Trial reportAlcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire)2015
Screening and brief intervention for substance misuse: Does it reduce aggression and HIV-related risk behaviours?
Trial report in Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Motivational interviewing for substance use reduction.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Psychosocial and pharmacologic interventions to reduce harmful alcohol use in low- and middle-income countries.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Patient-level interventions to reduce alcohol-related harms in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-summary.PLoS medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Drug Use Disorders and Violence: Associations With Individual Drug Categories.Epidemiologic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- The Role of Affect Management for HIV Risk Reduction for Youth in Alternative Schools.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2017Trial
- Navigating alcohol's impact: A mixed-methods analysis of community perceptions and consequences in Northern Tanzania.PloS one · 2025Article
- A scoping review of substance use brief interventions in Africa.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Closing the treatment gap for alcohol use disorders in low- and middle-income countries.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2023Review
- Gender and Context Matter: Behavioral and Structural Interventions for People Who Use Alcohol and Other Drugs in Africa.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Missed opportunity for alcohol use disorder screening and management in primary health care facilities in northern rural Tanzania: a cross-sectional survey.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2022Article
- Integration of Alcohol Use Disorder Interventions in General Health Care Settings in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
purposeTo explore whether reducing substance misuse through a brief motivational intervention also reduces aggression and HIV risk behaviours.
methodsParticipants were enrolled in a randomized controlled trial in primary care if they screened positive for substance misuse. Substance misuse was assessed using the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test; aggression, using a modified version of the Explicit Aggression Scale; and HIV risk, through a count of common risk behaviours. The intervention was received on the day of the baseline interview, with a 3-month follow-up.
resultsParticipants who received the intervention were significantly more likely to reduce their alcohol use than those who did not; no effect was identified for other substances. In addition, participants who reduced substance misuse (whether as an effect of the intervention or not) also reduced aggression but not HIV risk behaviours.
conclusionsReducing substance misuse through any means reduces aggression; other interventions are needed for HIV risk reduction.
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