OBJECTIVE: The project was designed to compare the effectiveness of brief intervention (BI)
versus simple advice (SA) in the secondary prevention of hazardous alcohol consumption …

Issues. Numerous studies have reported that brief interventions delivered in primary care
are effective in reducing excessive drinking. However, much of this work has been criticised …

Aims: Recommendations for routine alcohol screening and brief counselling intervention in
primary health care rest on results from intervention efficacy studies. By conducting a …

Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of brief interventions in the primary health care
setting to decrease alcohol consumption in non-alcoholic adult drinkers. Method Systematic …

Aim: The study examined the change of primary health care professionals' activity in asking
patients about alcohol and giving advice to heavy drinkers during a 3-year brief intervention …

Background There is strong evidence to support the effectiveness of Brief Intervention (BI) in
reducing alcohol consumption in primary healthcare. Methods and design This study is a …

Objectives. The relative effects of simple advice and brief counseling were evaluated with
heavy drinkers identified in primary care and other health settings in eight countries …

Background. Earlier meta-analyses have not made a distinction between very brief (5-to 20-
min) interventions and extended (several visits) brief interventions. Methods. Literature …

Background Despite the accumulated evidence on the efficacy of brief interventions in
hazardous drinkers some ambiguity remains regarding their differential effectiveness by …

Abstract Background and Aims Low and middle‐income countries (LMIC) have a
disproportionately higher alcohol‐attributable disease burden, in conjunction with a minimal …