Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research
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Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res. · Oct 2007
Randomized Controlled TrialTreatment completion in a brief motivational intervention in the emergency department: the effect of multiple interventions and therapists' behavior.
The aim of this study was to identify therapist behaviors during a brief motivational intervention (BMI) given to injured emergency department patients that predicted participant return for a second BMI session and 12-month alcohol-related outcomes. ⋯ The results of these secondary analyses show that compliance with a 2-session therapeutic intervention (BIB) predicted fewer negative alcohol-related consequences, and that therapists' supportive emotional emphasis during the first BMI session was important in predicting participants returning for the second MI session.