The effectiveness of a brief intervention for intensive care unit patients with hazardous alcohol use: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Screening for hazardous alcohol use and performing brief interventions (BIs) are recommended to reduce alcohol-related negative health consequences. We aimed to compare the effectiveness (defined as an at least 10% absolute difference) of BI with usual care in reducing alcohol intake in intensive care unit survivors with history of hazardous alcohol use.

Methods

We used Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test-Consumption (AUDIT-C) score to assess history of alcohol use.

Patients

Emergency admitted adult ICU patients in three Finnish university hospitals, with an AUDIT-C score > 5 (women), or > 6 (men). We randomized consenting eligible patients to receive a BI or treatment as usual (TAU).

Intervention

BI was delivered by the time of ICU discharge or

SUBMITTER: Nissila E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11061909 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature