Claire Garnett

About Me

My research interests include: development and evaluation of digital interventions; behaviour change; alcohol consumption as a behaviour change target; quantitative research.

My research focuses on the development and evaluation of a theory-based smartphone application to reduce excessive alcohol consumption (drinklessalcohol.com). This is being done through analysis of drinking behaviour and effective interventions to reduce hazardous and/or harmful drinking using the COM-B model of behaviour (capability, opportunity, motivation – behaviour); a systematic review of digital interventions for excessive alcohol use; studies to develop and test app modules, and a factorial RCT to evaluate the app modules.

Publications

Garnett, C., Crane, D., West, R., Michie, S., Brown, J., & Winstock, A. (2015). Normative misperceptions about alcohol use in the general population of drinkers: A cross-sectional survey. Addictive behaviors, 42, 203-206.

Garnett C, Crane D, West R, Brown J, Michie S. (2015). Identification of Behavior Change Techniques and Engagement Strategies to Design a Smartphone App to Reduce Alcohol Consumption Using a Formal Consensus Method. JMIR mHealth uHealth, 3(2):e73

Kaner, E. F., Beyer, F. R., Brown, J., Crane, D., Garnett, C., Hickman, M., Muirhead, C., Redmore, J., Michie., S., & de Vocht, F. (2015). Personalised digital interventions for reducing hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption in community-dwelling populations. The Cochrane Library.

Crane, D., Garnett, C., Brown, J., West, R., & Michie, S. (2015). Behavior Change Techniques in Popular Alcohol Reduction Apps: Content Analysis. Journal of medical Internet research, 17(5), e118.

Background

2013-2016: PhD in Health Psychology (Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, UCL) funded by the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies

2014: UCL Sulley Scholarship

2012-2013: MSc in Research Methods in Psychology (Merit, 69%), UCL

2009-2012: BA in Natural Sciences Tripos. Part II Experimental Psychology (Class 2.1), University of Cambridge