Inclusion criteria | Reasoning |
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(1) Minimal age of 18 years | To ensure a minimum age of participation |
(2) AUDIT score ≥8 (and in the Netherlands: an AUDIT score <20) | To include alcohol users with at least harmful or hazardous alcohol use (and in the Netherlands, to exclude alcohol users likely to meet dependence criteria) |
(3) To have a CES-D-20 score ≥16 and ≤32 | To include participants with at least significant or mild depression symptoms |
(4) To have at least weekly internet access | To ensure minimal access to intervention |
Exclusion criteria | Reasoning |
(1) Participation in other psychosocial or pharmacological treatments for the reduction/cessation of alcohol use or the reduction of depression symptoms | To avoid confounding treatment effects |
(2) Use of opioids, cocaine or amphetamine-type stimulants in the past 30 days and/or cannabis use for more than three times a week in the previous 30 days | To avoid confounding drug effects |
(2) Ever been in treatment for cardiovascular problems | To avoid the possibility of participants with these problems entering the study |
(3) Suicide attempt history, actual suicide plans, elevated probability for a suicide attempt (P4 suicidal screener score ‘minimal risk’) | To avoid the possibility of participants with these problems entering the study |
(4) For female participants: pregnancy or breastfeeding | To avoid the possibility of women with these conditions entering the study |
AUDIT, Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test; CES-D, Centre of Epidemiologic Studies of Depression Scale.