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. 2016 Jul 18;2016(7):CD007025. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD007025.pub4

Segatto 2010.

Methods Design: RCT
Follow‐up: 3 months 
Attrition: 15%
Participants Mean age (years): 21.8
Sex: 90.3% male
N participants: 175
Allocation: n = 87 intervention n = 88 control
Setting: emergency room; higher risk patients
Country: Brazil
Interventions Programme type: brief motivational interviewing
Set‐up: single individual session
Key components: roll with resistance, express empathy, avoid argumentation, develop discrepancy and support self efficacy
Duration: 45 min
Control: assessment only
Outcomes Outcomes: pattern of alcohol consumption over the previous 3 months, considering the number of abstinent days, and amount of alcohol consumed; alcohol‐related problems; traffic violations, police involvement, physical health and sexuality; perception of future risks associated with excessive alcohol ingestion considering that the pattern of alcohol abuse does not change within 3 months; motivational stage to change behaviour
Measures: Alcohol Consumption Questionnaire; Rutgers Alcohol Problem Index; Alcohol Consumption Risk Questionnaire; Alcohol Perception of Risk Assessment; Readiness to Change Questionnaire
Funding and Declared Conflicts of Interest No information
Notes
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk A lottery system was employed
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Low risk Lottery system performed by ER personnel not linked to the clinical trial in order to avoid selection bias
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Attrition 15%
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk All outcomes reported
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes High risk "Patients were blinded to the intervention applied" (Procedures section). Personnel not blinded
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Instruments were applied by an independent researcher
Unit of Analysis issues Low risk Not applicable