Tobutt, Clive and Milani, Raffaella Margherita ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1683-2410 (2010) Comparing two counselling styles for hazardous drinkers charged with alcohol-related offences in a police custody suite: piloting motivational interviewing brief intervention or a standard brief intervention to reduce alcohol consumption. Advances in Dual Diagnosis, 3 (4). pp. 20-33. ISSN 1757-0972

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Abstract

The aim of this randomised intervention study was to test the use of two counselling styles in reducing alcohol
consumption in offenders who were hazardous drinkers and who had been charged with alcohol-related
offences. An additional aim was to evaluate the research process itself before embarking on a larger trial.
Participants were recruited from a police custody suite in the south east of England and randomised to receive
either a motivational interviewing brief intervention (MIBI) or a standard brief intervention (BI). The Alcohol Use
Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) was used to screen offenders for hazardous drinking. Participants were
asked to complete a second AUDIT 12 weeks later. Two hundred offenders with alcohol-related offences were screened over a 10-month period. Of these, 182 were alcohol dependent and were therefore excluded from the study. Of the 18 who were eligible to enter the study, six refused to participate. Five were randomised to the MIBI group and seven into the BI group (BI). The mean age of the MIBI group was 25 (SD±3.86) years and the mean age of the BI group was 32.4 (SD±7.9). Audit scores were significantly lower at time 2 compared to time 1 for both intervention groups (t(11) = 17.60; p < 0.05). There was no significant difference between the different intervention groups.

Item Type:	Article
Identifier:	10.5042/add.2011.0189
Additional Information:	© Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010
Keywords:	Alcohol, Motivational interviewing, Brief intervention, Hazardous drinking, Drinking outcomes
Subjects:	Medicine and health > Mental health Psychology > Substance abuse/misuse Psychology
Depositing User:	Raffaella Margherita Milani
Date Deposited:	12 May 2016 16:13
Last Modified:	06 Feb 2024 15:44
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/2054

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