None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
This study aims to evaluate whether mailing personalised feedback to problem drinking patients from rural emergency departments reduces their alcohol consumption, experience of alcohol-related harm, and/or repeat use of emergency departments.
Interventions
The intervention comprises screening for alcohol problems followed by written personalised feedback regarding alcohol consumption delivered to participants in the mail. Emergency Department (ED) staff invite eligible patients to participate in a phone survey regarding their alcohol consumption. The principal investigator contacts consenting patients and administers the screening questionnaire, which consists of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). The written personalised feedb
The intervention comprises screening for alcohol problems followed by written personalised feedback regarding alcohol consumption delivered to participants in the mail. Emergency Department (ED) staff invite eligible patients to participate in a phone survey regarding their alcohol consumption. The principal investigator contacts consenting patients and administers the screening questionnaire, which consists of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). The written personalised feedback presents the participant's responses on the AUDIT items relative to normative data from residents of the same rural communities. This feedback is mailed to participants on a single occasion approximately 1 week after he/she completes the screening questionnaire.
Sponsors
University of New South Wales, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Blinded (masking used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
14 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Patients aged 14 years and older who present to one of 5 emergency departments in rural NSW, who screen at-risk for alcohol problems (8 or more on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test).
Exclusion criteria
No mailing address in Australia
Outcome results
None listed