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. 2016 Jul 18;2016(7):CD007025. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD007025.pub4

Fromme 2004 VOLUNTARY.

Methods Design: RCT
Follow‐up: 1, 6 months
Attrition: 27% at 1 month and 51% at 6 month
Participants Mean age (years): 19.26
Sex: 59% male
N participants: 452
Allocation: not reported, though n = 285 intervention and n = 118 controls were included in the analysis
Setting: university, all risk levels
Country: USA
Interventions Programme type: Lifestyle Management Class (LMC) with brief motivational interviewing components
Set‐up: 1 individual session
Key components: change in drinking, negative consequences of intoxication, driving after drinking, and motivation for making behavioural changes
Duration: 75 min
Control: assessment only
Outcomes Outcomes: typical weekly drinking; monitored weekly drinking; heavy drinking composite, DUI composite; past month negative consequences
Measures: University of Rhode Island Change Assessment; Daily Drinking Questionnaire; Positive and Negative Consequences Experienced Questionnaire; Drinking after Driving question, Past week monitorisation alcohol card; adherence and quality of the LMC co‐leaders
Funding and Declared Conflicts of Interest Research Supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. No information or declarations about potential conflicts of interest
Notes Results combined for professional and peer‐led intervention groups as there were no differences between these groups. Results reported separately for mandated and voluntary groups. Only 1 month outcomes reported and included in MA
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Insufficient information to make a judgement
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Insufficient information to make a judgement
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes High risk High attrition (27%); missing cases analyses used
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk All expected outcomes reported
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes High risk Not possible to blind participants to intervention
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Insufficient information to make a judgement
Unit of Analysis issues Low risk Not applicable