Primary care-based intervention to reduce at-risk drinking in older adults: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To examine whether a multi-faceted intervention among older at-risk drinking primary care patients reduced at-risk drinking and alcohol consumption at 3 and 12 months.

Design

Randomized controlled trial.

Setting

Three primary care sites in southern California.

Participants

Six hundred and thirty-one adults aged ≥ 55 years who were at-risk drinkers identified by the Comorbidity Alcohol Risk Evaluation Tool (CARET) were assigned randomly between October 2004 and April 2007 during an office visit to receive a booklet on healthy behaviors or an intervention including a personalized report, booklet on alcohol and aging, drinking diary, advice from the primary care provider and telephone counseling from a health educator at 2, 4 and 8 weeks.

Measurements

SUBMITTER: Moore AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3059722 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature