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01-12-2015 | Poster presentation
Drinking motives and alcohol intervention for patients with HIV
Authors:
Jennifer C Elliott, Efrat Aharonovich, Ann O'Leary, Deborah S Hasin
Published in:
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
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Special Issue 2/2015
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Excerpt
For individuals with HIV, heavy drinking can interfere with medication adherence and impair liver function. Yet, many individuals with HIV drink heavily. A recent alcohol intervention trial[
1] indicated that motivational interviewing (MI) enhanced with HealthCall (consisting of self-monitoring and discussion of drinking data collected through self-monitoring) was effective at reducing drinking in HIV patients. Also using this data, Elliott et al.[
2,
3] showed that patients' drinking motives at baseline were associated with both past-year and end-of-treatment drinking. However, it remains unknown: (a) whether motivational interventions also decreased drinking motives, and (b) whether the predictive validity of motives extended to end-of-study (i.e., 12-months post-baseline). …