Mobile Health for Alcohol Use Assessment: Longitudinal Effects of Breathalyzer Self-Monitoring in Everyday Contexts

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Mobile health tracking technologies have burgeoned in recent years, offering consumers access to objective health and behavioral information on an unprecedented scale. The current study explores the longitudinal effects of blood alcohol concentration (BAC) self-assessment, facilitated by BAC tracking technologies, on intoxication levels and intoxication self-estimation accuracy in a large population of drinkers. We found that the accuracy of BAC guesses improved over the course of BAC self-monitoring for all drinkers; however, BAC levels and rates of BAC underestimation only lowered for heavy drinkers and increased among light drinkers.

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Photo by Tyler Farmer on Unsplash