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, A., Weiss, H. A., Weobong, B., McDaid, D.
, Singla, D. R., Park, A., Bhat, B., Katti, B., McCambridge, J., Murthy, P., +6 more...King, M., Wilson, G. T., Kirkwood, B., Fairburn, C. G., Velleman, R. & Patel, V.
(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.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002386
, Singla, D. R., Park, A., Bhat, B., Katti, B., McCambridge, J., Murthy, P., +6 more...King, M., Wilson, G. T., Kirkwood, B., Fairburn, C. G., Velleman, R. & Patel, V.
(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.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002386
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.
