Kelly 2000.
Methods | RCT. | |
Participants | 32 Australian women with alcohol and marital problems. | |
Interventions | Alcohol focused treatment (including MI, CBT strategies and relapse prevention) (n= 16) vs 1 month waiting list control group (n= 16). | |
Outcomes |
Physiological primary: None. Non‐physiological primary: Standard drinks per drinking day. Secondary: None. |
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Notes | ||
Risk of bias | ||
Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Unclear risk | "...assigned randomly." |
Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Unclear risk | Insufficient information to permit judgment. |
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) Patients and providers | High risk | No blinding. |
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) Assessors | Unclear risk | It is not stated whether the assessors were blinded. |
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes | High risk | 28% attrition at 1 month, 31% attrition at 6 months, and 38% attrition at the 12 months follow‐up. Balanced across groups. Not clear whether ITT was performed. Reasons for loss not reported. |
Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Low risk | The published report included all expected outcomes based on the study hypotheses. |
Other bias | Low risk | Collateral report to check on self‐report. There were no differences between groups at baseline. No additional sources of bias appear to be present. |