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Evaluation of an alcohol education package for non‐specialist health care and social workers
Author(s) -
GORMAN D. M.,
WERNER J. M.,
JACOBS L. M.,
DUFFY S. W.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1990.tb03075.x
Subject(s) - alcohol education , medicine , social work , psychology , perception , occupational safety and health , family medicine , nursing , neuroscience , economics , economic growth , pathology
Summary A quasi‐experimental non‐equivalent control group design was used to assess the influence of a two‐day experiential alcohol education package for non‐specialist health care and social workers. Four pairs of teams took pan in the study: general practice; accident and emergency; medicine for the elderly; and social work. The dual foci of the evaluation were agents' knowledge and attitudes, and these were assessed using a modified version of the Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Perception Questionnaire (AAPPQ). 1 For both variables, the one‐month follow‐up scores of the education teams were significantly higher than those of the comparisons, although the effect was stronger in the case of therapeutic attitudes than knowledge. There were also significant differences in improvement in ittitude scores, with significant effects being absented in the general practice, medicine for the elderly and social work teams but not the accident and emergency. At 6 months, the level of fall‐off in improvement varied and this, along with the pattern of change evident in the five components which comprise the AAPPQ attitude scale, was examined and discussed in relation to previous research in this field of inquiry.