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Evaluation of a workplace brief intervention for excessive alcohol consumption: the workscreen project.
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It is indicated that a workplace-based lifestyle campaign can assist self-selected employees in reducing their alcohol consumption and there was a moderately high level of participation among those identified as drinking excessively, which supports the approach of embedding a low-intensity alcohol program within the context of a broader health promotion campaign.About:
This article is published in Preventive Medicine.The article was published on 2000-01-01. It has received 67 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Brief intervention & Poison control.read more
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Design and analysis of group-randomized trials: a review of recent practices.
TL;DR: Increased vigilance is needed to ensure that appropriate methods for GRTs are employed and that results based on inappropriate methods are not published.
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Tackling harmful alcohol use: economics and public health policy.
TL;DR: Implementing a broad range of alcohol policies at national level will make it possible to achieve WHO’s global NCD target of reducing harmful alcohol use by 10% by 2025.
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A systematic review of work-place interventions for alcohol-related problems
TL;DR: It appears from the evidence that brief interventions, interventions contained within health and life-style checks, psychosocial skills training and peer referral have potential to produce beneficial results.
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Prevention Interventions of Alcohol Problems in the Workplace: A Review and Guiding Framework
TL;DR: The workplace offers advantages as a setting for interventions that result in primary prevention of alcohol abuse, and programs have the potential to reach broad audiences and populations that would otherwise not receive prevention programs and, thereby, benefit both the employee and employer.
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Health Promotion Trials at Worksites and Risk Factors for Cancer
TL;DR: The overall evidence indicates a modest but positive effect of health promotion trials at worksites and the effect, for smoking cessation trials, is slightly larger than that of community-based trials.
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Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People to Change Addictive Behavior
TL;DR: The second edition of the Motivational Interviewing (MI) has been published by as mentioned in this paper, which includes 25 nearly all-new chapters, including guidelines for using their approach with a variety of clinical populations and reflect on the process of learning MI.
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Diffusion of Innovations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the history of diffusion, some major criticisms of diffusion research, and the meta-research procedures used in the book, which is the third edition of this well-known work.
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Brief Physician Advice for Problem Alcohol Drinkers A Randomized Controlled Trial in Community-Based Primary Care Practices
TL;DR: This study provides the first direct evidence that physician intervention with problem drinkers decreases alcohol use and health resource utilization in the US health care system.
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Randomised controlled trial of general practitioner intervention in patients with excessive alcohol consumption.
TL;DR: If the results of this study were applied to the United Kingdom intervention by general practitioners could each year reduce to moderate levels the alcohol consumption of some 250000 men and 67500 women who currently drink to excess.