Trial reportInternational journal of public health2012
A quasi-randomized group trial of a brief alcohol intervention on risky single occasion drinking among secondary school students.
Trial report in International journal of public health, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Neuroscience-informed classification of prevention interventions in substance use disorders: An RDoC-based approach.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Do Alcohol Prevention Programs Influence Adolescents' Drinking Behaviors? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Do brief alcohol interventions reduce tobacco use among adolescents and young adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2015Pooled it
- Effectiveness of brief school-based interventions for adolescents: a meta-analysis of alcohol use prevention programs.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2015Pooled it
- Brief alcohol interventions for adolescents and young adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2015Pooled it
- Alcohol screening and brief intervention for adolescents: the how, what and where of reducing alcohol consumption and related harm among young people.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire)Pooled it
- The Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Screening and Brief Alcohol Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Consumption in Young People in the High School Setting: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial (SIPS JR-HIGH).Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2022Trial
- Multidimensional Predictors of Treatment Outcome in Usual Care for Adolescent Conduct Problems and Substance Use.Administration and policy in mental health · 2017Trial
- The Impact of Motivational Interviewing on Delinquent Behaviors in Incarcerated Adolescents.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2016Trial
- Efficacy of an Internet and SMS-based integrated smoking cessation and alcohol intervention for smoking cessation in young people: study protocol of a two-arm cluster randomised controlled trial.BMC public health · 2014Trial
- Efficacy of a web- and text messaging-based intervention to reduce problem drinking in young people: study protocol of a cluster-randomised controlled trial.BMC public health · 2014Trial
- Addressing the challenges of reconstructing systematic reviews datasets: a case study and a noisy label filter procedure.Systematic reviews · 2024Article
- A qualitative exploration of school-based staff's experiences of delivering an alcohol screening and brief intervention in the high school setting: findings from the SIPS JR-HIGH trial.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2019Article
- A Systematic Review of School-Based Alcohol and other Drug Prevention Programs.Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health : CP & EMH · 2015Article
- A pre-post study on the appropriateness and effectiveness of a Web- and text messaging-based intervention to reduce problem drinking in emerging adults.Journal of medical Internet research · 2013Article
- Scaling up alcohol intervention among youth and experiments of naturalistic settings.International journal of public health · 2013Article
- Predictors of hazardous drinking, tobacco smoking and physical inactivity in vocational school students.BMC public health · 2013Article
- Moderators of Substance Use Disorder Treatment for Adolescents.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Review
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Abstract
objectivesTo show the effectiveness of a brief group alcohol intervention. Aims of the intervention were to reduce the frequency of heavy drinking occasions, maximum number of drinks on an occasion and overall weekly consumption.
methodsA cluster quasi-randomized control trial (intervention n = 338; control n = 330) among 16- to 18-year-old secondary school students in the Swiss Canton of Zürich. Groups homogeneous for heavy drinking occasions (5+/4+ drinks for men/women) consisted of those having medium risk (3-4) or high risk (5+) occasions in the past 30 days. Groups of 8-10 individuals received two 45-min sessions based on motivational interviewing techniques.
resultsBorderline significant beneficial effects (p < 0.10) on heavy drinking occasions and alcohol volume were found 6 months later for the medium-risk group only, but not for the high-risk group. None of the effects remained significant after Bonferroni corrections.
conclusionsGroup intervention was ineffective for all at-risk users. The heaviest drinkers may need more intensive treatment. Alternative explanations were iatrogenic effects among the heaviest drinkers, assessment reactivity, or reduction of social desirability bias at follow-up through peer feedback.
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