@article{ref1,
title="Secondary prevention of hazardous alcohol consumption in psychiatric out-patients: a randomised controlled study",
journal="Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology",
year="2009",
author="Eberhard, Sophia and Nordstrom, G. and Höglund, Pontus and Ojehagen, A.",
volume="44",
number="12",
pages="1013-1021",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Hazardous alcohol use is associated with an increased risk for development of a substance use disorder, leading to negative outcomes in psychiatric patients. AIMS: In order to investigate whether psychiatric outpatients' hazardous alcohol consumption could be reduced by way of a brief intervention by telephone. METHOD: Non-psychotic psychiatric outpatients, n = 1,670, completed a self-rating form concerning alcohol habits (AUDIT). Participants with scores indicating risk consumption (n = 344) were randomised to intervention (immediate advice) or control (advice after 6 months). RESULTS: Hazardous alcohol habits occurred among 19% of the women and 24% of the men. In the intervention group, half of the patients reduced their alcohol consumption to non-hazardous levels at 6-month follow-up (ITT analysis). In women, 41.5% in the intervention group had no hazardous consumption at follow-up compared to 24.7% in the control group (P = 0.003), corresponding figure for men was 49.1 and 34.0%. CONCLUSION: Brief intervention seems to be effective to reduce hazardous alcohol consumption in psychiatric outpatients.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0933-7954",
doi="10.1007/s00127-009-0023-7",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-009-0023-7"
}