The Voice Fall 2011 Highlights
Kypri earns Dan Anderson Research Award
for e-SBI work
Kypros Kypri, PhD, senior research fellow at the School of Medicine and Public Health
at the University of Newcastle, Australia, has earned Hazelden's Dan Anderson Research Award for his development of a Web-based alcohol screening and brief intervention tool, known as e-SBI.
Sponsored by the Butler Center for Research at Hazelden, the award honors a single published article by a researcher who has advanced the scientific knowledge of addiction treatment and recovery.
Kypri earned the award for his study, "Randomized Controlled Trial of Web-Based Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention in Primary Care," published in Archives of Internal Medicine (vol. 168, pages 530-536). The study was a randomized controlled trial of Web-based alcohol screening and brief intervention among a large group of university students seeking medical help at a primary health care facility. At six month and one-year follow-ups, e-SBI participants reported lower alcohol consumption and fewer academic problem behaviors relative to controls. The free Web-based program involved screening, assessment, and personalized feedback about consumption levels compared with peers and medical guidelines.
"E-SBI is less threatening to many non-treatment seeking drinkers than a face-to-face intervention [making] it a promising approach to reducing unhealthy use of alcohol, particularly among young people who bear a heavy burden of alcohol-related harm," wrote Johanna Dean, MSc, director and research psychologist at the research and evaluation company Kypri & Dean Pty Ltd, who nominated Kypri for the award.
"This work illustrates how effective quick, confidential, and electronic screening and brief intervention can be to improve health and functioning," said Valerie Slaymaker, PhD, chief academic officer in the Butler Center for Research at Hazelden. Slaymaker noted that Kypri's research and the research of others in the field have contributed to Hazelden's ongoing development of online intervention tools.
Kypri will accept the award and a $2,000 honorarium in May at the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP) annual conference.
The award is named for the late Dan Anderson, PhD, the former president of Hazelden and one of the major architects of the Minnesota Model, the interdisciplinary approach to addiction treatment that has been replicated worldwide. Recognizing outstanding research and conducting research of its own are the primary objectives of the Butler Center for Research, the research arm of Hazelden.
The Voice, Spring 2010
