Trial reportPloS one2012
Ultra-brief intervention for problem drinkers: results from a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in PloS one, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Ultra-brief Intervention for Problem Drinkers
Impact of Six Patient Information Leaflets (PIL) on Doctor Patient Communication and Adherence in Emergency Ward
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Effectiveness of screening and ultra-brief intervention for hazardous drinking in primary care: pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2025Trial
- Vorvida: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of Internet-based self-help program for the reduction of alcohol consumption for adults.BMC psychiatry · 2016Trial
- Testing the initial efficacy of a mailed screening and brief feedback intervention to reduce at-risk drinking in middle-aged and older adults: the comorbidity alcohol risk evaluation study.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2015Trial
- A comparison of three types of web-based inhibition training for the reduction of alcohol consumption in problem drinkers: study protocol.BMC public health · 2014Trial
- The effectiveness of an ultra-brief intervention in 1 min for hazardous drinking in a general hospital setting: A quasi-randomized pilot trial.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2024Article
- Promoting benzodiazepine cessation through an electronically-delivered patient self-management intervention (EMPOWER-ED): Randomized controlled trial protocol.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2022Article
- The Role of Alcohol-Related Behavioral Research in the Design of HIV Secondary Prevention Interventions in the Era of Antiretroviral Therapy: Targeted Research Priorities Moving Forward.AIDS and behavior · 2021Article
- Online personalized feedback intervention to reduce risky cannabis use. Randomized controlled trial.Internet interventions · 2021Article
- Effectiveness of Screening and Brief Alcohol Intervention at the Workplace: A Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial at Five Japan-Based Companies.Yonago acta medica · 2021Article
- The prevalence and impact of elevated anxiety sensitivity among hazardous drinking college students.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020Article
- An exploratory pilot study of mechanisms of action within normative feedback for adult drinkers.PeerJ · 2016Article
- Integrated strategies for combination HIV prevention: principles and examples for men who have sex with men in the Americas and heterosexual African populations.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2013Article
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Authors and funding
4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundThere are a number of evidence-based, in-person clinical inteventions for problem drinkers, but most problem drinkers will never seek such treatments. Reaching the population of non-treatment seeking problem drinkers will require a different approach. Accordingly, this randomized clinical trial evaluated an intervention that has been validated in clinical settings and then modified into an ultra-brief format suitable for use as an indicated public health intervention (i.e., targeting the population of non-treatment seeking problem drinkers). METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL
findingsProblem drinkers (N = 1767) completed a baseline population telephone survey and then were randomized to one of three conditions - a personalized feedback pamphlet condition, a control pamphlet condition, or a no intervention control condition. In the week after the baseline survey, households in the two pamphlet conditions were sent their respective interventions by postal mail addressed to 'Check Your Drinking.' Changes in drinking were assessed post intervention at three-month and six-month follow-ups. The follow-up rate was 86% at three-months and 76% at six-months. There was a small effect (p = .04) in one of three outcome variables (reduction in AUDIT-C, a composite measure of quantity and frequency of drinking) observed for the personalized feedback pamphlet compared to the no intervention control. No significant differences (p>.05) between groups were observed for the other two outcome variables - number of drinks consumed in the past seven days and highest number of drinks on one occasion. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Based on the results of this study, we tentatively conclude that a brief intervention, modified to an ultra-brief, public health format can have a meaningful impact.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT00688584.
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