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Evidence found and GRADE certainty

89 questions · 96 findings · 11 reviews

No studies found 11 · 11.5%GRADE not reported 4 · 4.2%Very low 21 · 21.9%Low 35 · 36.5%Moderate 25 · 26%High 0 · 0%

Motivational interviewing/mindfulness and cognitive skills vs waiting list control

Abstinence from drug use · drug‐using offenders with co‐occurring mental health problems

Motivational interviewing/mindfulness and cognitive skills showed no clear difference in abstinence from drug use compared with waiting list control (low certainty).

1 finding from 1 review

Multicomponent motivational interviewing/self‐management intervention with a multi component education intervention vs telephone‐based individual educational counselling plus group education

Proportion of participants developing a new ulcer · s

The review found no eligible studies for this question.

1 finding from 1 review

Brief motivational interviewing (BMI) vs usual treatment alone

Alcohol consumption: consuming more than 21 units of alcohol per week · Male patients aged 16 to 35 years attending an oral and maxillofacial surgery outpatient clinic for follow-up of an alcohol-related facial…

Brief one-session, manual-guided discussion based on the principles… led to lower alcohol consumption: consuming more than 21 units of alcohol per week compared with treatment at the outpatient clinic as usual; GRADE not reported.

1 finding from 1 review

Comprehensive oral health intervention (oral health education plus additional support: motivational interviewing, toothbrush/toothpaste provision, community engagement, and/or fluoride varnish/sealant application) delivered by non-dental health workers vs control (no intervention/usual care/isotonic exercise)

Caries experience at the surface level (dmfs/defs) · Children (mean age newborn to ~5.2 years) and their parents/carers

Comprehensive interventions produced a small, statistically significant reduction in surface-level caries (dmfs SMD -0.14, 95% CI -0.26 to -0.02; 10 studies; not GRADE-rated).

1 finding from 1 review

Comprehensive oral health intervention (oral health education plus additional support: motivational interviewing, toothbrush/toothpaste provision, community engagement, and/or fluoride varnish/sealant application) delivered by non-dental health workers vs control (no intervention/usual care/isotonic exercise)

Caries experience · Children (mean age newborn to ~5.2 years) and their parents/carers

Comprehensive interventions produced a statistically significant reduction in tooth-level caries (dmft SMD -0.47, 95% CI -0.84 to -0.10; 4 studies; not GRADE-rated), though heterogeneity was very high.

1 finding from 1 review

Intervention not reported

Smoking cessation at ≥ 6 months · tobacco smokers (general population, low income, inpatients and outpatients with mixed diagnoses)

The intervention showed no clear difference in smoking cessation at ≥ 6 months (low certainty).

1 finding from 1 review