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

Peter Anderson, Eileen Kaner, Myrna Keurhorst, Preben Bendtsen, Ben Van Steenkiste, Jillian Reynolds, Lidia Segura, Marcin Wojnar, Karolina Kłoda, Kathryn Parkinson, Colin Drummond, Katarzyna Okulicz-Kozaryn, Artur Mierzecki, Miranda Laurant, Dorothy Newbury-Birch and Antoni Gual
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Peter Anderson: Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle NE1 7RU, UK
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
Preben Bendtsen: Department of Medical Specialist, 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
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
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

IJERPH, 2017, vol. 14, issue 2, 1-12

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.

Keywords: primary health care; heavy drinking; screening and brief advice; training and support; financial reimbursement; role security; therapeutic commitment; short alcohol and alcohol problems perception questionnaire (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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