Change talk subtypes as predictors of alcohol use following brief motivational intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the relative importance of client change language subtypes as predictors of alcohol use following motivational interviewing (MI).

Method

Participants were 164 heavy drinkers (57.3% female, M_age = 28.5 years, 13.4% Hispanic/Latinx, 82.9% White) recruited during an emergency department visit who received MI for alcohol and human immunodeficiency virus/sexual risk in a randomized-controlled trial. MI sessions were coded with the motivational interviewing skill code (MISC) and the generalized behavioral intervention analysis system (GBIAS). Variable importance analyses used targeted maximum likelihood estimation to rank order change language subtypes defined by these systems as predictors of alcohol use over 9 months of follow-up.

Result

SUBMITTER: Kahler CW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10225014 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature