ArticleAddiction (Abingdon, England)2014
The early history of ideas on brief interventions for alcohol.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Efficacy of Motivational Interviewing and Brief Interventions on tobacco use among healthy adults: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials.Investigacion y educacion en enfermeria · 2022Pooled it
- Using Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to investigate facilitators and barriers of implementing alcohol screening and brief intervention among primary care health professionals: a systematic review.Implementation science : IS · 2021Pooled it
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- What can primary care services do to help First Nations people with unhealthy alcohol use? A systematic review: Australia, New Zealand, USA and Canada.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2020Pooled it
- A pilot cluster randomised trial of the medicines and alcohol consultation (MAC): an intervention to discuss alcohol use in community pharmacy medicine review services.BMC health services research · 2020Trial
- Counselling for Alcohol Problems (CAP), a lay counsellor-delivered brief psychological treatment for harmful drinking in men, in primary care in India: a randomised controlled trial.Lancet (London, England) · 2017Trial
- The effectiveness of brief alcohol interventions delivered by community pharmacists: randomized controlled trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2015Trial
- Treatment dismantling pilot study to identify the active ingredients in personalized feedback interventions for hazardous alcohol use: randomized controlled trial.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2014Trial
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- Brief interventions 2.0: a new agenda for alcohol policy, practice and research.Globalization and health · 2024Article
- Investigating the implementation of a novel approach to alcohol screening and brief intervention in Mexico: a mixed-methods study using pseudo-patients.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The development of the Pan American Health Organization digital health specialist on alcohol use.Frontiers in digital health · 2022Article
- Editorial: The evidence and practice-gap of screening and brief interventions for substance misuse.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Addressing complex pharmacy consultations: methods used to develop a person-centred intervention to highlight alcohol within pharmacist reviews of medications.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2021Article
- Reimagining brief interventions for alcohol: towards a paradigm fit for the twenty first century? : INEBRIA Nick Heather Lecture 2019: This lecture celebrates the work of Nick Heather in leading thinking in respect of both brief interventions and wider alcohol sciences.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2021Article
- The Effect of Question Order on Outcomes in the Core Outcome Set for Brief Alcohol Interventions Among Online Help-Seekers: Protocol for a Factorial Randomized Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2020Article
- Capsule Commentary on Satre et al., "Interventions to Reduce Unhealthy Alcohol Use among Primary Care Patients with HIV: the Health and Motivation Randomized Clinical Trial".Journal of general internal medicine · 2019Article
- Brief interventions for alcohol and other drug use.Australian prescriber · 2018Review
- Delivery of alcohol brief interventions in community-based youth work settings: exploring feasibility and acceptability in a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Editorial: Brief Interventions for Risky Drinkers.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2016Article
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Abstract
aimsThis study explores the early development of brief interventions for alcohol using a history of ideas approach with a particular focus on intervention content.
methodsThe source publications of the key primary studies published from approximately 1962 to 1992 were examined, followed by a brief review of the earliest reviews in this field. These studies were placed in the context of developments in alcohol research and in public health.
resultsAfter early pioneering work on brief interventions, further advances were not made until thinking about alcohol problems and their treatment, most notably on controlled drinking, along with wider changes in public health, created new conditions for progress. There was then a golden era of rapid advance in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when preventing the development of problem drinking became important for public health reasons, in addition to helping already problematic drinkers. Many research challenges identified at that time remain to be met. The content of brief interventions changed over the period of study, although not in ways well informed by research advances, and there were also obvious continuities, with a renewed emphasis on the facilitation of self-change being one important consequence of the development of internet applications.
conclusionsIdeas about brief interventions have changed in important ways. Brief interventions have been studied with different populations of drinkers, with aims embracing both individual and population-level perspectives, and without well-specified contents. The brief intervention field is an appropriate target for further historical investigations, which may help thinking about addressing alcohol and other problems.
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