Results from the UK's largest brief intervention study, the SIPS trial, will be officialy released at a conference on Monday 5th March 2012, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.
Download the flyer for Alcohol Screening and Brief Interventions: From Research into Practice [pdf]. The event is a one day conference including the launch of SIPS Junior, a new trial into brief interventions for adolescents.
The Screening and Intervention Programme for Sensible drinking (SIPS) research programme was funded by the UK Department of Health as part of the national Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy for England.
The programme comprised three cluster randomised controlled trials for different methods of screening and brief intervention across three settings: Primary Health Care, Emergency Departments, and Probation Services. It involved and trained 670 members of staff across all these settings. During the 13-month data collection period 10,530 patients were screened and almost 2,500 recruited into the study, making it the largest alcohol screening and brief intervention pilot study so far conducted in the UK.
See here for the draft programme and here for online registration. Due to the limited number of places available SIPS advise the earliest possible registration, which will close on 24 February 2012.
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