There is suggestive but inconclusive evidence from the trials of a benefit in the use of brief interventions for risk factor modification in patients with coronary heart disease .
This review , however , supports the concept that brief interventions for patients with coronary heart disease can have beneficial effects on risk factor modification and consequently on progression of coronary heart disease .
Further trials using larger sample sizes need to be undertaken to demonstrate the benefits of brief structured intervention targeted at the modification of single or multiple risk factors
BACKGROUND The physical and psychosocial benefits of participation in cardiac rehabilitation following a coronary event have well been established .
Despite these benefits there is strong evidence that participation in traditional cardiac rehabilitation programs remains low .
Various models of cardiac rehabilitation have been implemented including the use of brief structured interventions to enable modification of coronary risk factors .
OBJECTIVES The objective of this review was to determine the effect of brief structured interventions on risk factor modification in patients with coronary heart disease .
A cross-national trial of brief interventions with heavy drinkers. WHO Brief Intervention Study Group.
OBJECTIVES The relative effects of simple advice and brief counseling were evaluated with heavy drinkers identified in primary care and other health setting s in eight countries . METHODS Subjects ( 1260 men , 299 women ) with no prior history of alcohol dependence were selected if they consumed alcohol with sufficient frequency or intensity to be considered at risk of alcohol-related problems . Subjects were r and omly assigned to a control group , a simple advice group , or a group receiving brief counseling . Seventy-five percent of subjects were evaluated 9 months later . RESULTS Male patients exposed to the interventions reported approximately 17 % lower average daily alcohol consumption than those in the control group . Reductions in the intensity of drinking were approximately 10 % . For women , significant reductions were observed in both the control and the intervention groups . Five minutes of simple advice were as effective as 20 minutes of brief counseling . CONCLUSIONS Brief interventions are consistently robust across health care setting s and sociocultural groups and can make a significant contribution to the secondary prevention of alcohol-related problems if they are widely used in primary care
There is suggestive but inconclusive evidence from the trials of a benefit in the use of brief interventions for risk factor modification in patients with coronary heart disease .
This review , however , supports the concept that brief interventions for patients with coronary heart disease can have beneficial effects on risk factor modification and consequently on progression of coronary heart disease .
Further trials using larger sample sizes need to be undertaken to demonstrate the benefits of brief structured intervention targeted at the modification of single or multiple risk factors
BACKGROUND The physical and psychosocial benefits of participation in cardiac rehabilitation following a coronary event have well been established .
Despite these benefits there is strong evidence that participation in traditional cardiac rehabilitation programs remains low .
Various models of cardiac rehabilitation have been implemented including the use of brief structured interventions to enable modification of coronary risk factors .
OBJECTIVES The objective of this review was to determine the effect of brief structured interventions on risk factor modification in patients with coronary heart disease .