Kimberly Mallett
Pennsylvania State University, PA·Psychology
College students drink more often and more heavily than peers who are not in college, and they are more likely to develop alcohol use disorder (AUD). Heavy drinking does not fade as students advance; seniors drink more and experience more consequences than younger students.
- Fields
Psychology
Public Health & Epidemiology
- Topics
alcohol use
college drinking
binge drinking
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jun 2028
What they work on
- Assess the feasibility of adding personalized transdermal alcohol concentration (TAC) feedback, based on wearable skin sensors that track alcohol levels, to the eCHECKUP TO GO intervention for high-risk college drinkers.
- Compare risky drinking, alcohol-related consequences and alcohol use disorder symptoms six months after eCHECKUP TO GO plus TAC feedback versus eCHECKUP TO GO alone, in students from all four class years.
- Deliver motivational interviewing sessions that show students their own TAC rise rates and peak intoxication from recent drinking events, to encourage strategies that lower these measures.
More about the research
Brief online feedback that compares a student's drinking with that of peers can reduce drinking. It is unclear whether this alone prevents long-term problems, or whether adding personal biological data could make it work better.
Why it matters
Heavy drinking that persists through college can grow into chronic alcohol problems. A brief intervention that uses wearable alcohol sensor data to show students how quickly and how intensely they become intoxicated could help reduce risky drinking, harmful consequences and the risk of alcohol use disorder among high-risk college students in every class year.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Michael Arthur Russell
Pennsylvania State University, PA·Public Health & Epidemiology
Test whether TAC sensor features, namely rise rate, peak and rise duration of each day's alcohol curve, predict alcohol-related consequences on individual drinking days, compared with EMA phone self-reports, in 500 young adults.
Vivian Go
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC·Public Health & Epidemiology
Test whether the brief alcohol intervention (BAI), counseling based on Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, improves PrEP persistence and adherence in a randomized trial of 564 PrEP users with unhealthy drinking in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Laura Seewald
University of Michigan, MI·Medicine & Clinical Research·Early-career
Adapt SafERteens, a health-coach-delivered ED brief intervention using motivational interviewing and cognitive skill-building, into MiGuide for young adults aged 18–30, refining it step by step with community input.
The school
Pennsylvania State University: 60 labs on PI Pages, $1.3B a year on research, 743 research doctorates a year.
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