Trial reportAnnals of surgery2014
A multisite randomized controlled trial of brief intervention to reduce drinking in the trauma care setting: how brief is brief?
Trial report in Annals of surgery, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 45 citations in OpenAlex.
- Motivational interviewing for substance use reduction.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Effectiveness of brief alcohol interventions in primary care populations.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Feasibility and acceptability of a trauma-informed and peer-supported digital brief intervention for heavy-drinking emerging adults with interpersonal trauma.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2026Trial
- Measurement Invariance of the Readiness to Change Questionnaire Among Injured Patients Who Received a Brief Intervention for Alcohol Use.Assessment · 2022Trial
- The Effects of a Brief Motivational Intervention for Alcohol Use through Stages of Change among Nontreatment Seeking Injured Patients.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2020Trial
- Dosage of booster phone calls following an SBIRT intervention in the emergency department for reducing substance use.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2020Trial
- Protective behavioral strategies predict alcohol-related problems among injured patients following a brief intervention.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2019Trial
- A pragmatic randomised trial of two counselling models at the Swedish national alcohol helpline.BMC psychiatry · 2019Trial
- Personalized Boosters After a Computerized Intervention Targeting College Drinking: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2018Trial
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- A Randomized Evaluation of Motivational Interviewing Training for Mandated Implementation of Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention in Trauma Centers.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2016Trial
- Cultural adaptation of a brief motivational intervention for heavy drinking among Hispanics in a medical setting.BMC public health · 2015Trial
- Musculoskeletal Clinicians' Perspectives on Integrated Digital Personalized Feedback Interventions to Address Risky Alcohol use and PTSD after Musculoskeletal Injury.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2026Article
- The influence of cognitive and affective components of the sentinel event on alcohol use following a brief intervention with trauma patients.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2023Article
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- Mechanisms of change in drinking following an alcohol-related injury: A qualitative examination of the sentinel event effect.Substance abuse · 2021Article
- Factor, Concurrent and Predictive Validity of the Readiness to Change Questionnaire [Treatment Version] Among Non-Treatment-Seeking Individuals.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2020Article
- Implementing and Evaluating SBIRT for Alcohol Use at a Level 1 Trauma Center: A Behavioral Medicine Approach.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2020Article
- Natural language processing and machine learning to identify alcohol misuse from the electronic health record in trauma patients: development and internal validation.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2019Observational
- Use of non-face-to-face modalities for emergency department screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (ED-SBIRT) for high-risk alcohol use: A scoping review.Substance abuse · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveDetermine the efficacy of 3 brief intervention strategies that address heavy drinking among injured patients.
backgroundThe content or structure of brief interventions most effective at reducing alcohol misuse after traumatic injury is not known.
methodsInjured patients from 3 trauma centers were screened for heavy drinking and randomly assigned to brief advice (n = 200), brief motivational intervention (BMI) (n = 203), or BMI plus a telephone booster using personalized feedback or BMI + B (n = 193). Among those randomly assigned, 57% met criteria for moderate to severe alcohol problems. The primary drinking outcomes were assessed at 3, 6, and 12 months.
resultsCompared with brief advice and BMI, BMI + B showed significant reductions in the number of standard drinks consumed per week at 3 (Δ adjusted means: -1.22, 95% confidence interval [CI]: -0.99, approximately -1.49, P = 0.01) and 6 months (Δ adjusted means: -1.42, 95% CI: -1.14, approximately -1.76, P = 0.02), percent days of heavy drinking at 6 months (Δ adjusted means: -5.90, 95% CI: -11.40, approximately -0.40, P = 0.04), maximum number of standard drinks consumed in 1 day at 3 (Δ adjusted means: -1.38, 95% CI: -1.18, approximately -1.62, P = 0.003) and 12 months (Δ adjusted means: -1.71, 95% CI: -1.47, approximately -1.99, P = 0.02), and number of standard drinks consumed per drinking day at 3 (Δ adjusted means: -1.49, 95% CI: -1.35, approximately -1.65, P = 0.002) and 6 months (Δ adjusted means: -1.28, 95% CI: -1.17, approximately -1.40, P = 0.01).
conclusionsBrief interventions based on motivational interviewing with a telephone booster using personalized feedback were most effective at achieving reductions in alcohol intake across the 3 trauma centers.
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