For more than 30 years, there have been concerted efforts internationally to develop the evidence base for brief interventions in general practice [1].The choice of this setting reflected strategic judgements about where in health systems heavy drinking and alcohol problems were likely to be most encountered and thus where these interventions may be optimally delivered. This literature is usual...

BACKGROUND Reductions in drinking among individuals randomised to control groups in brief alcohol intervention trials are common and suggest that asking study participants about their drinking may itself cause them to reduce their consumption. We sought to test the hypothesis that the statistical artefact regression to the mean (RTM) explains part of the reduction in such studies. METHODS 967...

AIM To explore the feasibility and cost effectiveness of screening and delivery of a brief intervention for hazardous drinking employees. METHODS A pilot randomised controlled trial of a brief intervention delivered by an Occupational Health nurse versus no delivery of brief intervention (control group) conducted in a Local Authority Council (LCA) in the United Kingdom. Changes in quality of ...

Patients' insight has a critical role in the recovery from problematic behavior. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of a brief intervention to promote insight among alcohol-dependent patients. A total of 41 alcohol-dependent patients (30 males, 11 females) in an insight-deficient state who had been admitted to a community-based alcohol treatment center, were randomized into two g...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of alcohol consumption and the effectiveness of the alcohol, smoking, and substance involvement screening test (ASSIST)-linked brief intervention on hazardous and harmful alcohol use in semirural settings in Nigeria. METHODS In this single arm non-randomized intervention study delivered by community health extension workers (CHEW), participants (N = 1,203...

BACKGROUND Screening for alcohol consumption in adolescents is widely justified in the health care field because of the particular vulnerability of this population, which starts drinking alcohol at a very early age and frequently consumes high levels of the same. Hospital emergency departments (ED) could be a good venue to manage early detection and carry out brief intervention (BI) programmes....

This article summarizes a panel discussion on "SBIRT in the emergency care setting: are we ready to take it to scale?" Dr. Edward Bernstein commented on the historical developments of emergency department (ED) screening, brief intervention (BI), and referral to treatment (SBIRT) research, practice, and knowledge translation. Dr. Jack Stein addressed SBIRT grant program progress to date, the rei...

1 Grup de Recerca en Addiccions Clínic (GRAC-GRE), Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Red de Trastornos adictivos (RETICS), Barcelona, Spain, 2 Grup de Recerca en Addiccions Clínic (GRAC-GRE), Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Fundació Clínic per la Recerca Biomèdica, Red de Trastornos adictivos (RETICS), Barcelona, Spain, 3 Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK, ...