@article{ref1,
title="Brief alcohol intervention for general hospital inpatients: a randomized controlled trial",
journal="Drug and alcohol dependence",
year="2008",
author="Freyer-Adam, Jennis and Coder, Beate and Baumeister, Sebastian E. and Bischof, Gallus and Riedel, Jeannette and Paatsch, Karin and Wedler, Barbara and Rumpf, Hans-Jurgen and John, Ulrich and Hapke, Ulfert",
volume="93",
number="3",
pages="233-243",
abstract="AIM: To test the effectiveness of a brief alcohol intervention among non-dependent general hospital inpatients with alcohol problems, delivered by either a specialized liaison service or hospital physicians. METHOD: All inpatients of 29 wards from four general hospitals of one region in Germany were screened for alcohol problems (n=14,332). Of those screening positive, 595 patients were included in a randomized controlled group design using a time-frame. Patients with alcohol dependence were not considered in this study. Patients received Motivational Interviewing based counselling either by a specialized liaison service, by hospital physicians trained under routine conditions or received hospital treatment as usual without additional counselling. One year later, alcohol consumption, motivation and well-being were assessed. Sample survey analyses and generalized estimating equations were conducted. RESULTS: At baseline, the three groups differed regarding motivation, with higher motivation among the controls. At follow-up, the groups did not differ regarding alcohol consumption, alcohol-related problems and well-being. All groups decreased their alcohol consumption significantly. Regarding motivation, longitudinal analyses revealed significant interaction effects of time and intervention (p<0.05), indicating a stronger increase of readiness to change drinking and a less profound drop of readiness to seek help among those who received intervention compared to the controls. CONCLUSION: The intervention was not effective in reducing alcohol consumption or in increasing well-being 12 months after hospitalization. It had a positive effect on readiness to change drinking and on readiness to seek formal help for alcohol problems. The intervention groups compensated their lag of motivation.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0376-8716",
doi="10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2007.09.016",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2007.09.016"
}