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 Candidate3 Universidade Federal do Juiz do For a4Argentine Federation of Family Physicians5 Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

INEBRIA 2009: Breaking New GroundGateshead UK

October 16, 2009

CheckYourDrinking.net 2.0

CYD Final Report

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

Internet Reach

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

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

5th Conference of INEBRIA Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brasil

Lucas Figueroa

Isabel Weiss

Telmo RonzaniSylvie Prevost

Trevor van Mierlo

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

General CYD Reach

Map generated from: http://douweosinga.com/projects/visited?region=world

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)

Next Steps

• **Promotion**• Controlled trials• Data comparison among countries• New languages

Thank You!tvanmierlo@evolutionhs.com

Mission: To have freely accessible online brief interventions available for all languages and cultures, 24 hours a day