Trial reportAmerican journal of public health2009
Effects of a hepatitis C virus educational intervention or a motivational intervention on alcohol use, injection drug use, and sexual risk behaviors among injection drug users.
Trial report in American journal of public health, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00596843 (Chronic Hepatitis Intervention Project for Drug Users), which is not on this map. Cited by 22 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Chronic Hepatitis Intervention Project for Drug Users
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.
- Health-promotion interventions targeting multiple behaviors: A meta-analytic review of general and behavior-specific processes of change.Psychological bulletin · 2024Pooled it
- Motivational interviewing for substance use reduction.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Efficacy of psychosocial interventions to reduce alcohol use in comorbid alcohol use disorder and alcohol-related liver disease: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2023Pooled it
- Complex solutions for a complex problem: A meta-analysis of the efficacy of multiple-behavior interventions on change in outcomes related to HIV.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2021Pooled it
- More behavioral recommendations produce more change: A meta-analysis of efficacy of multibehavior recommendations to reduce nonmedical substance use.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2020Pooled it
- A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Psychosocial Interventions to Reduce Drug and Sexual Blood Borne Virus Risk Behaviours Among People Who Inject Drugs.AIDS and behavior · 2017Pooled it
- Motivational interviewing for substance abuse.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2011Pooled it
- DOES IT WORK? -a randomized controlled trial to test the efficacy of HCV and HIV-related education on drug users in MMT, China.BMC infectious diseases · 2019Trial
- Factors associated with HCV risk practices in methadone-maintained patients: the importance of considering the couple in prevention interventions.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2014Trial
- Randomized controlled trial of brief interventions to reduce college students' drinking and risky sex.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2011Trial
- Predictors and effects of alcohol use on liver function among young HCV-infected injection drug users in a behavioral intervention.Journal of hepatology · 2011Trial
- Alcohol-associated liver disease: Natural history, management and novel targeted therapies.Clinical and molecular hepatology · 2025Review
- Hepatitis C in Canada and the importance of risk-based screening.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2016Article
- Predictors of alcohol use among rural drug users after disclosure of hepatitis C virus status.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2013Article
- 'On the same level': facilitators' experiences running a drug user-led safer injecting education campaign.Harm reduction journal · 2013Article
- Risk factor profiles among intravenous drug using young adults: a latent class analysis (LCA) approach.Addictive behaviors · 2013Article
- Hazardous alcohol consumption among young adult IDU and its association with high risk behaviors.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2013Article
- Alcohol screening and brief intervention among drug users in primary care: a discussion paper.Irish journal of medical science · 2012Review
- Racial differences in acquisition of syringes from pharmacies under conditions of legal but restricted sales.The International journal on drug policy · 2010Article
- Using a modified intervention mapping approach to develop and refine a single-session motivational intervention for methamphetamine-using men who have sex with men.The open AIDS journal · 2010Article
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Abstract
objectivesWe compared the effects of 2 interventions on alcohol use, use of a new syringe at last injection, and condom use at last sexual encounter in a community sample of injection drug users.
methodsBetween 2003 and 2006, 851 out-of-treatment injection drug users were recruited in Raleigh, NC, and Durham, NC, through street outreach and were randomly assigned to either a 6-session educational intervention or a 6-session motivational intervention. Intervention effects were examined at 6 and 12 months after enrollment.
resultsIn multiple logistic regression analyses adjusted for baseline alcohol use and HCV status, participants assigned to the motivational intervention were significantly less likely than were participants in the educational intervention to be drinking at the 6-month follow-up (odds ratio = 0.67; 95% confidence interval = 0.46, 0.97). There were no significant between-group differences in use of a new syringe at last injection or condom use at last sexual encounter at either follow-up.
conclusionsReducing alcohol use among persons with HCV may slow disease progression and provide important health benefits. Additional strategies are needed for slowing HCV disease progression until more effective HCV treatments are available.
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