Goti 2010.
| Methods |
Design: RCT Follow‐up:1 month Attrition: 28% |
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| Participants |
Mean age (years): 15.2 Sex: 15% male N participants: 143 Allocation: n = 78 intervention; n = 65 control Setting: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology Department; higher risk patients Country: Spain |
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| Interventions |
Programme type: brief motivational interviewing Set‐up: single individual session Key components: The intervention considered altogether 12 points to be discussed during the session: contact, feedback from the evaluation, analysis of an episode of substance use, pros and cons of substance use, personal goals, problems and risks of substance use, exploration of preoccupations, decision‐making, questions and answers, decisional balance, planning changes, self monitoring Duration: approximately 60 min Control: alternative intervention |
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| Outcomes |
Outcomes: quantity and frequency measures; problems derived from use Measures: Spanish version of the Teen Addiction Severity Index (T‐ASI) |
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| Funding and Declared Conflicts of Interest | Funded by Spanish Government National Plan on Drugs. No information or declarations about potential conflicts of interest | |
| Notes | No alcohol outcomes reported, only composite drug use measure; author contacted for more details | |
| Risk of bias | ||
| Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Unclear risk | Insufficient information to make a judgement |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Unclear risk | Insufficient information to make a judgement |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes | High risk | High attrition (28%). Intention‐to‐treat analysis |
| Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Unclear risk | Insufficient information about alcohol use measures used in the study. |
| Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes | High risk | Not possible to blind participants to intervention. Insufficient information to make a judgement about blinding of therapists |
| Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes | Unclear risk | Insufficient information to make judgement |
| Unit of Analysis issues | Low risk | Not applicable |