Quik Fix is a brief motivational interviewing intervention (BMI) targeting alcohol/cannabis use and psychological distress in young people. It consists of a brief assessment, personalised assessment feedback, psychoeducation (using an information brochure), motivational interviewing and brief coping skills training.
The overall goal of Quik Fix is to reduce psychological distress and alcohol/cannabis use among young people.
Quik Fix is designed for young people aged 16-25 years old.
The Quik Fix study was conducted with 61 participants aged 16-25 years, 19 years old on average. A randomised control trial (Hides et al. 2013) was conducted with 61 participants Participants were mostly single (57%) and most lived with families (74%). Half of the participants (50%) were diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder in their lifetime and were currently medicated.
Quik Fix has been evaluated in Australia however is yet to be evaluated with Aboriginal Australians.
Overall, Quik Fix had a positive effect on client outcomes.
Promising research evidence:
Quik Fix is delivered across 2-3 sessions, each lasting approximately 1 hour. Each motivational interviewing session is delivered via telephone.
The costs for Quik Fix were not reported in the study.
1 RCT conducted in Australia with a sample of 61 participants (Hides et al., 2020).
Hides, L, Carroll, S, Scott, R, Cotton, S, Baker, A, & Lubman, D 2013, ‘Quik fix: A randomized controlled trial of an enhanced brief motivational interviewing intervention for alcohol/cannabis and psychological distress in young people’, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, vol. 82, pp. 122-124, DOI 10.1159/000341921.
09 Dec 2022
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