Introduction: This brief report recommends how the effectiveness of the , a practice found in Mexican Catholicism, can be enhanced by combining it with Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment. The is a grassroots intervention around a sacred pledge made to Our Lady of Guadalupe to abstain from alcohol from 6 months to 1 year.
Method: The recommendations are made possible from an ongoing qualitative study on the use of the among Mexican immigrant farmworkers in southeastern Pennsylvania.
This narrative literature review addresses grassroots interventions for alcohol use disorders as practiced in Mexican immigrant communities. These organic efforts are 24-hour AA groups, or , fourth and fifth step AA groups, , and . Literature was identified using PubMed and CINAHL and limited to works published from 2000 to 2018.
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