Trial reportJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs2009
Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) in a Polish emergency department: three-month outcomes of a randomized, controlled clinical trial.
Trial report in Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Psychosocial and pharmacologic interventions to reduce harmful alcohol use in low- and middle-income countries.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Effectiveness of brief alcohol interventions in primary care populations.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Effectiveness of SBIRT for Alcohol Use Disorders in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2017Pooled it
- Will emergency and surgical patients participate in and complete alcohol interventions? A systematic review.BMC surgery · 2011Pooled it
- Alcohol misuse.BMJ clinical evidence · 2011Pooled it
- Brief intervention to increase emergency department uptake of combined rapid human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C screening among a drug misusing population.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2014Trial
- Readiness to change, drinking, and negative consequences among Polish SBIRT patients.Addictive behaviors · 2012Trial
- Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT): 12-month outcomes of a randomized controlled clinical trial in a Polish emergency department.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2010Trial
- Effects of a structured SBIRT training program for hospital nursing leaders on utilization of SBIRT within their medical-surgical units: cohort study.BMC nursing · 2025Article
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- Does Brief Intervention Work For Heavy Episodic Drinking? A Comparison of Emergency Department Patients in Two Cultures.Alkoholizm i narkomania · 2015Article
- Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment (SBIRT), and Motivational Interviewing for PGY-1 Medical Residents.Journal of graduate medical education · 2014Article
- Interrelationship of alcohol misuse, HIV sexual risk and HIV screening uptake among emergency department patients.BMC emergency medicine · 2013Article
- Evaluation of California's Alcohol and Drug Screening and Brief Intervention Project for Emergency Department Patients.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2013Article
- Sex differences in alcohol misuse and estimated blood alcohol concentrations among emergency department patients: implications for brief interventions.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2012Article
- Brief Intervention for Emergency Department Patients with Alcohol Misuse: Implications for Current Practice.Alcoholism treatment quarterly · 2011Article
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Abstract
objectiveA randomized, controlled trial of screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for drinking and related problems among at-risk and dependent drinkers was conducted in an emergency department (ED) in Sosnowiec, Poland, among patients ages 18 years and older.
methodData were collected over a 23-week period, from 4:00 PM to midnight, and resulted in 446 patients being recruited into the study (90% of those who screened positive) and randomized to three conditions following a two-stage process: screened only (n = 147), assessed (n = 152), and received intervention (n = 147). Patients in the assessment (85%) and intervention (83%) conditions were blindly reassessed at 3 months via a telephone interview.
resultsAt 3-month follow-up, both groups showed significant decreases in the proportion who were positive for at-risk drinking, the primary outcome variable. Both groups also showed significant decreases in drinking days per week, drinks per drinking day, maximum drinks per occasion, and negative consequences of drinking. Using analysis of covariance to control for baseline measures and demographic characteristics, no difference in outcome measures was found between intervention and assessment conditions. Subgroup analysis found some significant interactions between intervention and secondary outcomes.
conclusionsAlthough the main findings were similar to those from other brief-intervention studies in Western cultures, findings here also suggest that intervention may have differential benefits for specific subgroups of patients in the ED, an area of research that may warrant additional study of brief intervention in the ED setting.
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