Trial reportJournal of substance abuse treatment2015
A randomized trial of computerized vs. in-person brief intervention for illicit drug use in primary care: outcomes through 12 months.
Trial report in Journal of substance abuse treatment, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 38 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prevalence of Dropout and Influencing Factors in Digital Psychosocial Intervention Trials for Adult Illicit Substance Users: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Evidence for state, community and systems-level prevention strategies to address the opioid crisis.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2019Pooled it
- Technology-Based Alcohol Interventions in Primary Care: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2019Pooled it
- Primary Prevention of Drug Overdoses in Rural Low-Resource and Tribal Communities: A Cluster Randomized Trial.American journal of public health · 2025Trial
- Disease-Tailored Brief Intervention for Alcohol Use Among Youths With Chronic Medical Conditions: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- Computer- vs. nurse practitioner-delivered brief intervention for adolescent marijuana, alcohol, and sex risk behaviors in school-based health centers.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Trial
- Comparing satisfaction, alliance and intervention components in electronically delivered and in-person brief interventions for substance use among childbearing-aged women.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2019Trial
- A randomized controlled trial of screening and brief interventions for substance misuse in reproductive health.American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2018Trial
- Sexual HIV risk behavior outcomes of brief interventions for drug use in an inner-city emergency department: Secondary outcomes from a randomized controlled trial.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2018Trial
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of Brief Intervention by Interactive Voice Response.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2017Trial
- Potential radiating effects of misusing substances among medical patients receiving brief intervention.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2015Trial
- Immediate Versus Delayed Computerized Brief Intervention for Illicit Drug Misuse.Journal of addiction medicineTrial
- Acceptability of screening for substance use among children at Ugandan health facilities.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2026Article
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- Gender and ethnic differences in primary care patients' response to computerized vs. in-person brief intervention for illicit drug misuse.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2018Article
- Cognitive behavioral interventions for alcohol and drug use disorders: Through the stage model and back again.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2017Review
- Prevalence of Substance Use Among Patients of Community Health Centers in East Los Angeles and Tijuana.Substance use & misuse · 2017Observational
- Process evaluation of a technology-delivered screening and brief intervention for substance use in primary care.Internet interventions · 2016Article
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Authors and funding
8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
This study examined outcomes through 12 months from a randomized trial comparing computerized brief intervention (CBI) vs. in-person brief intervention (IBI) delivered by behavioral health counselors for adult community health center patients with moderate-level drug misuse (N=360). Data were collected at baseline, 3-, 6-, and 12-month follow-up, and included the Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) and laboratory analysis of hair samples. Repeated measures analyses examined differential change over time. There were no significant differences in drug-positive hair tests over time or by condition. Global ASSIST scores decreased in both conditions (p<.001), but there were no significant differences between conditions in overall change across 12 months of follow-up (p=.13). CBI produced greater overall reductions in alcohol (p=.04) and cocaine (p=.02) ASSIST scores than IBI, with initial differences dissipating over time. Computerized brief interventions present a viable alternative to traditional in-person brief interventions.
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