Evaluating a Brief Negotiational Intervention for Alcohol Use Among Injury Patients in Tanzania

This is a 5-10 minute conversation using the principles of motivational interviewing between the healthcare practioner and the patient to motivate the patient to identify at risk alcohol use and through self-empowerment create a plan to decrease alcohol use.

This SMS based intervention will be a text to the participant once weekly including motivational statements to try to have patients reduce their alcohol use.

This SMS based intervention will be a text to the participant once weekly including motivational statements to try to have patients reduce their alcohol use. Information in this text will be personalized based on the participants specific reasons for reducing their alcohol use rather than a standard text content.