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Trevor van Mierlo 1, 2 Telmo Ronzani 3 Isabel Weiss 3 Lucas Figueroa 4 Breanne John 1

Translating Internet-Based Interventions for Global Access: a success story from the 5 th conference of INEBRIA. Trevor van Mierlo 1, 2 Telmo Ronzani 3 Isabel Weiss 3 Lucas Figueroa 4 Breanne John 1 John Cunningham 5 1 Evolution Health Systems Inc.

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Trevor van Mierlo 1, 2 Telmo Ronzani 3 Isabel Weiss 3 Lucas Figueroa 4 Breanne John 1

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  1. Translating Internet-Based Interventions for Global Access: a success story from the 5th conference of INEBRIA Trevor van Mierlo1, 2 Telmo Ronzani3 Isabel Weiss3 Lucas Figueroa4 Breanne John 1 John Cunningham5 1 Evolution Health Systems Inc. 2 University of Toronto MScCH Candidate 3 Universidade Federal do Juiz do For a 4Argentine Federation of Family Physicians 5 Centre for Addiction and Mental Health INEBRIA 2009: Breaking New Ground Gateshead UK October 16, 2009

  2. CheckYourDrinking.net 2.0

  3. CYD Final Report

  4. Advantages to IBIs • CYD takes less than 10 minutes to complete (probably 5) • Anonymous • Accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week • Tailored • Can be customized for differing demographics / cultures • Results can be printed / emailed

  5. Internet Reach • Internet • As of June 2009 approximately 1,668,870,408 people worldwide use the Internet • In 2007 60 million Americans went online to seek health information • In a recent general population survey, 81% of problem drinkers in Ontario, Canada, • had home access to the Internet • Mobile Phone Usage • Mobile phone usage has doubled worldwide since 2000 • Developing countries have lead this surge • Estimated 4 billion mobile phone users by end of 2008

  6. 5th Conference of INEBRIA Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brasil Trevor van Mierlo Sylvie Prevost Telmo Ronzani Isabel Weiss Lucas Figueroa

  7. CYD: http://www.checkyourdrinking.net Current Languages: English, International French, Portuguese, Spanish (North American), Spanish (Argentinean)

  8. General CYD Reach Map generated from: http://douweosinga.com/projects/visited?region=world

  9. Translation Issues • Lack of data (social norms, frequency) • Data not broken into age/gender • Lack of matching data • Translation is an iterative process • Long-distance communication (time consuming)

  10. Next Steps • **Promotion** • Controlled trials • Data comparison among countries • New languages

  11. Thank You! Mission: To have freely accessible online brief interventions available for all languages and cultures, 24 hours a day tvanmierlo@evolutionhs.com

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