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Attitudes and Learning through Practice Are Key to Delivering Brief Interventions for Heavy Drinking in Primary Health Care: Analyses from the ODHIN Five Country Cluster Randomized Factorial Trial

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  • Peter Anderson

    (Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle NE1 7RU, UK
    Department of Family Medicine, Maastricht University, Maastricht 6200, The Netherlands)

  • Eileen Kaner

    (Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle NE1 7RU, UK)

  • Myrna Keurhorst

    (Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare (IQ healthcare), Nijmegen 6525, The Netherlands
    Centre for Nursing Research, Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Deventer 7513, The Netherlands)

  • Preben Bendtsen

    (Department of Medical Specialist, Linköping University, Motala 58183, Sweden
    Department of Medicine and Health, Linköping University, Motala 58183, Sweden)

  • Ben Van Steenkiste

    (Department of Family Medicine, Maastricht University, Maastricht 6200, The Netherlands)

  • Jillian Reynolds

    (Psychiatry Determent, Neurosciences Institute, Hospital Clínic, IDIBAPS, Barcelona 08003, Spain)

  • Lidia Segura

    (Program on Substance Abuse, Public Health Agency, Government of Catalonia, Barcelona 08003, Spain)

  • Marcin Wojnar

    (Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw 02-091, Poland)

  • Karolina Kłoda

    (Independent Laboratory of Family Physician Education, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin 70-204, Poland)

  • Kathryn Parkinson

    (Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle NE1 7RU, UK)

  • Colin Drummond

    (National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London WC2B 5RL, UK
    National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health, Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London SE5 8AF, UK)

  • Katarzyna Okulicz-Kozaryn

    (State Agency for Prevention of Alcohol-Related Problems, Warsaw 59620-2905, Poland)

  • Artur Mierzecki

    (Independent Laboratory of Family Physician Education, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin 70-204, Poland)

  • Miranda Laurant

    (Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare (IQ healthcare), Nijmegen 6525, The Netherlands
    Faculty of Health and Social Studies, HAN University of Applied Sciences, Nijmegen 6525, The Netherlands)

  • Dorothy Newbury-Birch

    (Health and Social Care Institute, Teesside University, Middesbrough TS1 3BX, UK)

  • Antoni Gual

    (Psychiatry Determent, Neurosciences Institute, Hospital Clínic, IDIBAPS, Barcelona 08003, Spain)

Abstract

In this paper, we test path models that study the interrelations between primary health care provider attitudes towards working with drinkers, their screening and brief advice activity, and their receipt of training and support and financial reimbursement. Study participants were 756 primary health care providers from 120 primary health care units (PHCUs) in different locations throughout Catalonia, England, The Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden. Our interventions were training and support and financial reimbursement to providers. Our design was a randomized factorial trial with baseline measurement period, 12-week implementation period, and 9-month follow-up measurement period. Our outcome measures were: attitudes of individual providers in working with drinkers as measured by the Short Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Perception Questionnaire; and the proportion of consulting adult patients (age 18+ years) who screened positive and were given advice to reduce their alcohol consumption (intervention activity). We found that more positive attitudes were associated with higher intervention activity, and higher intervention activity was then associated with more positive attitudes. Training and support was associated with both positive changes in attitudes and higher intervention activity. Financial reimbursement was associated with more positive attitudes through its impact on higher intervention activity. We conclude that improving primary health care providers’ screening and brief advice activity for heavy drinking requires a combination of training and support and on-the-job experience of actually delivering screening and brief advice activity.

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  • Peter Anderson & Eileen Kaner & Myrna Keurhorst & Preben Bendtsen & Ben Van Steenkiste & Jillian Reynolds & Lidia Segura & Marcin Wojnar & Karolina Kłoda & Kathryn Parkinson & Colin Drummond & Katarzy, 2017. "Attitudes and Learning through Practice Are Key to Delivering Brief Interventions for Heavy Drinking in Primary Health Care: Analyses from the ODHIN Five Country Cluster Randomized Factorial Trial," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 14(2), pages 1-12, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:14:y:2017:i:2:p:121-:d:88888
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    1. Esperanza Romero-Rodríguez & Luis Ángel Pérula de Torres & Fernando Leiva-Cepas & José Ángel Fernández García & Sara Fernández López & María Martín-Rabadán Muro & Francisco Camarelles Guillem & Ana Ro, 2019. "Knowledge, attitudes and preventive practices of primary health care professionals towards alcohol use: A national, cross-sectional study," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(5), pages 1-13, May.
    2. Amy O’Donnell & Eileen Kaner, 2017. "Are Brief Alcohol Interventions Adequately Embedded in UK Primary Care? A Qualitative Study Utilising Normalisation Process Theory," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 14(4), pages 1-16, March.

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