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Table 1 BAI Core Components

From: Scaling up a brief alcohol intervention to prevent HIV infection in Vietnam: a cluster randomized, implementation trial

Session 1

Introduction, intervention overview, purpose

Reasons for drinking

Consequences of alcohol use

What is a standard drink, lower risk versus unhealthy use

Personalized feedback on level of drinking

Reasons to cut down or quit

Triggers, cravings; Identifying risky moods and situations

Ways to manage risky moods and situations for self-efficacy

Optional goal settings for lower risk use or abstinence; change plan

Homework assignment: track alcohol use, triggers, cravings

Session 2

Review of events since last session: alcohol use patterns, triggers or cravings encountered; enactment of coping skills & outcome

Homework review: reasons to reduce; risky situations; how to handle risk

Tailored action plan: including

a) Engaging supportive others

b) Plans to meet drinking goals; facilitators and challenges

c) Coping skills/activities that do not involve alcohol

d) Refusal skills

e) Home and emergency strategies

Summary of personal action plan; Closing/follow up

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Implementation Science

ISSN: 1748-5908