Trial reportJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs2012
Cost-effectiveness analysis of motivational interviewing with feedback to reduce drinking among a sample of college students.
Trial report in Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Motivational interviewing for substance use reduction.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Economic evaluations of alcohol prevention interventions: Is the evidence sufficient? A review of methodological challenges.Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2017Pooled it
- Motivational interviewing for the prevention of alcohol misuse in young adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Cost-Effectiveness of Motivational Interviewing to Reduce Alcohol and Cannabis Use Among Patients With Depression.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2022Trial
- The comparative effectiveness of individual and group brief motivational interventions for mandated college students.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2014Trial
- Cost-effectiveness of the strong African American families-teen program: 1-year follow-up.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2013Trial
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- Facilitating Behavior Change in Plastic Surgery Patients Who Inject Drugs Through Motivational Interviewing.Plastic surgery (Oakville, Ont.) · 2023Article
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- REMIT: Development of a mHealth theory-based intervention to decrease heavy episodic drinking among college students.Addiction research & theory · 2018Article
- Brief interventions to address substance use among patients presenting to emergency departments in resource poor settings: a cost-effectiveness analysis.Cost effectiveness and resource allocation : C/E · 2018Article
- Reviewing and interpreting the effects of brief alcohol interventions: comment on a Cochrane review about motivational interviewing for young adults.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2016Article
- Mechanisms of action of brief alcohol interventions remain largely unknown - a narrative review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2014Review
- Costs of a motivational enhancement therapy coupled with cognitive behavioral therapy versus brief advice for pregnant substance users.PloS one · 2014Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study evaluated the costs and cost-effectiveness of combining motivational interviewing with feedback to address heavy drinking among university freshmen.
methodMicrocosting methods were used in a prospective cost and cost-effectiveness study of a randomized trial of assessment only (AO), motivational interviewing (MI), feedback only (FB), and motivational interviewing with feedback (MIFB) at a large public university in the southeastern United States. Students were recruited and screened into the study during freshman classes based on recent heavy drinking. A total of 727 students (60% female) were randomized, and 656 had sufficient data at 3-months' follow-up to be included in the cost-effectiveness analysis. Effectiveness outcomes were changes in average drinks per drinking occasion and number of heavy drinking occasions.
resultsMean intervention costs per student were $16.51 for MI, $17.33 for FB, and $36.03 for MIFB. Cost-effectiveness analysis showed two cost-effective interventions for both outcomes: AO ($0 per student) and MIFB ($36 per student).
conclusionsThis is the first prospective cost-effectiveness study to our knowledge to examine MI for heavy drinking among students in a university setting. Despite being the most expensive intervention, MIFB was the most effective intervention and may be a cost-effective intervention, depending on a university's willingness to pay for changes in the considered outcomes.
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