Published on in Vol 23, No 8 (2021): August

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/21686, first published .
The Effectiveness of a Web-Based Self-Help Program to Reduce Alcohol Use Among Adults With Drinking Patterns Considered Harmful, Hazardous, or Suggestive of Dependence in Four Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Randomized Controlled Trial

The Effectiveness of a Web-Based Self-Help Program to Reduce Alcohol Use Among Adults With Drinking Patterns Considered Harmful, Hazardous, or Suggestive of Dependence in Four Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Randomized Controlled Trial

The Effectiveness of a Web-Based Self-Help Program to Reduce Alcohol Use Among Adults With Drinking Patterns Considered Harmful, Hazardous, or Suggestive of Dependence in Four Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Randomized Controlled Trial

Michael P Schaub   1 , PhD ;   Marcela Tiburcio   2 , PhD ;   Nora Martínez-Vélez   2 , PhD ;   Atul Ambekar   3 , MD ;   Roshan Bhad   3 , MD ;   Andreas Wenger   1 , MSc ;   Christian Baumgartner   1 , MSc ;   Dzianis Padruchny   4 , MSc ;   Sergey Osipchik   4 , MD ;   Vladimir Poznyak   5 , MD ;   Dag Rekve   5 , MA ;   Fabricio Landi Moraes   6 , BTech ;   André Luiz Monezi Andrade   7 , PhD ;   Maria Lucia Oliveira Souza-Formigoni   6 , PhD ;   WHO E-Health Project On Alcohol And Health Investigators Group   5

1 Swiss Research Institute for Public Health and Addiction, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

2 Department of Social Sciences in Health, Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, National Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico City, Mexico

3 National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

4 Republican Research and Practice Center for Mental Health, Minsk, Belarus

5 Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

6 Departamento de Psicobiologia, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

7 Centre for Life Sciences, Department of Psychology, Pontifica Universidade Católica de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

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  • Michael P Schaub, PhD
  • Swiss Research Institute for Public Health and Addiction
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