Dr Abigail Stevely

All publications

Journal articles

• Buss V, Kale D, Oldham M, Shahab L, Stevely A, Kersbergen I & Brown J (2025) Trends in use of alcohol-free or low alcohol drinks in attempts to reduce alcohol consumption in Great Britain, 2020-2024: a population-based study. BMJ Public Health, 3(2). View this article in WRRO
• Moolla A, Holmes J, Wilson L, Brown J, Kersbergen I & Stevely A (2025) Temporary and sustained changes in alcoholic and alcohol-free or low-alcohol drinks sales during January? A time series analysis of seasonal patterning in Great Britain. International Journal of Drug Policy, 145. View this article in WRRO
• Wilson L, Stevely AK, Kersbergen I, McGrane E, Moore EC, Pryce RE, 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, 120(8), 1655-1665. View this article in WRRO
• Vieira E, Taylor N, Stevely A, Pennay A, Raninen J, Holmes J, Vashishtha R & Livingston M (2025) A systematic review of adolescent alcohol-related harm trends in high-income countries with declines in adolescent consumption. Addiction, 120(8), 1551-1570. View this article in WRRO
• Meier PS, Holmes J, Stevely A, Boyd JE, Alava MH, Hardie I, Warde A & Sasso A (2025) Drinking practices: the variation of drinking events across intersections of sex, age and household income. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44(1), 144-156. View this article in WRRO
• Wilson LB, Bain M, Hernandez-Alava M, Holmes J, Pryce R, Sasso A, Stevely AK, Warde A & Meier PS (2025) 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, 86(1), 39-47. View this article in WRRO
• Dunphy J, Vieira E, Stevely AK, Livingston M, Vashishtha R, Rivelin K & Holmes J (2025) 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, 32(1), 15-28. View this article in WRRO
• 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, 9(10), e719-e728. View this article in WRRO
• Oldham M, Okpako T, Leppin C, Garnett C, Dina L-M, Stevely A, Jones A & Holmes J (2024) 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). View this article in WRRO
• Stevely AK, Gray LA, Fairbrother H, Fenton L, Henney M, Kersbergen I & Holmes J (2024) A latent class analysis of international change and continuity in adolescent health and wellbeing: a repeat cross-sectional study. PLoS ONE, 19(6). 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. View this article in WRRO
• Fenton L, Fairbrother H, Whitaker V, Henney M, Stevely AK & Holmes J (2024) Geographies of alcohol and generation: examining the decline in youth drinking in England through a spatial lens. Drug and Alcohol Review, 43(3), 675-684. View this article in WRRO
• 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, 24. View this article in WRRO
• 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, 36. 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. View this article in WRRO
• Fenton L, Fairbrother H, Whitaker V, Henney M, Stevely A & Holmes J (2023) ‘When I came to university, that’s when the real shift came’: alcohol and belonging in English higher education. Journal of Youth Studies, 27(7), 1006-1022. View this article in WRRO
• Warde A, Sasso A, Holmes J, Hernandez Alava M, Stevely A & Meier P (2023) Situated drinking: the association between eating and alcohol consumption in Great Britain. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 40(3), 301-318. View this article in WRRO
• 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.
• Stevely A, Vashishtha R, Fairbrother H, Fenton L, Henney M, Livingston M & Holmes J (2022) Are changes in attitudes towards school associated with declining youth drinking? A multi-level analysis of 37 countries. European Journal of Public Health, 32(3), 354-359. View this article in WRRO
• 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, 117(6), 1622-1639.
• Holmes J, Angus C, Sasso A, Stevely A & Meier P (2021) 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, 82(5), 602-609. View this article in WRRO
• 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.
• 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, 116(9), 2348-2359.
• 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, 74(11), 942-949. 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
• 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, 39(4), 309-320. View this article in WRRO
• McNamara S, Holmes J, Stevely AK & Tsuchiya A (2020) How averse are the UK general-public to inequalities in health between socioeconomic groups? A systematic review. The European Journal of Health Economics, 21(2), 275-285. View this article in WRRO
• Stevely AK, Holmes J & Meier PS (2020) Contextual characteristics of adults’ drinking occasions and their association with levels of alcohol consumption and acute alcohol‐related harm : a mapping review. Addiction, 115(2), 218-229. View this article in WRRO
• 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, 394, S54-S54. 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. View this article in WRRO
• Stevely A, Dimairo M, Todd S, Julious SA, Nicholl J, Hind D & Cooper CL (2015) 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). View this article in WRRO

Conference proceedings

• 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 (pp A27.2-A27)
• 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(Supp 2). Glasgow, UK, 16 November 2015 - 16 November 2015. View this article in WRRO

Reports

• Wilson L, McGrane E, Angus C, Kersbergen I, Pryce R, Stevely A & Holmes J (2025) Alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks in Great Britain: Monitoring report on 2023 data
• 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 AK, 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 View this article in WRRO

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..