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. 2011 May 11;2011(5):CD008063. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD008063.pub2

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.
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.