Trial reportBMC public health2008
Ultra-brief intervention for problem drinkers: research protocol.
Trial report in BMC public health, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00688584 (Ultra-brief Intervention for Problem Drinkers), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Ultra-brief Intervention for Problem Drinkers
Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Social norms information for alcohol misuse in university and college students.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Smartphone-Based Intervention Targeting Norms and Risk Perception Among University Students with Unhealthy Alcohol Use: Secondary Mediation Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Trial
- A comparison of three types of web-based inhibition training for the reduction of alcohol consumption in problem drinkers: study protocol.BMC public health · 2014Trial
- Ultra-brief intervention for problem drinkers: results from a randomized controlled trial.PloS one · 2012Trial
- Who uses online interventions for problem drinkers?Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2011Trial
- Event-specific drinking in the general population.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2014Article
- Normative misperceptions about alcohol use in a general population sample of problem drinkers from a large metropolitan city.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire)Article
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Authors and funding
4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundHelping the large number of problem drinkers who will never seek treatment is a challenging issue. Public health initiatives employing educational materials or mass media campaigns have met with mixed success. However, clinical research has developed effective brief interventions to help problem drinkers. This project will employ an intervention that has been validated in clinical settings and then modified into an ultra-brief format suitable for use as a public health intervention. The major objective of this study is to conduct a randomized controlled trial to establish the effectiveness of an ultra-brief, personalized feedback intervention for problem drinkers. METHODS/
designProblem drinkers recruited on a baseline population telephone survey conducted in a major metropolitan city in Canada will be randomized to one of three conditions - a personalized feedback pamphlet condition, a control pamphlet condition, or a no intervention control condition. In the week after the baseline survey, households in the two pamphlet conditions will be sent their respective pamphlets. Changes in drinking will be assessed post intervention at three-month and six-month follow-ups. Drinking outcomes will be compared between experimental conditions using Structural Equation Modeling. The primary hypothesis is that problem drinkers from households who receive the personalized feedback pamphlet intervention will display significantly improved drinking outcomes at three and six-month follow-ups as compared to problem drinkers from households in the no intervention control condition. Secondary hypotheses will test the impact of the intervention on help seeking, and explore the mediating or moderating role of perceived drinking norms, perceived alcohol risks and the problem drinker's social reasons for drinking. DISCUSSION: This trial will provide information on the effectiveness of a pamphlet-based personalized feedback intervention for problem drinkers in a community setting.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov registration #NCT00688584.
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