Brief Physician Advice For High-Risk Drinking Among Young Adults
Open accessAbstract
BACKGROUND: High-risk alcohol use in persons 18 to 30 years of age is a critical public health problem. It is the number 1 cause of death in this population. This article reports the results of a subanalysis of young adults (aged 18 to 30 years) who participated in Project TrEAT (Trial of Early Alcohol Treatment) conducted in the offices of 64 primary care physicians located in 10 counties in southern Wisconsin. METHODS: Project TrEAT was a randomized clinical trial designed to test the efficacy of a brief intervention protocol to reduce alcohol use, improve health status, and decrease health care utilization. A total of 226 young adults were randomly assigned to either a usual care or brief intervention group. RESULTS: There were no significant differences between the 2 groups at baseline on a number of potential confounders. During the 4-year follow-up period, there were significant reductions in number of persons drinking more than 3 drinks per day, average 7-day alcohol use, number of persons drinking 6 or more drinks per occasion, and number of binge drinking episodes in the previous 30 days (P < .01 to P < .001). There were also significant differences (P < .05) in emergency department visits (103 vs 177), motor vehicle crashes (9 vs 20), total motor vehicle events (114 vs 149), and arrests for controlled substance or liquor violation (0 vs 8). CONCLUSION: In this 4-year subanalysis of young adults who participated in Project TrEAT, we found long-term reductions in high-risk drinking behaviors and consequences. The findings of this study support more widespread implementation of brief interventions in primary care settings.
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
A total of 52 studies met our inclusion criteria.
“A total of 52 studies met our inclusion criteria, with three studies presenting different outcomes for the same data and therefore considered as one.35–37”
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
The citation lists haven’t been fetched yet
References 24 · Cited by 69
Research works printed but not linked: 2
- Bertholet N, Daeppen JB, Wietlisbach V, Fleming M, Burnand B. Alcohol brief intervention in primary care: a systematic review. Arch Intern Med, in press.
- Cochran WG, Cox GM. Experimental Design. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Wiley; 1957.
- Authors
- Grossberg, P. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Corresponding author
- Grossberg, P. M.
- Venue
- The Annals of Family Medicine
- Publisher
- Annals of Family Medicine
- Published
- 2004-09-01
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 474-480
- ISSN
- 1544-1709 (ISSN-L)
- 1544-1717
- PMC
- PMC1466715
- OpenAlex
- W2168285523
- Cited by
- 69
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 3.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Annals of Family Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- National Institutes of Health (5r01aa008512-04)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (AA08512-01A)
- 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 › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Keywords
- brief intervention, hazardous drinking, young adults, primary care, binge drinking, alcohol consumption reduction, emergency department visits, traffic accidents, arrests, long-term outcomes
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Alcoholism, Analysis of Variance, Counseling, Family Practice, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Male, Mass Screening, Patient Education as Topic, Risk-Taking, Wisconsin
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
