Journal article

Testing the effectiveness of alcohol health warning label formats: An online experimental study with Australian adult drinkers

E Brennan, K Dunstone, A Vittiglia, S Mancuso, S Durkin, MD Slater, J Hoek, S Pettigrew, M Wakefield

Plos One | PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE | Published : 2022

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Abstract

Health warning labels (HWLs) on alcohol containers may help reduce population-level alcohol consumption. However, few studies have examined the most effective formats for alcohol HWLs. This study tested the effects of three different types of alcohol HWLs. In an online experiment, N = 1,755 Australian adult drinkers were randomly assigned to one of five conditions: (a) No HWL control; (b) DrinkWise control (industry-developed labels currently on some containers); (c) Text-Only HWLs; (d) Text + Pictogram HWLs; or (e) Text + Photograph HWLs. In the three intervention conditions, participants were exposed to eight HWLs, each depicting a different long-term harm. Exposure occurred during an init..

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