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Implementation of brief alcohol intervention in primary health care: do nurses' and general practitioners' attitudes, skills and knowledge change?
Author(s) -
AALTO MAURI,
PEKURI PETTERI,
SEPPÄ KAIJA
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
drug and alcohol review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.018
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1465-3362
pISSN - 0959-5236
DOI - 10.1080/09595230500292904
Subject(s) - brief intervention , intervention (counseling) , primary care , nursing , primary health care , health professionals , psychology , medical education , behaviour change , health care , medicine , family medicine , environmental health , population , economic growth , economics
Brief alcohol intervention reduces heavy drinking, but its implementation has been challenging. The purpose was to evaluate self‐reported changes in attitudes, skills and knowledge regarding brief intervention among nurses and general practitioners (GPs) during an implementation project. A questionnaire survey was used before and after the implementation to all nurses and GPs working at the time in the seven primary health‐care centres of the city of Tampere, Finland. Several positive changes indicate an increased amount of knowledge regarding brief intervention among the professionals during the implementation. This was found especially among the nurses. The success in increasing the knowledge can also be seen in a decrease of training needs. Instead, attitudes and skills among the professionals did not seem to develop positively. Increasing motivational skills especially seems to be the future challenge.