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Tackling drink and drug driving through care, not just penalties
It’s a risk we face each time we travel by car – drivers sharing the roads might be affected by alcohol or other drugs, with potentially life-changing consequences for us all. “Driving under the influence is a major contributor to road traffic crashes,” explains Monash University Senior Research Fellow Dr Jasmin Grigg, who’s leading the research evaluation of the Driver Support Service.
A brief intervention for improving alcohol literacy and reducing harmful alcohol use by women attending a breast screening service: a randomised controlled trial
Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 560-560. || doi: 10.5694/mja2.52161 Published online: 11 December 2023 In reply: Braillon1 questions the rationale for investigating brief alcohol interventions for reducing alcohol consumption among women attending breast screening. Our recent trial2 represents one example of the wider efforts to rethink potential applications of brief alcohol interventions3 — in this instance, within a national breast screening program.
A brief intervention for improving alcohol literacy and reducing harmful alcohol use by women attending a breast screening service: a randomised controlled trial
Med J Aust 2023; 218 (11): 511-519. || doi: 10.5694/mja2.51991 Published online: 19 June 2023 The known: Awareness among women that alcohol is a major modifiable risk factor for breast cancer is low. Brief alcohol interventions are acceptable to women attending breast screening services, but their effectiveness has not been established.
A brief intervention for improving alcohol literacy and reducing harmful alcohol use by women attending a breast screening service: a randomised controlled trial
Sample size calculation We estimated that 22% of participants would identify alcohol use as a clear risk factor for breast cancer at baseline (based on the findings of our pre-implementation study22) and that the proportion in the active intervention arm would be at least 12 percentage points larger four weeks after the intervention (based on the findings of a similar English study25).
Risky alcohol consumption among women in Australia attending breast screening services: an exploratory cross‐sectional study
Study design This was a retrospective analysis of de-identified cross-sectional data from the Lifepool Project (collected October 2011–January 2016) [19], approved by the Eastern Health and Monash University Human Research Ethics Committees. Reporting of the current study followed the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) guidelines [20].
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