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Effect of a brief intervention with small financial incentives on alcohol consumption in China: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

INTRODUCTION: Alcohol consumption is the seventh leading risk factor for disability-adjusted life years in the world, according to the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. As the largest developing country, China has a substantial population of alcohol consumers who suffer from related health risks....

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Autores principales: Li, Shanshan, Wu, Ziting, Liu, Sijia, Sun, Yu, Liu, Gordon G
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9119181/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35584882
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-056550
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Wu, Ziting
Liu, Sijia
Sun, Yu
Liu, Gordon G
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description INTRODUCTION: Alcohol consumption is the seventh leading risk factor for disability-adjusted life years in the world, according to the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. As the largest developing country, China has a substantial population of alcohol consumers who suffer from related health risks. Despite having made significant advancements in eradicating absolute poverty, many people still live in relative poverty, which suggests that the adverse health effects caused by alcohol consumption among vulnerable populations in China warrant more attention. This paper aims to provide an overview of alcohol consumption among ethnic populations in China and test the feasibility and efficacy of a brief advice intervention with a small financial incentive in reducing harmful drinking behaviours. METHODS: This study is a three-arm, single-blinded, pragmatic, individually randomised controlled trial with follow-ups at 1,2 and 3 months after randomisation. A total of 440 daily drinkers living in Xichang will be recruited and divided into three groups: brief intervention group, financial incentive group and control group. All participants will receive a urine ethyl glucuronide (EtG) test, which detects alcohol consumption in the past 80 hours. Additionally, participants in the brief intervention group will receive three free counselling sessions alongside multimedia messages on the topic of alcohol consumption after each session. The participants in the financial incentive group will receive the same interventions as well as cash incentives according to the results of the EtG test. The primary outcomes are the self-reported drinking quantity, binge drinking frequency, drinking intensity and the proportion of participants who pass the EtG test. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: This protocol was approved by the Peking University Health Science Center Institutional Review Board (IRB00001052-20049). Findings will be published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at local, national and international conferences to publicise and explain the research to key audiences. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT04999371.
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spelling pubmed-91191812022-06-04 Effect of a brief intervention with small financial incentives on alcohol consumption in China: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial Li, Shanshan Wu, Ziting Liu, Sijia Sun, Yu Liu, Gordon G BMJ Open Health Economics INTRODUCTION: Alcohol consumption is the seventh leading risk factor for disability-adjusted life years in the world, according to the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. As the largest developing country, China has a substantial population of alcohol consumers who suffer from related health risks. Despite having made significant advancements in eradicating absolute poverty, many people still live in relative poverty, which suggests that the adverse health effects caused by alcohol consumption among vulnerable populations in China warrant more attention. This paper aims to provide an overview of alcohol consumption among ethnic populations in China and test the feasibility and efficacy of a brief advice intervention with a small financial incentive in reducing harmful drinking behaviours. METHODS: This study is a three-arm, single-blinded, pragmatic, individually randomised controlled trial with follow-ups at 1,2 and 3 months after randomisation. A total of 440 daily drinkers living in Xichang will be recruited and divided into three groups: brief intervention group, financial incentive group and control group. All participants will receive a urine ethyl glucuronide (EtG) test, which detects alcohol consumption in the past 80 hours. Additionally, participants in the brief intervention group will receive three free counselling sessions alongside multimedia messages on the topic of alcohol consumption after each session. The participants in the financial incentive group will receive the same interventions as well as cash incentives according to the results of the EtG test. The primary outcomes are the self-reported drinking quantity, binge drinking frequency, drinking intensity and the proportion of participants who pass the EtG test. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: This protocol was approved by the Peking University Health Science Center Institutional Review Board (IRB00001052-20049). Findings will be published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at local, national and international conferences to publicise and explain the research to key audiences. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT04999371. BMJ Publishing Group 2022-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9119181/ /pubmed/35584882 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-056550 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
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Liu, Sijia
Sun, Yu
Liu, Gordon G
Effect of a brief intervention with small financial incentives on alcohol consumption in China: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
title Effect of a brief intervention with small financial incentives on alcohol consumption in China: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
title_full Effect of a brief intervention with small financial incentives on alcohol consumption in China: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
title_fullStr Effect of a brief intervention with small financial incentives on alcohol consumption in China: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
title_full_unstemmed Effect of a brief intervention with small financial incentives on alcohol consumption in China: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
title_short Effect of a brief intervention with small financial incentives on alcohol consumption in China: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
title_sort effect of a brief intervention with small financial incentives on alcohol consumption in china: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
topic Health Economics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9119181/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35584882
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-056550
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