Scholars@Duke
Joao Vitor Perez de Souza

Joao Vitor Perez de Souza

Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine

Scholarly Works - Preprints

Effectiveness of a Brief Negotiational Intervention and Text-Based Booster to Reduce Harmful and Hazardous Alcohol Use in the Emergency Department of a Low-Resource Setting: A Pragmatic Randomized Adaptive Clinical Trial in Moshi, Tanzania

Preprint · November 7, 2023 Background:Alcohol use contributes to over 3 million deaths annually. In Tanzania, similar to other low- and middle-income countries, there are no evidence-based culturally adapted interventions to address harmful alcohol use behaviors. We aim to determ ... Full text Cite

Translation and Adaptation of the Brief Negotiation Interview Adherence Scale for the Tanzanian Culture

Preprint · July 11, 2023 Background: Harmful or hazardous alcohol use is a grave public health problem, causing over 3.3 million deaths annually worldwide. A large number of patients who seek medical care at Emergency Department (ED) present alcohol-related injuries. The use of ... Full text Cite

Keep your trial on track: A data visualization approach to data collection monitoring in clinical trials

Preprint · July 7, 2023 Background: Ensuring the quality of data collected in clinical trials can be a challenging task. Additional challenges arise in trials deployed in emergency department settings where factors such as low participant enrollment and loss of follow-up may b ... Full text Cite

Using the ADAPT guidance to culturally adapt a brief intervention to reduce alcohol use among injury patients in Tanzania

Preprint · July 19, 2021 BackgroundHarmful alcohol use is a leading risk factor for injury-related death and disability in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Brief negotiational interventions (BNIs) administered in emergency departments (EDs) to injury patients with alco ... Full text Cite