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

; Bhat, Bhargav; Katti, Basavaraj; McCambridge, Jim; Murthy, Pratima; +6 more...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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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
Departments	Care Policy and Evaluation Centre
DOI	10.1371/journal.pmed.1002386
Date Deposited	23 Aug 2017 08:20
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/84076