INTRODUCTION Indigenous Australians experience a disproportionately high burden of alcohol-related harm. Alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI) offers the potential to reduce this harm if barriers to its delivery in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs) can be optimally targeted. AIMS . Examine health-care practitioners' perceptions of, and practices in, alcohol SBI...

AIMS To determine the acceptability to university students of practitioner-delivered screening and brief intervention (SBI) versus a novel approach-web-based SBI (e-SBI). METHODS A random sample of 1910 university students was invited to indicate their preferences for various brief intervention approaches in an internet survey. RESULTS e-SBI was the most popular intervention. It was favoure...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether there exists a population of Dutch women with a high prevalence of antipolymer antibodies (APA) and severe health complaints/symptoms, and exposure to a silicone breast implant (SBI). As the antigen-specific nature of the antipolymer antibody has not yet been established, we refer to the term polymer binding immunoglobulins. METHODS The study population was sele...

background and purpose: active learning, combined with computer-assisted instruction, can enhance medical students’ performance and learning. this article is an attempt to introduce a new web-based approach to information technology instruction for medical students. methods: eight topics were selected to be instructed in web-based workshops. phpbb forum was used for web-based collaborative lear...

A 20-community randomized controlled trial, the Alcohol Action in Rural Communities (AARC) project, provided the opportunity to examine the cost-effectiveness of screening and brief intervention (SBI) delivered simultaneously in general practice (GP), pharmacy, and emergency department (ED) settings and the community level impact of the SBI on problem drinking. For the GPand pharmacy-delivered ...

BACKGROUND Providing doctors with new research findings or clinical guidelines is rarely sufficient to promote changes in clinical practice. An implementation strategy is required to provide clinicians with the skills and encouragement needed to alter established routines. AIM To evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different training and support strategies in promoting implem...

This presentation addressed cultural considerations and sensitivities particularly relevant to the southern US when providing alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI) to individuals demonstrating risky drinking behavior. Broader implications for education and training were also reviewed. The literature has begun to identify key issues pertaining to cultural sensitivities and consideration...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this hospital-based cohort study was to clarify the independent association between silent brain infarct (SBI) and arterial stiffness indicated by brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) including the cutoff value for SBI. METHODS We studied 240 consecutive patients (mean age 69 years) with no history of stroke. We assessed the presence of SBI, white matter hyperintens...