Fig. 3.

Ratio of expected number of December binge drinking occasions under early vs. late intervention for students who drank alcohol at baseline (n=357) with one-standard-error shading, by DMQ subscale scores

Note: The outcome is end-of-semester binge drinking frequency given that heavy drinkers receive their optimal bridging strategy. If the ratio of this outcome under early vs. late intervention is above 1, early leads to more binge drinking and late is better. If the ratio is below 1, early is better. To compute ratios across the range of one of the subscales, all other DMQ scores were set to their median (conformity: 6, social: 14, enhancement: 13, coping: 6).