A randomized clinical trial of mobile phone motivational interviewing for alcohol use problems in Kenya.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To test the effectiveness of a motivational interviewing (MI) intervention using the mobile phone among adults with alcohol use problems.

Design

A randomized clinical trial of mobile MI and standard in-person MI with 1- and 6-month follow-up, including a 1-month waitlist control followed by mobile MI.

Setting

A primary health center in rural Kenya.

Participants

Three hundred adults screening positive for alcohol use problems were randomized and received immediate mobile MI (n = 89), in-person MI (n = 65) or delayed mobile MI (n = 76) for waiting-list controls 1 month after no treatment, with 70 unable to be reached for intervention.

Intervention and comparator

One MI session was provided either immediately by mobile phone, in-person at the health cen

SUBMITTER: Harder VS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8353663 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature