Do alcohol interventions affect peers who do not receive the intervention? Modeling treatment contagion effects via simulations of adolescent social networks.

Kevin A Hallgren Barbara S McCrady Katie A WitkiewitzThomas P Caudell

Published in: Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors (2021)

Individually-targeted alcohol interventions may have small effects on reducing the drinking of non-targeted adolescents, with social influence being a mechanism that drives such effects. Due to small effect sizes, many adolescents may need to receive alcohol interventions to produce measurable effects on drinking outcomes for non-targeted individuals. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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