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The utility of a brief self-help booklet provided at assessment for alcohol treatment was evaluated using a quasi-experimental design (booklet provided to all clients for one month at a time, interspersed by one month of no booklets, for a 6-month period).
In addition, a small group received a self-help booklet.
It was developed as a self-help booklet which proved efficacious in several studies [ 43, 44].
Parenting Matters combined a self-help booklet with two calls from a telephone coach during a 6-week treatment period.
A quit smoking information pack, containing a self-help booklet and brochures, is also provided to current smokers.
In addition, all the 580 subjects would receive a generic self-help booklet to help them quit smoking.
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If the self-help booklets are efficacious, this minimal, low cost intervention can be widely disseminated and, hence, has the potential for significant public health impact with respect to reduction in smoking-related illness and mortality.
They offered self-help booklets and relaxation CDs to patients, sign-posted patients to third sector services, as they judged appropriate, and addressed patients' social problems (see below).
Patients randomised to Li-CBT received a range of written CBT self-help booklets and worksheets [ 16] supported by an optional linked online support course.
For example, Webb, Hendricks, and Brandon (2007) demonstrated that priming participants to perceive tailored or generic information as superior improved subsequent evaluations of personalized and generic self-help booklets for smoking cessation, respectively.
Rates of improvement reported in this trial on the PGI-I were similar to or exceeded those reported in other studies using self-help booklets, in the range of 50%.
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