Table 1.

Initial and final templates used to interview patients.

Initial Interview Template	Final Interview Template
Do you want to change your drinking? Why or why not?	Can you describe your alcohol use?
Have you every sought help for drinking in the past?	What do you like about it?
What did and did not work?	What do you not like about it?
What would help you cut down on or stop drinking?	What problems do you associate with it?
What influences your drinking?	Can you describe any help you have sought for drinking in the past?
What are the biggest problems that you associate with your drinking?	Why do you think it did or did not work?
What strategies do you have to cut down on your drinking?	How have people influenced your drinking?
When you experience stress, what do you do?	Have you thought about changing your drinking prior to this admission?
	Were you changing?
	What made you more likely to want to change?
	What made you less likely to want to change?
	How has this changed based on your current illness?
	Has anxiety or depression made it difficult for you to change?