Alcohol and injury, as well as brief interventions, are on the list.
How long one brief intervention may affect patients' behavior is unclear.
However, the only patients who showed a differential effect from the brief intervention were precontemplators in the 13- to 17-year-old group.
She added that an in-home, brief intervention linked with primary care found no association between stage of change and outcome.
Whitlock et al., suggest brief behavioral interventions have only a modest impact on health behavior change.
"It's very exciting that such a brief intervention could have such striking effects."
Early identification, screening, and brief intervention for adolescent alcohol use.
I would like to take advantage of this brief intervention to attempt to clear up a kind of misunderstanding.
The empirical support for brief interventions is excellent and does not need further conceptual verification.
A cross national trial of brief interventions with heavy drinkers.