Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research
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Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res. · Oct 2011
Randomized Controlled TrialIs brief motivational intervention effective in reducing alcohol use among young men voluntarily receiving it? A randomized controlled trial.
Heavy drinking is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in young men. Brief motivational intervention (BMI) has shown promising results for young people, but has never been tested in young men in the community who volunteered to receive an intervention. ⋯ About 12% of young men were interested in addressing their drinking within the BMI framework, suggesting that there is some need for easily accessible alcohol intervention. The present intervention did have a preventive effect among low-risk young drinkers in helping them maintain their patterns of alcohol use. An explanation for the lack of effectiveness among heavy episodic users might be that those individuals interested in BMI had patterns of more severe alcohol use, thereby making change more difficult.