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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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Effectiveness of brief alcohol interventions in primary care populations
Eileen Kaner,Fiona Beyer,Colin Muirhead,Fiona Campbell,Elizabeth D Pienaar,Nicolas Bertholet,Jean B. Daeppen,John B. Saunders,Bernard Burnand +8 more
TL;DR: Brief interventions consistently produced reductions in alcohol consumption, and the effect was clear in men at one year of follow up, but unproven in women.
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Brief interventions for excessive drinkers in primary health care settings
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Alcohol in the European Union: Consumption, Harm and Policy Approaches
TL;DR: This report presents the latest literature overview of effective alcohol policies, and includes data from the European Union, Norway and Switzerland in the areas of alcohol consumption, harm and policy approaches.
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A systematic review of selected interventions for worksite health promotion: the assessment of health risks with feedback
Robin E. Soler,Kimberly D. Leeks,Sima Razi,David S. P. Hopkins,Matt Griffith,Adam Aten,Sajal Chattopadhyay,Susan C. Smith,Nancy Habarta,Ron Z. Goetzel,Nicolaas P. Pronk,Dennis E. Richling,Deborah R. Bauer,Leigh Ramsey Buchanan,Curtis S. Florence,Lisa M. Koonin,Debbie MacLean,Abby Rosenthal,Dyann Matson Koffman,James V. Grizzell,Andrew Walker +20 more
TL;DR: The results of these reviews indicate that AHRF is useful as a gateway intervention to a broader worksite health promotion program that includes health education lasting > or =1 hour or repeating multiple times during 1 year, and that may include an array of health promotion activities.
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Meta-analysis of the Effects of Health Promotion Intervention in the Workplace on Depression and Anxiety Symptoms
TL;DR: When the aim is to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety in employee populations, a broad range of health promotion interventions appear to be effective, although the effect is small.
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Mechanisms in Multiple Risk Factor Interventions: Smoking, Physical-Activity, and Dietary-Fat Intake Among Manufacturing Workers
TL;DR: The results suggest that smokers are a particularly important target for health promotion interventions, and it may be possible to make initial contact with them through other health programs at the worksite, as well as mediators such as motivation for change.
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Participation in Worksite Health Promotion: A Critique of the Literature and Recommendations for Future Practice
TL;DR: It is concluded that participation is both an important process measure and an outcome that should be reported routinely and has important implications for generalizability of results, feasibility of interventions, and health outcomes.
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The effect of general practitioners' advice to heavy drinking men.
Peter J. Anderson,Eileen Scott +1 more
TL;DR: At one year follow-up, the treatment group had reduced their consumption by an excess of 65 grams of alcohol per week when compared with the control group (p less than 0.05).
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The effects of a health promotion-health protection intervention on behavior change: the WellWorks Study.
Glorian Sorensen,Anne M. Stoddard,Mary Kay Hunt,James R. Hébert,Judith K. Ockene,Jill Spitz Avrunin,Jay S. Himmelstein,S. K. Hammond +7 more
TL;DR: The effects of a 2-year integrated health promotion-health protection work-site intervention on changes in dietary habits and cigarette smoking are modest and could have a large impact on cancer-related and coronary heart disease end points.
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Controlled evaluation of a general practice-based brief intervention for excessive drinking
TL;DR: The Alcoholscreen Program did not result in a significantly greater reduction in consumption at follow-up than control conditions but patients offered Alcoholscreen reported a significantly great reduction in alcohol-related problems in the period to 6 months follow- up.