Brief Intervention for Heavy Drinking in Primary Care

Brief Intervention in Primary Care Settings

Primary health care providers identify and treat many patients who are at risk for or are already experiencing alcohol-related problems. Brief interventions—counseling delivered by primary care providers in the context of several standard office visits—can be a successful treatment approach for many of these patients. Numerous trials involving a variety of patient populations have indicated tha...

Brief intervention for anxiety in primary care patients.

To address the difficulty of assessing and managing multiple anxiety disorders in the primary care setting, this article provides a simple, easy-to-learn, unified approach to the diagnosis, care management, and pharmacotherapy of the 4 most common anxiety disorders found in primary care: panic, generalized anxiety disorders, social anxiety disorders, and posttraumatic stress disorder. This evid...

Prevalence and Brief Intervention of Heavy Drinkers in Primary Health Care

Cultural adaptation of a brief motivational intervention for heavy drinking among Hispanics in a medical setting

BACKGROUND Hispanics, particularly men of Mexican origin, are more likely to engage in heavy drinking and experience alcohol-related problems, but less likely to obtain treatment for alcohol problems than non-Hispanic men. Our previous research indicates that heavy-drinking Hispanics who received a brief motivational intervention (BMI) were significantly more likely than Hispanics receiving sta...

Brief intervention for heavy-drinking college students: 4-year follow-up and natural history.

OBJECTIVES This study examined long-term response to an individual preventive intervention for high-risk college drinkers relative to the natural history of college drinking. METHODS A single-session, individualized preventive intervention was evaluated within a randomized controlled trial with college freshmen who reported drinking heavily while in high school. An additional group randomly s...