PMID- 21176233
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110322
LR  - 20240323
IS  - 1471-2458 (Electronic)
IS  - 1471-2458 (Linking)
VI  - 10
DP  - 2010 Dec 22
TI  - Web-based alcohol screening and brief intervention for Maori and non-Maori: the 
      New Zealand e-SBINZ trials.
PG  - 781
LID - 10.1186/1471-2458-10-781 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: Hazardous alcohol consumption is a leading modifiable cause of 
      mortality and morbidity among young people. Screening and brief intervention 
      (SBI) is a key strategy to reduce alcohol-related harm in the community, and 
      web-based approaches (e-SBI) have advantages over practitioner-delivered 
      approaches, being cheaper, more acceptable, administrable remotely and infinitely 
      scalable. An efficacy trial in a university population showed a 10-minute 
      intervention could reduce drinking by 11% for 6 months or more among 17-24 
      year-old undergraduate hazardous drinkers. The e-SBINZ study is designed to 
      examine the effectiveness of e-SBI across a range of universities and among Maori 
      and non-Maori students in New Zealand. METHODS/DESIGN: The e-SBINZ study 
      comprises two parallel, double blind, multi-site, individually randomised 
      controlled trials. This paper outlines the background and design of the trial, 
      which is recruiting 17-24 year-old students from seven of New Zealand's eight 
      universities. Maori and non-Maori students are being sampled separately and are 
      invited by e-mail to complete a web questionnaire including the AUDIT-C. Those 
      who score >4 will be randomly allocated to no further contact until follow-up 
      (control) or to assessment and personalised feedback (intervention) via computer. 
      Follow-up assessment will occur 5 months later in second semester. Recruitment, 
      consent, randomisation, intervention and follow-up are all online. Primary 
      outcomes are (i) total alcohol consumption, (ii) frequency of drinking, (iii) 
      amount consumed per typical drinking occasion, (iv) the proportions exceeding 
      medical guidelines for acute and chronic harm, and (v) scores on an academic 
      problems scale. DISCUSSION: The trial will provide information on the 
      effectiveness of e-SBI in reducing hazardous alcohol consumption across diverse 
      university student populations with separate effect estimates for Maori and 
      non-Maori students. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials 
      Registry (ANZCTR) ACTRN12610000279022.
FAU - Kypri, Kypros
AU  - Kypri K
AD  - Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine and Public 
      Health, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia. 
      Kypros.Kypri@newcastle.edu.au
FAU - McCambridge, Jim
AU  - McCambridge J
FAU - Cunningham, John A
AU  - Cunningham JA
FAU - Vater, Tina
AU  - Vater T
FAU - Bowe, Steve
AU  - Bowe S
FAU - De Graaf, Brandon
AU  - De Graaf B
FAU - Saunders, John B
AU  - Saunders JB
FAU - Dean, Johanna
AU  - Dean J
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Multicenter Study
PT  - Randomized Controlled Trial
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20101222
PL  - England
TA  - BMC Public Health
JT  - BMC public health
JID - 100968562
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Alcohol Drinking/ethnology/*prevention & control
MH  - Double-Blind Method
MH  - *Feedback, Psychological
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Internet
MH  - Male
MH  - *Mass Screening
MH  - New Zealand/epidemiology
MH  - *Population Groups
MH  - Risk-Taking
MH  - *Schools
MH  - Young Adult
PMC - PMC3022854
EDAT- 2010/12/24 06:00
MHDA- 2011/03/23 06:00
PMCR- 2010/12/22
CRDT- 2010/12/24 06:00
PHST- 2010/12/01 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2010/12/22 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2010/12/24 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/12/24 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/03/23 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2010/12/22 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 1471-2458-10-781 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/1471-2458-10-781 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - BMC Public Health. 2010 Dec 22;10:781. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-781.