Booze-check website for students to be extended

Health researchers at Leeds University have developed a website that encourages students to keep track of their drinking. The system seems to help reduce individual drinking levels and now is being rolled out to other universities

Unitcheck encourages young people to check how many units they are consuming, how this affects their health, and how their drinking compares with that of their peers. A pilot scheme funded by the European Research Advisory Board found people who used the site drank approximately one unit less on each occasion they drank, and that lower levels of alcohol consumption persisted over three months.

The site is now being funded by the Alcohol Education and Research Council and is being rolled out to four other universities. Leeds Primary Care Trust and the Institute of Health Sciences are also looking at how it could be modified and promoted to other groups.

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