Alcohol use disorders
Conditions
Interventions
Brief intervention proposed by the WHO for hazardous and harmful alcohol use has been adapted by the principal investigator, to Sri Lanka to be used by the health care workers and by volunteers. This
Sponsors
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya
Australian National University
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: The male patients who are =/> 18 years presenting to the out-patient department of Teaching Hospital Peradeniya, who score >4 for AUDIT-C will be eligible to participate in the study.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: If a patient has at least one of the following criteria, he will be For the Pilot study the follow up period will be 26 weeks. excluded from the study. 1. The patients who have ongoing serious physical or mental illness, making them incapable of following the directions given 2. The patients who are already on therapy/ intervention to reduce alcohol related harms. 3. The patients who choose to go for specialized psychiatry care due to the severity of their ARPs (Others in this category will be chosen since BI could be helpful in some such patients (WHO, 2017) 4. If the patient has been recruited in the current study on a previous occasion 5. Patients who are not able to communicate adequately in Sinhala.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Measuring acceptability of the ABI to the patient: 1.The questionnaire which was used in the previous pilot study (SLCTR/2022/027) by the investigators of the current study to assess participant satisfaction and acceptability of the ABI using several domains; content, setting, qualities of the individual who delivers the intervention, attitude and perceived effectiveness towards ABI will be used (Attached in the email). [ At the recruitment and at 4, 12 and 26 weeks ] Measuring acceptability of the ABI to the RAs: The questionnaire used in the previous pilot study (SLCTR/2022/027) by the investigators of the current study to get the feedback from the RAs will be used. It assesses the training they received on alcohol and the study before the commencement of the study, their perception of how the patient receives the brief intervention, how confident they felt when talking to the patient, length of the session, what they like/ dislike about the brief intervention and comments to improve (Attached in the email). [ At the recruitment and at 4, 12 and 26 weeks ] Measuring feasibility of the study: This will be determined by the rate at which the patients can be recruited into the study as well as from the rates at which the patients and the family members would attend the follow-up visits [ At the recruitment and at 4, 12 and 26 weeks ] | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| None [] | — |
Countries
Sri Lanka
Contacts
Public ContactDewasmika Ariyasinghe
Professor in Psychiatry
Outcome results
None listed