Sustained effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Counselling for alcohol problems, a brief psychological treatment for harmful drinking in men, delivered by lay counsellors in primary care: twelve-month follow-up of a randomised controlled trial

Nadkarni, Abhijit, Weiss, Helen A., Weobong, Benedict, McDaid, David ORCID: 0000-0003-0744-2664, Singla, Daisy R., Park, A-La ORCID: 0000-0002-4704-4874, Bhat, Bhargav, Katti, Basavaraj, McCambridge, Jim, Murthy, Pratima, King, Michael, Wilson, G. Terence, Kirkwood, Betty, Fairburn, Christopher G., Velleman, Richard and Patel, Vikram (2017) Sustained effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Counselling for alcohol problems, a brief psychological treatment for harmful drinking in men, delivered by lay counsellors in primary care: twelve-month follow-up of a randomised controlled trial. PLoS Medicine, 14 (9). e1002386. ISSN 1549-1277

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Abstract

Counselling for Alcohol Problems (CAP), a brief intervention delivered by lay counsellors, enhanced remission and abstinence over 3 months among primary care male attendees with harmful drinking in a setting in India. We evaluate the sustainability of the effects after treatment termination, the cost-effectiveness of CAP over 12 months, and the effects of the hypothesized mediator of ‘readiness to change’ on clinical outcomes.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/
Additional Information:	© 2017 The Authors © CC BY 4.0
Divisions:	Care Policy and Evaluation Centre
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Date Deposited:	23 Aug 2017 08:20
Last Modified:	29 Sep 2025 06:06
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/84076

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