Trial reportAddiction science & clinical practice2012
Testing the effects of brief intervention in primary care for problem drug use in a randomized controlled trial: rationale, design, and methods.
Trial report in Addiction science & clinical practice, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00877331 (Brief Intervention in Primary Care for Problem Drug Use and Abuse), which is not on this map. Cited by 24 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Brief Intervention in Primary Care for Problem Drug Use and Abuse
Who cites it
24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 40 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- A multivariate meta-analysis of motivational interviewing process and outcome.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2017Pooled it
- Advancing methods for reliably assessing motivational interviewing fidelity using the motivational interviewing skills code.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2015Pooled it
- Organizational Acceptability of Implementing SBIRT for Adolescents in Primary Care.Substance use & misuse · 2021Trial
- Comparing the motivational interviewing integrity in two prevalent models of brief intervention service delivery for primary care settings.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2015Trial
- Trial
- Workforce and systems change to treat adolescent substance use disorder within integrated pediatric primary care: A cluster-randomized stepped-wedge trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2025Article
- Association of machine-learning-rated supportive counseling skills with psychotherapy outcome.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2025Article
- Automated evaluation of psychotherapy skills using speech and language technologies.Behavior research methods · 2022Article
- Quality Metrics and Systems Transformation: Are We Advancing Alcohol and Drug Screening in Primary Care?Health services research · 2018Article
- Rating motivational interviewing fidelity from thin slices.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2018Article
- Suicide risk and associated demographic and clinical correlates among primary care patients with recent drug use.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2016Article
- A technology prototype system for rating therapist empathy from audio recordings in addiction counseling.PeerJ. Computer science · 2016Article
- "It sounds like...": A natural language processing approach to detecting counselor reflections in motivational interviewing.Journal of counseling psychology · 2016Article
- Comparison of Homeless and Non-Homeless Problem Drug Users Recruited from Primary Care Safety-Net Clinics.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2015Article
- Computational psychotherapy research: scaling up the evaluation of patient-provider interactions.Psychotherapy (Chicago, Ill.) · 2015Article
- "Rate My Therapist": Automated Detection of Empathy in Drug and Alcohol Counseling via Speech and Language Processing.PloS one · 2015Article
- Unhealthy drug use: how to screen, when to intervene.The Journal of family practice · 2014Article
- Scaling up the evaluation of psychotherapy: evaluating motivational interviewing fidelity via statistical text classification.Implementation science : IS · 2014Article
- Screening and brief intervention for unhealthy drug use: little or no efficacy.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2014Review
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Authors and funding
8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundA substantial body of research has established the effectiveness of brief interventions for problem alcohol use. Following these studies, national dissemination projects of screening, brief intervention (BI), and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for alcohol and drugs have been implemented on a widespread scale in multiple states despite little existing evidence for the impact of BI on drug use for non-treatment seekers. This article describes the design of a study testing the impact of SBIRT on individuals with drug problems, its contributions to the existing literature, and its potential to inform drug policy. METHODS/
designThe study is a randomized controlled trial of an SBIRT intervention carried out in a primary care setting within a safety net system of care. Approximately 1,000 individuals presenting for scheduled medical care at one of seven designated primary care clinics who endorse problematic drug use when screened are randomized in a 1:1 ratio to BI versus enhanced care as usual (ECAU). Individuals in both groups are reassessed at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after baseline. Self-reported drug use and other psychosocial measures collected at each data point are supplemented by urine analysis and public health-related data from administrative databases. DISCUSSION: This study will contribute to the existing literature by providing evidence for the impact of BI on problem drug use based on a broad range of measures including self-reported drug use, urine analysis, admission to drug abuse treatment, and changes in utilization and costs of health care services, arrests, and death with the intent of informing policy and program planning for problem drug use at the local, state, and national levels.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT00877331.
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