Background Interventions to reduce excessive alcohol consumption have a small but
important effect, but a better understanding is needed of their 'active ingredients'. Aims This …

Objective: This study examines the impact of marketing strategies on the dissemination of a
brief alcohol intervention program to general practitioners (GPs). The marketing strategy was …

Primary care interventions directed at drinking and alcohol problems today constitute a
highly important issue for service development, training and research. WHO has done much …

Background Systematic reviews of alcohol screening and brief interventions (ASBI) highlight
the challenges of implementation in healthcare and community-based settings. Fewer …

Aims and objectives. The purpose of this paper is to explore the literature on brief alcohol
intervention and to review the literature that examines the status of the clinic nurse in the …

Background Brief motivational intervention (BMI) has shown promising results to reduce
alcohol use in young adults. Knowledge on mechanisms that predict BMI efficacy could …

Widely disseminated brief interventions against excessive drinking, as part of the new public
health movement, have a potentially crucial role in reducing alcohol-related harm on a …

Aims: The qualitative component of this mixed methods study aimed at obtaining more in-
depth information about the barriers of implementation of screening and brief interventions …

How can we change a particular behaviour most effectively--such as reducing alcohol
consumption? A behavioural scientist trying to answer this question would probably …

Background: The robust evidence base for the effectiveness of alcohol screening and brief
interventions (ASBIs) in primary health care (PHC) suggests that a widespread expansion of …