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Aims
To perform an economic evaluation of guided and unguided internet‐based interventions to reduce problematic alcohol consumption in employees compared with a waiting‐list control condition (WLC) with unrestricted access to treatment‐as‐usual.
Design
A cost‐effectiveness analysis (CEA) and cost–utility analysis (CUA) from a societal and a cost–benefit analysis from the employer's perspective...
Background and Aims
Employment during and following treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD) is important for the individual's health and well‐being and for reducing the societal costs associated with benefit payments. Nonetheless, this is an under‐researched topic. This study aimed to identify trajectories of labour force participation among people enrolled in AUD treatment and describe the characteristics...
Aims
To measure the effects of changing attributes of pictorial health warning labels (HWLs) on cigarette packs in a country that has already implemented pictorial HWLs.
Measures
For each choice set, participants were presented with two cigarette packs and asked the following three questions: (1) ‘If only these two cigarette packs were available, which would you buy?’; (2) ‘Each of these two packs...
Aims
To estimate effects of brief substance use interventions delivered in general medical settings.
Methods
A systematic review and meta‐analysis of randomized trials conducted since 1990 of brief substance use interventions in patients of any age or severity level recruited in general medical settings. Primary outcomes were any measure of substance use or substance‐related consequences (indexed...
Aims
To investigate the acute effects of intravenous alcohol and its metabolite acetaldehyde on cognitive function in healthy individuals.
Design
Experimental pre‐test/post‐test design.
Setting
Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center, Japan.
Participants
A total of 298 healthy Japanese people age 20 to 24 years.
Measurements
Participants underwent an intravenous alcohol infusion with a target...
Background
The concept of recovery capital (RC) has emerged in studies and discussions of the addiction recovery process and as a potential metric and marker for recovery gains. Although conceptual and applied development of the concept in the 20 years since the term was coined has increased, there remains insufficient clarity of key domains, factors and best practice research and applications for...
Aims
To test the efficacy of ‘MiQuit’, a tailored, self‐help, text message stop smoking programme for pregnancy, as an adjunct to usual care (UC) for smoking cessation in pregnancy.
Design
Multicentre, open, two‐arm, parallel‐group, superiority randomised controlled trial (RCT) and a trial sequential analysis (TSA) meta‐analysis combining trial findings with two previous ones.
Setting
Twenty‐four...
Background and aims
Various smoking behaviors, including smoking initiation, age of initiation, heaviness of smoking and smoking cessation, have been individually related to the risk of mortality; however, no study has assessed these smoking behaviors jointly in relation to mortality. Our study aimed to measure prospectively the association of panoramic smoking burden (PSB), generated from the four...
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