Background Brief interventions involve a time‐limited intervention focusing on changing
behaviour. They are often motivational in nature using counselling skills to encourage a …

Background: The control and management of many oral health conditions highly depend on
one's daily self‐care practice and compliance to preventive and curative measures …

Background The dental care setting is an appropriate place to deliver dietary assessment
and advice as part of patient management. However, we do not know whether this is …

Aim To systematically assess the efficacy of oral health behaviour change counselling for
tobacco use cessation (TUC) and the promotion of healthy lifestyles. Materials and Methods …

Aim The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of nurse‐conducted brief interventions
in reducing alcohol consumption, by looking at with treatment as usual compared with other …

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of three interventions (individual
motivational interviewing, group motivational interviewing, or nurse-led hepatitis health …

Alcohol is a very widely used drug which can cause dental disease and influence dental
treatment. It is therefore important that dental professionals take an alcohol history from all …

BACKGROUND: Nurses are in key positions to reduce the global burden associated with
alcohol, yet many are ill-prepared to screen for alcohol use and intervene accordingly. The …

Purpose Facial trauma is a frequent presentation to the emergency department following
alcohol-related injuries. Brief alcohol intervention (BAI) is a form of a motivational interview …

Study objective We adopt a comparative framework to measure the extent to which variance
in the efficacy of alcohol brief interventions to reduce hazardous and harmful drinking at less …