Dr Abigail Stevely

All publications

Journal articles

• Stevely A, Wilson L, Kersbergen I, McGrane E, Moore E, Pryce R, Brown J & Holmes J (2025) Current and future trends in the consumption, sale and purchasing of alcohol-free and low-alcohol products in Great Britain, 2014 to 2023. Addiction.
• Stevely A, Garnett C, Holmes J, Jones A, Dinu L & Oldham M (2024) Optimizing the measurement of information on the context of alcohol consumption within the Drink Less app among people drinking at increasing and higher risk levels: mixed-methods usability study. JMIR Formative Research, 8. View this article in WRRO
• Morris D, Angus C, Gillespie D, Stevely A, Pryce R, Wilson L, Henney M, Meier P, Holmes J & Brennan A (2024) Estimating the effect of transitioning to a strength-based alcohol tax system on alcohol consumption and health outcomes: a modelling study of tax reform in England. The Lancet Public Health. View this article in WRRO
• Wilson LB, Bain M, Hernandez-Alava M, Holmes J, Pryce R, Sasso A, Stevely AK, Warde A & Meier PS (2024) Solitary drinkers in Great Britain: How do their sociodemographic characteristics, consumption patterns, and drinking occasions differ from those who drink with others?. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. View this article in WRRO
• Holmes J, Sasso A, Hernández Alava M, Borges Neves R, Stevely AK, Warde A & Meier PS (2024) How is alcohol consumption and heavy episodic drinking spread across different types of drinking occasion in Great Britain: An event-level latent class analysis. International Journal of Drug Policy, 127, 104414-104414.
• Holmes J, Sasso A, Hernández Alava M, Stevely AK, Warde A, Angus C & Meier PS (2023) Change and stability in british drinking practices and culture between 2009 and 2019: A longitudinal latent class analysis of drinking occasions.. SSM - Population Health, 101548-101548.
• Stevely AK, Gray LA, Fairbrother H, Fenton L, Henney M & Holmes J (2023) A latent class analysis of change and continuity in adolescent health and wellbeing in England during the decline in youth alcohol consumption: a repeat cross-sectional study. Preventive Medicine Reports. View this article in WRRO
• Stevely AK, Mackay D, Alava MH, Brennan A, Meier PS, Sasso A & Holmes J (2023) Evaluating the effects of minimum unit pricing in Scotland on the prevalence of harmful drinking: a controlled interrupted time series analysis. Public Health, 220, 43-49.
• Holmes J, Sasso A, Alava MH, Neves RB, Stevely AK, Warde A & Meier PS (2022) The distribution of alcohol consumption and heavy episodic drinking across British drinking occasions in 2019: a cross-sectional, latent, class analysis of event-level drinking diary data.. Lancet, 400 Suppl 1, S50.
• Hardie I, Stevely AK, Sasso A, Meier PS & Holmes J (2022) The impact of changes in COVID‐19 lockdown restrictions on alcohol consumption and drinking occasion characteristics in Scotland and England in 2020 : an interrupted time‐series analysis. Addiction.
• Stevely AK, Holmes J & Meier PS (2021) Combinations of Drinking Occasion Characteristics Associated with Units of Alcohol Consumed among British Adults: An Event-Level Decision Tree Modeling Study.. Alcohol Clin Exp Res, 45(3), 630-637. View this article in WRRO
• Stevely AK, Vocht F, Neves Lic RB, Holmes J & Meier PS (2021) Evaluating the effects of the Licensing Act 2003 on the characteristics of drinking occasions in England & Wales: A theory of change‐guided evaluation of a natural experiment. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
• Holmes J, Beard E, Brown J, Brennan A, Kersbergen I, Meier PS, Michie S, Stevely AK & Buykx P (2020) The impact of promoting revised UK low-risk drinking guidelines on alcohol consumption: interrupted time series analysis. Public Health Research, 8(14). View this article in WRRO
• Holmes J, Beard E, Brown J, Brennan A, Meier PS, Michie S, Stevely AK, Webster L & Buykx PF (2020) Effects on alcohol consumption of announcing and implementing revised UK low-risk drinking guidelines : findings from an interrupted time series analysis. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. View this article in WRRO
• Stevely AK, Holmes J, McNamara S & Meier PS (2020) Drinking contexts and their association with acute alcohol‐related harm : a systematic review of event‐level studies on adults' drinking occasions. Drug and Alcohol Review. View this article in WRRO
• Stevely AK, Holmes J & Meier PS (2019) Contextual characteristics of adults’ drinking occasions and their association with levels of alcohol consumption and acute alcohol‐related harm : a mapping review. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
• McNamara S, Holmes J, Stevely A & Tsuchiya A (2019) How averse are the UK general-public to inequalities in health between socioeconomic groups? A systematic review. The European Journal of Health Economics. View this article in WRRO
• Stevely AK, Buykx P, Brown J, Beard E, Michie S, Meier PS & Holmes J (2018) Exposure to revised drinking guidelines and ‘COM-B’ determinants of behaviour change: descriptive analysis of a monthly cross-sectional survey in England. BMC Public Health, 18(1), 251-251. View this article in WRRO
• Stevely A & Holmes J () A Systematic Review of Adolescent Alcohol-Related Harm Trends in High-income Countries with Declines in Adolescent Consumption. Addiction.
• Meier PS, Holmes J, Stevely A, Boyd JE, Alava MH, Hardie I, Warde A & Sasso A () Drinking practices: The variation of drinking events across intersections of sex, age and household income. Drug and Alcohol Review.
• Oldham M, Okpako T, Leppin C, Garnett C, Dina L-M, Stevely A, Jones A & Holmes J () Cutting consumption without diluting the experience: Preferences for different tactics for reducing alcohol consumption among increasing-and-higher-risk drinkers based on drinking context. PLOS Digital Health, 3(8), e0000523-e0000523.
• Stevely AK, Gray LA, Fairbrother H, Fenton L, Henney M, Kersbergen I & Holmes J () A latent class analysis of international change and continuity in adolescent health and wellbeing: a repeat cross-sectional study. PLoS ONE. View this article in WRRO
• Dunphy J, Vieira E, Stevely AK, Livingston M, Vashishtha R, Rivelin K & Holmes J () Have declines in the prevalence of young adult drinking in English-speaking high-income countries followed declines in youth drinking? A systematic review. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 1-14.
• Fenton L, Fairbrother H, Whitaker V, Henney M, Stevely AK & Holmes J () Geographies of alcohol and generation: Examining the decline in youth drinking in England through a spatial lens. Drug and Alcohol Review.
• Fenton L, Fairbrother H, Whitaker V, Henney M, Stevely A & Holmes J () ‘When I came to university, that’s when the real shift came’: alcohol and belonging in English higher education. Journal of Youth Studies, 1-17.
• Warde A, Sasso A, Holmes J, Hernandez Alava M, Stevely A & Meier P () Situated drinking: the association between eating and alcohol consumption in Great Britain. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
• Stevely A, Vashishtha R, Fairbrother H, Fenton L, Henney M, Livingston M & Holmes J () Are changes in attitudes towards school associated with declining youth drinking? A multi-level analysis of 37 countries. European Journal of Public Health.
• Stevely A, Dimairo M, Todd S, Julious SA, Nicholl J, Hind D & Cooper CL () An Investigation of the Shortcomings of the CONSORT 2010 Statement for the Reporting of Group Sequential Randomised Controlled Trials: A Methodological Systematic Review. PLOS ONE, 10(11), e0141104-e0141104. View this article in WRRO
• Holmes J, Angus C, Sasso A, Stevely A & Meier P () What proportion of on-trade alcohol is served to those who are already potentially intoxicated? An analysis of event-level data. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

Conference proceedings papers

• Stevely A, Holmes J, Sasso A, Alava MH, Warde A, Angus C & Meier P (2023) OP54 Change and stability in British adults’ drinking practices and culture between 2009 and 2019: A longitudinal latent class analysis. SSM Annual Scientific Meeting
• Holmes J, Beard E, Brennan A, Brown J, Gillespie D, Meier PS, Michie S, Stevely AK, Webster L & Buykx P (2019) Effects on alcohol consumption of announcing revised UK low-risk drinking guidelines : findings from a monthly cross-sectional survey. The Lancet, Vol. 394 (pp S54-S54). London, UK, 29 November 2019 - 29 November 2019. View this article in WRRO
• Dimairo M, Stevely A, Todd S, Julious S, Nicholl J, Hind D & Cooper C (2015) Investigation of the shortcomings of the consort 2010 statement for the reporting of group sequential randomised controlled trials. Trials, Vol. 16(S2) View this article in WRRO

Reports

• Stevely A (2023) New modelling of alcohol pricing policies, alcohol consumption and harm in Scotland
• Stevely A (2022) Evaluating the impact of Minimum Unit Pricing in Scotland on people who are drinking at harmful levels
• Stevely A, Sasso A, Alava MH & Holmes J (2021) Changes in alcohol consumption in Scotland during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: Descriptive analysis of repeat cross-sectional survey data

Preprints

• Holmes J, Sasso A, Alava MH, Neves RB, Stevely AK, Warde A & Meier PS (2023) Alcohol consumption and heavy episodic drinking within different types of drinking occasion in Great Britain: An event-level latent class analysis, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
• Stevely AK, Garnett C, Holmes J, Jones A, Dinu L & Oldham M (2023) Optimizing the Measurement of Information on the Context of Alcohol Consumption Within the Drink Less App Among People Drinking at Increasing and Higher Risk Levels: Mixed-Methods Usability Study (Preprint), JMIR Publications Inc..