Trial reportAnnals of emergency medicine2016
A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Telephone Intervention for Alcohol Misuse With Injured Emergency Department Patients.
Trial report in Annals of emergency medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- Self-Report Survey Measures of Alcohol-Impaired Driving: A Systematic Review.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2023Pooled it
- Effectiveness of brief alcohol interventions in primary care populations.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Effectiveness of SBIRT for Alcohol Use Disorders in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2017Pooled it
- A pragmatic randomised trial of two counselling models at the Swedish national alcohol helpline.BMC psychiatry · 2019Trial
- Examining motor vehicle crash involvement and readiness to change on drinking and driving behaviors among injured emergency department patients.Traffic injury prevention · 2017Trial
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- Effectiveness of brief motivational interviewing for alcohol misuse: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.Addictive behaviors reports · 2026Review
- Emergency Department Patients are Receptive to Prayer-Based Interventions to Reduce Alcohol Use.Journal of religion and health · 2020Article
- Telehealth interventions to reduce alcohol use in men with HIV who have sex with men: Protocol for a factorial randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2019Article
- The association between medical comorbidity and Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures of treatment initiation and engagement for alcohol and other drug use disorders.Substance abuse · 2019Article
- 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
- Cross-Sectional Study of Risky Substance Use by Injured Emergency Department Patients.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2017Observational
- Minimizing Attrition for Multisite Emergency Care Research.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2017Article
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Authors and funding
6 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
STUDY
objectiveWe conduct a randomized controlled trial to test efficacy of a telephone intervention for injured emergency department (ED) patients with alcohol misuse to decrease alcohol use, impaired driving, alcohol-related injuries, and alcohol-related negative consequences.
methodsED patients screening positive for alcohol misuse were randomized to a 3-session telephone brief motivational intervention on alcohol, delivered by a counselor trained in motivational interviewing during 6 weeks, or a control intervention of a scripted home fire and burn safety education delivered in 3 calls. Patients were followed for 12 months and assessed for changes in alcohol use, impaired driving, alcohol-related injuries, and alcohol-related negative consequences.
resultsSeven hundred thirty ED patients were randomized; 78% received their assigned intervention by telephone, and of those, 72% completed 12-month assessments. There were no differential benefits of telephone brief motivational intervention versus assessment and a control intervention in all 3 variables of alcohol use (frequency of binge alcohol use during the previous 30 days, maximum number of drinks at one time in the past 30 days, and typical alcohol use in the past 30 days), alcohol-impaired driving, alcohol-related injuries, and alcohol-related negative consequences.
conclusionDespite the potential advantage of delivering a telephone brief motivational intervention in not disrupting ED clinical care, our study found no efficacy for it over an assessment and control intervention. Potential causes for our finding include that injury itself, alcohol assessments, or the control intervention had active ingredients for alcohol change.
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