U-M study: Pep talk to teens in the ER reduced violence, alcohol misuse

University of Michigan Health System (Ann Arbor, MI) August 3:

"A brief, motivational talk in the emergency room reduced by half the chances that teenagers would experience peer violence or problems due to drinking, according to a study published Aug. 4 in a theme issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association... 'The study tells us that technology can aid in assisting high-risk youth in busy clinical settings, as well as deliver important prevention messages,' says Cunningham who is also an associate professor of emergency medicine at the U-M Medical School and associate professor of health behavior & health education at the U-M School of Public Health. 'Emergency staff are busy and not all hospitals have the resource of a social worker or therapist present at all times in the emergency department.'"
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