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Life skills training and booster sessions plus drinking reduction treatment was effective in heavily drinking women
Connors GJ, Walitzer KS. Reducing alcohol consumption among heavily drinking women: evaluating the contributions of life-skills training and booster sessions. J Consult Clin Psychol 2001 Jun;69:447–56[Medline]
QUESTION: In problem drinking women without histories of severe physical dependence on alcohol, does the addition of life skills training and booster sessions to drinking reduction treatment (DRT) reduce alcohol consumption?
Randomised {allocation concealed*}
, blinded (outcome assessors)*, controlled trial with 18 months of follow up.
A university in Buffalo, New York, USA.
144 self referred women who were 
21 years of age (mean age 39 y), drank 15 drinks/week or had 2 drinking days/week of 6 drinks/day, were interested in reducing their alcohol consumption, scored in the lower half of the Alcohol Dependence Scale (ie, moderate levels of alcohol dependence symptoms), had normal liver function tests, and were not pregnant. Exclusion criteria included previous hospital admission for drinking or drug use, previous detoxification from alcohol or any other drug, current alcohol related legal charges, current psychiatric treatment, and hospital admission in the past 5 years. 92% of women provided complete follow up drinking data.
Women were allocated to DRT alone {n=31}, DRT plus life skills training {n=39}, DRT plus booster sessions {n=41}, or DRT plus
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust Berkshire, UK
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