MedTrace Logo

Brief Intervention for Heavy Drinkers

NCT00728767 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 772

Last updated 2011-04-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine whether a brief intervention (a short conversation build on the principles of motivational interviewing) is effective in lowering self reported alcohol use in heavy drinkers.

Conditions

  • Alcohol Abuse

Interventions

OTHER

Brief intervention

The intervention consists of a brief conversation based on the principles of motivational interviewing, including Rollnicks scales to assess the motivation and importance for change. The intervention has duration of about 10 minutes and qualifies as a hybrid between a minimal intervention and a brief intervention. The intervention also consists of two leaflets ('Good advice about drinking less' and 'Learn more about alcohol') on the harmful in having an alcohol above recommended limits, and a sheet about local alcohol treatment possibilities. The Intervention group is also offered a brief telephone follow up call 4 weeks later. The purpose of this is to maintain the participant's motivation to reduce drinking. Employees had been instructed to ask these questions during the intervention: "What are you already doing to restrain your drinking?" And "What can you do more?"

OTHER

Control group

The intervention consists of two leaflets ('Good advice about drinking less' and 'Learn more about alcohol') on the harmful in having an alcohol use above the recommended limits, and a sheet about local alcohol treatment possibilities.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Board of Health, Denmark

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • University of Southern Denmark

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Anders B. Gottlieb Hansen, cand.techn.soc · University of Southern Denmark, National Institute of Public Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-01-31
Primary Completion
2008-11-30
Completion
2009-12-31

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

More Related Trials

Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT00728767 on ClinicalTrials.gov