TY  - JOUR
AU  - McDermott, Kevin T
AU  - Noake, Caro
AU  - Wolff, Robert
AU  - Espina, Carolina
AU  - Foucaud, Jérôme
AU  - Steindorf, Karen
AU  - Schüz, Joachim
AU  - Thorat, Mangesh A
AU  - Weijenberg, Matty
AU  - Bauld, Linda
AU  - Kleijnen, Jos
TI  - Digital interventions to moderate alcohol consumption in young people: a Cancer Prevention Europe overview of systematic reviews.
JO  - Frontiers in digital health
VL  - 5
SN  - 2673-253X
CY  - Lausanne
PB  - Frontiers Media
M1  - DKFZ-2023-01141
SP  - 1178407
PY  - 2023
AB  - Strategies to reduce alcohol consumption would contribute to substantial health benefits in the population, including reducing cancer risk. The increasing accessibility and applicability of digital technologies make these powerful tools suitable to facilitate changes in behaviour in young people which could then translate into both immediate and long-term improvements to public health.We conducted a review of systematic reviews to assess the available evidence on digital interventions aimed at reducing alcohol consumption in sub-populations of young people [school-aged children, college/university students, young adults only (over 18 years) and both adolescent and young adults (<25 years)].Searches were conducted across relevant databases including KSR Evidence, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) and Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE). Records were independently screened by title and abstract and those that met inclusion criteria were obtained for full text screening by two reviewers. Risk of bias (RoB) was assessed with the ROBIS checklist. We employed a narrative analysis.Twenty-seven systematic reviews were included that addressed relevant interventions in one or more of the sub-populations, but those reviews were mostly assessed as low quality. Definitions of 'digital intervention' greatly varied across systematic reviews. Available evidence was limited both by sub-population and type of intervention. No reviews reported cancer incidence or influence on cancer related outcomes. In school-aged children eHealth multiple health behaviour change interventions delivered through a variety of digital methods were not effective in preventing or reducing alcohol consumption with no effect on the prevalence of alcohol use [Odds Ratio (OR) = 1.13, 95
KW  - alcohol consumption (Other)
KW  - digital health, cancer (Other)
KW  - evidence assessment (Other)
KW  - evidence synthesis (Other)
KW  - public health (Other)
KW  - systematic reviews (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:37288171
C2  - pmc:PMC10243367
DO  - DOI:10.3389/fdgth.2023.1178407
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/276760
ER  -