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Brief intervention for alcohol misuse in people attending sexual health clinics: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Sanatinia, R; Barrett, B; Byford, S; Dean, M; Green, J; Jones, R; Leurent, B; ... Crawford, MJ; + view all (2012) Brief intervention for alcohol misuse in people attending sexual health clinics: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials , 13 , Article 149. 10.1186/1745-6215-13-149. Green open access

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Abstract

Over the last 30  years the number of people who drink alcohol at harmful levels has increased in many countries. There have also been large increases in rates of sexually transmitted infections. Available evidence suggests that excessive alcohol consumption and poor sexual health may be linked. The prevalence of harmful alcohol use is higher among people attending sexual health clinics than in the general population, and a third of those attending clinics state that alcohol use affects whether they have unprotected sex. Previous research has demonstrated that brief intervention for alcohol misuse in other medical settings can lead to behavioral change, but the clinical- and cost-effectiveness of this intervention on sexual behavior have not been examined.

Type: Article
Title: Brief intervention for alcohol misuse in people attending sexual health clinics: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-13-149
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-13-149
Language: English
Additional information: © 2012 Sanatinia et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. PMCID: PMC3482149
Keywords: Alcoholism, Clinical Protocols, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Humans, Reproductive Health, Sample Size, Single-Blind Method
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1377176
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