Table 1.

Electronic database search terms.

Search term topic	Search terms
Terms for alcohol use
	1. alcohol-related disorder.mp.
	2. alcohol drinking.mp.
	3. (alcohol and (use$ or abuse or misuse or dependen$ or drink$ or intoxication$ or disorder$ or consumption)).mp.
	4. exp Alcoholism/ or (alcoholi$).mp.
	5. ((hazard$ or binge or heavy or harmful or risk$) and drink$).mp.
	6. 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5
	7. limit 6 to abstracts
	8. (drinker$1 or (drink$ adj2 use$1) or ((alcohol$ or drink$) adj5 (binge$ or disorder$ or harm$ or hazard$ or heavy or high risk or intoxicat$ or misus$ or problem$))). ti.ab.
	9. 7 or 8
Terms for e-formats
	10. exp Text Messaging/ or ((text-messag$) or (SMS) or (short message service) or (text adj messag$)).mp.
	11. ((phone adj application$) or (phone adj app)).ti,ab,kw.
	12. ((social-network) or ( social network) or (social-media) or (social-media)).ti,ab,kw.
	13. skype.ti,ab,kw.
	14. exp telemedicine/
	15. facebook.ti,ab,kw.
	16. ((personal adj digital adj assistant) or pda).ti,ab,kw.
	17. (surf$ near4 internet$).ti,ab,kw.
	18. (surf$ near4 web$).ti,ab,kw.
	19. (virtual adj reality).ti,ab,kw.
	20. Second life.ti,ab,kw.
	21. User-computer interface/
	22. (consumer adj health adj informatics$).ti,ab,kw.
	23. ((e adj health) or e-health or (electronic adj health)).ti,ab,kw.
	24. (interactive adj ((health adj communicat$) or televise$ or video$ or technolog$ or multimedia)).ti,ab,kw.
	25. ((bulletin adj board$) or bulletinboard$ or messageboard$ or (message adj board$)).ti,ab,kw.
	26. (blog$ or web-log$ or weblog$ ).ti,ab,kw.
	27. ((chat adj room$) or chatroom$).ti,ab,kw.
	28. (online or on-line).ti,ab,kw.
	29. exp internet/ or ((internet adj based) or internet-based).ti,ab,kw.
	30. ((web adj based) or web-based).ti,ab,kw.
	31. ((world adj wide adj web) or (world-wide-web) or WWW or (world-wide adj web) or (worldwide adj web) or website$).ti,ab,kw.
	32. ((electronic adj mail) or email$ or email$).ti,ab,kw.
	33. (((mobile or cellular or cell or smart) adj (phone$ or telephone$)) or smartphone).ti,ab,kw.
	34. ((CD adj ROM) or cd-rom or cdrom or (compact adj dis$)).ti,ab,kw.
	35. (decision adj (tree$ or aid$)).ti,ab,kw.
	36. (Internet or (local adj area adj network)).ti,ab,kw.
	37. (computer$ or microcomputer$ or laptop).ti,ab,kw.
	38. exp Software-/
	39. exp Computer-Graphics/
	40. exp Public-Health-Informatics/
	41. exp Audiovisual-Aids/
	42. exp Decision-Support-Techniques/
	43. exp Medical Informatics/
	44. exp Computer-Systems/
	45. (or/10-44)
Brief interventions
	46. alcohol reduction.mp.
	47. brief intervention.mp.
	48. early intervention.mp.
	49. minimal intervention.mp.
	50. alcohol therapy.mp.
	51. Harm Reduction/
	52. screening.mp.
	53. (counseling or counselling).mp.
	54. controlled drinking.mp.
	55. (brief counseling or brief counselling).mp.
	56. physician based intervention.mp.
	57. general practitioner intervention.mp.
	58. Secondary Prevention/
	59. general practitioner’s advice.mp.
	60. brief physician-delivered counseling.mp.
	61. brief nurse-delivered counseling.mp.
	62. identification.mp.
	63. intervention.mp.
	64. or/46-63
Terms for randomized controlled trial
	65. exp clinical trial/ or (crossover procedure or double blind procedure or placebo$ or randomization or random sample or single blind procedure).sh.
	66. exp clinical trial/ or cross-over studies/ or double-blind method/ or random allocation/ or randomized controlled trials as topic/ or single-blind method/
	67. exp clinical trial/ or (placebo or random sampling).sh.
	68. (clinical adj2 trial$).tw.
	69. (crossover or cross over).tw.
	70. (((single$ or doubl$ or trebl$ or tripl$) adj5 blind$) or mask$ or dummy or singleblind$ or doubleblind$ or trebleblind$ or tripleblind$).tw.
	71. (placebo$ or random$).mp.
	72. (clinical trial$ or controlled clinical trial$ or random$).pt. or treatment outcome$.mp.
	73. animals/ not human$.mp.
	74. animal$/ not human$/
	75. (or/65-72) not (or/73-74)
	76. and/9,45,64,75