An Interactive Narrative Intervention to Increase Adolescents’ Knowledge and Self-Efficacy to Reduce Alcohol Use: Pre-Post Study

Carlos Penilla   ^{1 *} , MS, DrPH ;   Mark S Berna   ^{1 *} , BA, BS ;   Marianne Pugatch   ^{2, 3 *} , PhD ;   Vikram Kumaran   ^{4 *} , PhD ;   Sean Hennigan   ^{1 *} , BS, MA ;   Kathleen P Tebb   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Sara Buckelew   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Anoushka Sinha   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Jonathan P Rowe   ^{5 *} , PhD ;   Alison Giovanelli   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   James C Lester   ^{4 *} , PhD ;   Courtney Barron   ^{4 *} , MA ;   Leslie Einhorn   ^{6 *} , BA ;   Elizabeth M Ozer   ^{1, 7 *} , PhD

¹ Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

² Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Northwestern University Feinburg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States

³ Potocsnak Family Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, IL, United States

⁴ Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States

⁵ Applied Research Associates, Raleigh, NC, United States

⁶ Children’s After School Arts, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁷ Office of Opportunity and Outreach, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States

*all authors contributed equally