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Citation

Rodriguez-Martos A, Santamarina E, Torralba L, Escayola M, Marti J, Plasencia A. Gac. Sanit. 2005; 19(1): 45-49.

Vernacular Title

Efectividad a corto plazo de las intervenciones breves realizadas en pacientes

Affiliation

Agencia de Salut Publica, Barcelona, Spain. amartos@aspb.es

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

15745668

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the effectiveness of brief interventions to reduce alcohol intake in traffic casualties with a positive blood alcohol concentration. METHODS: Nine hundred forty-eight eligible casualties (97.6% of eligible casualties within a universe of 1106) were screened for alcohol and 126 (13.3%) were identified as positive. Interventions were performed in 85, randomly allocated to a minimal intervention (simple advice) or a brief intervention (motivational intervention). Telephone follow-up was scheduled for months 3, 6 and 12. The present study reports the results of follow-up at month 3. RESULTS: Fifty-seven patients (67%) were followed up at month 3. A total of 73.7% had reduced their alcohol intake and this percentage was greater in the group who underwent the brief intervention (p = 0.06; effect size 0.5) and among heavy drinkers (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: The data indicate the effectiveness of the brief intervention, although the sample size does not allow definitive conclusions to be drawn.


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