Social Equity in the Efficacy of Computer-Based and In-Person Brief Alcohol Interventions Among General Hospital Patients With At-Risk Alcohol Use: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social equity in the efficacy of behavior change intervention is much needed. While the efficacy of brief alcohol interventions (BAIs), including digital interventions, is well established, particularly in health care, the social equity of interventions has been sparsely investigated.

Objective

We aim to investigate whether the efficacy of computer-based versus in-person delivered BAIs is moderated by the participants' socioeconomic status (ie, to identify whether general hospital patients with low-level education and unemployed patients may benefit more or less from one or the other way of delivery compared to patients with higher levels of education and those that are employed).

Methods

Patients with nondependent at-risk alcohol use were identified throug

SUBMITTER: Freyer-Adam J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8838551 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature