Trial reportAlcoholism, clinical and experimental research2010
Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT): 12-month outcomes of a randomized controlled clinical trial in a Polish emergency department.
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- The mere-measurement effect of patient-reported outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025Pooled it
- Psychosocial and pharmacologic interventions to reduce harmful alcohol use in low- and middle-income countries.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Culturally adapted evidence-based treatments for adults with substance use problems: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Pooled 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
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- Specialty substance use disorder services following brief alcohol intervention: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2015Pooled it
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- Can simply answering research questions change behaviour? Systematic review and meta analyses of brief alcohol intervention trials.PloS one · 2011Pooled it
- Assessment of an electronic and clinician-delivered brief intervention on cigarette, alcohol and illicit drug use among women in a reproductive healthcare clinic.Addictive behaviors · 2019Trial
- Randomized Study of Assessment Effects on Alcohol Use by Persons With HIV in Rural Uganda.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2017Trial
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- Brief Intervention in the Emergency Department Among Mexican-Origin Young Adults at the US-Mexico Border: Outcomes of a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial Using Promotores.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2016Trial
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- Emergency department-based brief intervention to reduce risky driving and hazardous/harmful drinking in young adults: a randomized controlled trial.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2013Trial
- Readiness to change, drinking, and negative consequences among Polish SBIRT patients.Addictive behaviors · 2012Trial
- Differences by gender at twelve months in a brief intervention trial among Mexican-origin young adults in the emergency department.Journal of ethnicity in substance abuseTrial
- Patient-centered care interventions for the management of alcohol use disorders: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.Patient preference and adherence · 2016Review
- Does Brief Intervention Work For Heavy Episodic Drinking? A Comparison of Emergency Department Patients in Two Cultures.Alkoholizm i narkomania · 2015Article
- Interpreting null findings from trials of alcohol brief interventions.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2014Review
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Abstract
backgroundA randomized controlled trial of screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) among at-risk (based on average number of drinks per week and drinks per drinking day) and dependent drinkers was conducted in an emergency department (ED) among 446 patients 18 and older in Sosnowiec, Poland.
methodsPatients were recruited over a 23-week period (4:00 pm to 12:00 midnight) and randomized to 1 of 3 conditions: screened-only (n = 147), assessed (n = 152), and intervention (n = 147). Patients in the assessed and intervention conditions were blindly reassessed via a telephone interview at 3 months, and all 3 groups were assessed at 12 months (screened-only = 92, assessed = 99, and intervention = 87).
resultsNo difference was found across the 3 conditions in at-risk drinking at 12 months, as the primary outcome variable, or in decrease in the number of drinks per drinking day, with all 3 groups showing a significant reduction in both. Significant declines between baseline and 12 months in secondary outcomes of the RAPS4, number of drinking days per week, and the maximum number of drinks on an occasion were seen only for the intervention condition, and in negative consequences for both the assessment and intervention conditions.
conclusionsData suggest that improvements in drinking outcomes found in the assessment condition were not because of assessment reactivity, with both the screened and intervention conditions demonstrating greater (although nonsignificant) improvement than the assessed condition. Only those in the intervention condition showed significant improvement in all outcome variables from baseline to 12-month follow-up. Although group by time interaction effects were not found to be significant, these findings suggest that declines in drinking measures for those receiving a brief intervention can be maintained at long-term follow-up.
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