title: What makes emergency department patients reduce their alcohol consumption?--a computer-based intervention study in Sweden.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study investigates the effectiveness of a computerized emergency department intervention for alcohol consumption and identifies explanation factors associated with reduced alcohol consumption from risk to non-risk drinking.
  
  
  METHODS
  Patients aged 18-69 years registered at the ED triage answered alcohol-related questions on a touch-screen computer. Follow-up data were collected by means of a postal questionnaire that was mailed to the patients 6 months after their ED visit.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were four independent explanations for reduced alcohol consumption: being motivated to reduce alcohol consumption at baseline, influenced by just visiting the emergency department, considering the alcohol-related feedback information and impact from a health care provider. 339 patients could be followed up and of these were 97 categorized as risk drinkers at baseline and 45 became non-risk drinker 6 month later.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Being motivated to reduce alcohol consumption at baseline, influenced by just visiting the emergency department, considering the alcohol-related feedback information and impact from a health care provider were predictors for change from risk to non-risk drinking 6 months later.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical and Health Science, Division of Community Medicine, Linköping University, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden. anna.trinks@liu.se
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Trinks
authors.forename: Karin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Festin
authors.forename: Preben
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bendtsen
authors.forename: Per
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nilsen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016288:Computer Terminals; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden