.

Comparison between the therapist-guided intervention and the self-guided digital tool for problematic alcohol use.

	Therapist-guided intervention (Sundström et al., 2020)	Self-guided digital tool (Kraepelien et al., 2023)
Number of study participants	n = 72 + 71 + 23	n = 36
Mean age in study	53	50
Gender proportion in study	51 % female	58 % female
Education level in study	36 % secondary school 57 % university 7 % other	39 % secondary school 61 % university 0 % other
Initial alcohol use disorder severity in study	0 % subthreshold 8 % mild 17 % moderate 75 % severe	8 % subthreshold 14 % mild 39 % moderate 39 % severe
Number of words	≈40,000	21,500
Duration	12 weeks	8 weeks
Content	New content and homework exercises every week with a broad CBT-focus	Focused on goal-setting and registration of drinks with new content only the first four weeks
Therapist guidance	m = 162 min/participant	0 min by design
Within-group effect on drinks per week at 3-month follow-up	d = 0.46 (95 % CI = 0.13–0.80)	g = 0.70 (95 % CI = 0.19–1.21)