Title |
The efficacy of a brief intervention in reducing hazardous drinking in working age men in Russia: the HIM (Health for Izhevsk men) individually randomised parallel group exploratory trial
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Published in |
Trials, November 2011
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DOI | 10.1186/1745-6215-12-238 |
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Authors |
Elizabeth Allen, Olga Polikina, Lyudmila Saburova, Jim McCambridge, Diana Elbourne, Sergey Pakriev, Nadezhda Nekrasova, Maxim Vasilyev, Keith Tomlin, Alexey Oralov, Artyom Gil, Martin McKee, Nikolay Kiryanov, David A Leon |
Abstract |
Russia has particularly low life expectancy for an industrialised country, with mortality at working ages having fluctuated dramatically over the past few decades, particularly among men. Alcohol has been identified as the most likely cause of these temporal variations. One approach to reducing the alcohol problem in Russia is 'brief interventions' which seek to change views of the personal acceptability of excessive drinking and to encourage self-directed behaviour change. Very few studies to evaluate the efficacy of brief interventions in Russia have been conducted. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a person-centred counselling style which can be adapted to brief interventions in which help is offered in thinking through behaviour in the context of values and goals, to decide whether change is needed, and if so, how it may best be achieved. |
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