Effectiveness of Brief Intervention for Alcohol Use: a Randomized Trial

Alcohol misuse is related to various issues in the workplace context, such as workplace accidents, absenteeism, conflicts, and stress. This work aims to assess the effects of brief intervention (BI) on alcohol-related issues use in the university workplace environment. The method consisted of a controlled, randomized clinical trial with an experimental design, quantitative. Initially, 1011 workers answered the instruments, 143 individuals who were classified as risk users participated in the final sample of the randomized clinical trial. Individuals were randomized to receive feedback and brochures (feedback, n = 68) or feedback, brochures, and BI (BI, n = 75). The results show that, in the intragroup analysis, there was a difference in all measures for the reduction of alcohol consumption at 3 months. In addition, the IB group has a greater tendency to reduce alcohol use in most of the questions analyzed, although the "feedback" group also presented results regarding a reduction in alcohol consumption in the short-term. Performing a BI in the university workplace environment showed to be effective and its results are comparable to previously studied contexts. Registered on the Registro Brasileiro de Ensaios Clinicos (REBEC) (# RBR-2fvdg2), date 14/06/2016.