Brief motivational intervention for adolescents treated in emergency departments for acute alcohol intoxication - a randomized-controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Alcohol misuse among youth is a major public health concern and numbers of adolescents admitted to the emergency department for acute alcoholic intoxication in Germany are recently growing. The emergency setting offers an opportunity to reach at-risk alcohol consuming adolescents and provide brief interventions in a potential "teachable moment". However, studies on brief interventions targeting adolescents in emergency care are scarce and little is known about their effectiveness when delivered immediately following hospitalization for acute alcohol intoxication. In this protocol we present the HaLT-Hamburg trial evaluating a brief motivational intervention for adolescents treated in the emergency department after an episode of acute alcoholic intoxication.

Methods

SUBMITTER: Diestelkamp S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4107616 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature