. 2022 Mar 4;12:3579. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-07452-5

Table 1.

Measures of perceived ramifications of AUD symptoms used in Studies 1–3.

Block Name and Prompt	Items and Response Options
“Self” Block: Suppose that you begin to spend a lot of time drinking alcoholic beverages, and you notice that you sometimes end up drinking more than you intended	1. How serious of a problem would this be? (From 0 “not at all serious” to 10 “as serious as the most serious problem you can imagine”) 2. How confident are you that you could stop these behaviors on your own, without professional help or treatment? (From 0 “not at all confident” to 10 “extremely confident”; reverse-coded) 3. How urgent would it be for you to seek professional treatment for this? (From 0 “not at all urgent” to 10 “extremely urgent”)
“Family Member” Block: Suppose that a close family member of yours, who is biologically related to you, begins to spend a lot of time drinking alcoholic beverages, and this family member sometimes ends up drinking more than he or she intended	4. How serious of a problem would this be? (From 0 “not at all serious” to 10 “as serious as the most serious problem you can imagine”) 5. How confident are you that this family member could stop these behaviors on his or her own, without professional help or treatment? (From 0 “not at all confident” to 10 “extremely confident”; reverse-coded) 6. How urgent would it be for this family member to seek professional treatment for this? (From 0 “not at all urgent” to 10 “extremely urgent”)
“Upstream” Block: Suppose that you begin to spend a lot of time drinking alcoholic beverages, and you notice that you sometimes end up drinking more than you intended	Please rate your agreement with the following statement on a scale from 0 (totally disagree) to 10 (totally agree): 7. I would really need to make changes in my drinking. (From 0 “totally disagree” to 10 “totally agree”) 8. I would believe that I should be doing things to cut down or stop drinking. (From 0 “totally disagree” to 10 “totally agree”)
“Downstream” Block: Suppose that you begin to spend a lot of time drinking alcoholic beverages and you notice that you sometimes end up drinking more than you intended	Please rate your agreement with the following statement on a scale from 0 (totally disagree) to 10 (totally agree): 9. My drinking would cause a lot of harm. (From 0 “totally disagree” to 10 “totally agree”) 10. My drinking would interfere with my work AND/OR social functioning. (From 0 “totally disagree” to 10 “totally agree”)

Block Name and Prompt

Items and Response Options

“Self” Block:

Suppose that you begin to spend a lot of time drinking alcoholic beverages, and you notice that you sometimes end up drinking more than you intended

1. How serious of a problem would this be? (From 0 “not at all serious” to 10 “as serious as the most serious problem you can imagine”)

2. How confident are you that you could stop these behaviors on your own, without professional help or treatment? (From 0 “not at all confident” to 10 “extremely confident”; reverse-coded)

3. How urgent would it be for you to seek professional treatment for this? (From 0 “not at all urgent” to 10 “extremely urgent”)

“Family Member” Block:

Suppose that a close family member of yours, who is biologically related to you, begins to spend a lot of time drinking alcoholic beverages, and this family member sometimes ends up drinking more than he or she intended

4. How serious of a problem would this be? (From 0 “not at all serious” to 10 “as serious as the most serious problem you can imagine”)

5. How confident are you that this family member could stop these behaviors on his or her own, without professional help or treatment? (From 0 “not at all confident” to 10 “extremely confident”; reverse-coded)

6. How urgent would it be for this family member to seek professional treatment for this? (From 0 “not at all urgent” to 10 “extremely urgent”)

“Upstream” Block:

Suppose that you begin to spend a lot of time drinking alcoholic beverages, and you notice that you sometimes end up drinking more than you intended

Please rate your agreement with the following statement on a scale from 0 (totally disagree) to 10 (totally agree):

7. I would really need to make changes in my drinking. (From 0 “totally disagree” to 10 “totally agree”)

8. I would believe that I should be doing things to cut down or stop drinking. (From 0 “totally disagree” to 10 “totally agree”)

“Downstream” Block:

Suppose that you begin to spend a lot of time drinking alcoholic beverages and you notice that you sometimes end up drinking more than you intended

Please rate your agreement with the following statement on a scale from 0 (totally disagree) to 10 (totally agree):

9. My drinking would cause a lot of harm. (From 0 “totally disagree” to 10 “totally agree”)

10. My drinking would interfere with my work AND/OR social functioning. (From 0 “totally disagree” to 10 “totally agree”)

The order of the “self” and “family member” block pair and the “upstream” and “downstream” block pair was counterbalanced, and the order within each pair was counterbalanced. The item numbers were not presented to the participants. Supplementary Information shows the differences between the pre-test and post-test ratings for each item across the No-Education conditions of Studies 1–3.