Brief alcohol intervention and alcohol assessment do not influence alcohol use in injured patients treated in the emergency department: a randomized controlled clinical trial.
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Aims To evaluate the effectiveness of brief alcohol intervention (BAI) in reducing alcohol use among hazardous drinkers treated in the emergency department (ED) after an injury; in addition it tests whether assessment of alcohol use without BAI is sufficient to reduce hazardous drinking. Design Randomized controlled clinical trial with 12-month follow-up conducted between January 2003 and June 2005. Setting Urban academic emergency department (ED) of the Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland. Participants A total of 5136 consecutive patients attending ED after an injury completed a seven-item general and a three-item alcohol screen and 1472 (28.7%) were positive for hazardous drinking according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Addiction definition; of these 987 (67.1%) were randomized into a BAI group (n = 310) or a control group with screening and assessment (n = 342) or a control group with screening only (n = 335) and then a total of 770 patients (78.0%) completed the 12-month follow-up procedures. Intervention A single 10-15-minute session of standardized BAI conducted by a trained research assistant. Measurements Percentage of participants who have changed to low-risk drinking at follow-up. Findings Data obtained at 12 months indicated that similar proportions were low-risk drinkers in BAI versus control groups with and without assessment (35.6%, 34.0%, 37.0%, respectively, P = 0.71). Data also indicated similar reductions in drinking frequenc…
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- Authors
- Daeppen, J., Gaume, J., Bady, P., Yersin, B., Calmes, J., Givel, J., & Gmel, G.
- Affiliations
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Daeppen, Jean‐Bernard
- Venue
- Addiction
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2007-07-06
- Volume
- 102
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1224-1233
- ISSN
- 0965-2140 (ISSN-L)
- 1360-0443
- OpenAlex
- W1970760397
- Cited by
- 144
- References
- 5
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- FWCI
- 9.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- erratum (2007-11-19)
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Addiction (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- IRIS (submittedVersion)
- SERVAL (Université de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pathology and Forensic Medicine › Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Emergency Medicine › Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Keywords
- brief alcohol intervention, hazardous drinking, alcohol screening, emergency department, trauma patients, alcoholism, binge drinking, low-risk drinking, health resource utilization, injury severity
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Alcohol Drinking, Emergency Service, Hospital, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Interviews as Topic, Male, Middle Aged, Switzerland, Wounds and Injuries
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