Our Team
Dan Leightley
Laura Goodwin
Dominic Murphy
Nicola Fear
Roberto Rona
Maj PA Simms
James Shearer
Charlotte Williamson
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Drinks :Ration provides tailored support to help you cut down your drinking by learning your drinking behaviours.
Drinks :Ration automatically detects changes in your drinking behaviour and provides real time tailored support to help you cut down.
Drinks :Ration gives you control of your data, and you can request a copy, delete or change the data you give us at any time.
Drinks :Ration is a smartphone app designed to reduce alcohol misuse in the Armed Forces through the application of digital technology and behavioural change theory. This combination means that Drinks :Ration and the messages we send to you are personalised around your own goals and lifestyle. This allows us to support you to make changes you want to your drinking.
Drinks :Ration is a collaborative project between King’s Centre for Military Health Research and University of Liverpool.
We need your mobile number to allow us to send you personalised messages to help cut down your drinking. You can stop these messages at any time by replying STOP or by heading to the 'Settings' tab in the app.
You can access your data at any time by going to the ‘Settings’ tab and clicking ‘Download my data’ – within 24 hours you will be sent via SMS message a unique link to download your data. Please note that this link only stays active for 24 hours.
Only those involved in managing Drinks :Ration will have access to personally identifiable data. We will not share personally identifiable data with anyone outside the research team. However, we may publish data such as drinking diary, questionnaire scores and physical health status anonymously. You can opt-out of this data sharing at any time through the 'Settings' tab.
Please send us an email to [email protected] or contact Dr Daniel Leightley.
In 2016 the Medical Research Council funded the design, development and feasibility of an app to support Armed Forces personnel who drink at a
hazardous level. It was with this grant that
Drinks :Ration was born.
To test the validity of Drinks :Ration, we trialled it in 31 veterans of the UK Armed Forces and interviewed 29 of them to gain their feedback about the app.
After analysing all the data, we found that Drinks :Ration was a feasible way of supporting the Armed Forces in reducing the amount they drink. We published the code open source and published our qualitative and quantitative findings.
The success of Drinks :Ration attracted media attention from the Metro, Independent and The Telegraph.
With funding from the Forces in Mind Trust, and in collaboration with Combat Stress, we are conducting a Randomised Controlled Trial of Drinks :Ration with veterans who have received treatment from Combat Stress.
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