Data collection
Participants’ demographic (i.e. age, sex, culturally and linguistically diverse, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent, geographic area, education, employment status) and clinical information (i.e. alcohol problem severity, past-month drinking patterns, age of first/regular alcohol use, previous alcohol treatment, past-month use of other drugs, psychological distress, barriers to seeking alcohol treatment) were collected. Data collection included use of the following measures: (a) the AUDIT measure of alcohol problem severity (