Referral to an Electronic Screening and Brief Alcohol Intervention in Primary Health Care in Sweden: Impact of Staff Referral to the Computer
The aim of this paper was to evaluate whether primary health care staff's referral of patients to perform an electronic screening and brief intervention (e-SBI) for alcohol use had a greater impact on change in alcohol consumption after 3 month, compared to patients who performed the test on th...
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| author | Preben Bendtsen Diana Stark Ekman AnneLie Johansson Siw Carlfjord Agneta Andersson Matti Leijon Kjell Johansson Per Nilsen |
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| description | The aim of this paper was to evaluate whether primary health care staff's referral of patients to perform an electronic screening and brief intervention (e-SBI) for alcohol use had a greater impact on change in alcohol consumption after 3 month, compared to patients who performed the test on their own initiative. Staff-referred responders reported reduced weekly alcohol consumption with an average decrease of 8.4 grams. In contrast, self-referred responders reported an average increase in weekly alcohol consumption of 2.4 grams. Staff-referred responders reported a 49% reduction of average number of heavy episodic drinking (HED) occasions per month. The corresponding reduction for self-referred responders was 62%. The differences between staff- and self-referred patient groups in the number who moved from risky drinking to nonrisky drinking at the followup were not statistically significant. Our results indicate that standalone computers with touchscreens that provide e-SBIs for risky drinking have the same effect on drinking behaviour in both staff-referred patients and self-referred patients. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-59ff79f504e6425ba58ecf2798ee6cad2025-02-03T05:46:34ZengWileyInternational Journal of Telemedicine and Applications1687-64151687-64232011-01-01201110.1155/2011/918763918763Referral to an Electronic Screening and Brief Alcohol Intervention in Primary Health Care in Sweden: Impact of Staff Referral to the ComputerPreben Bendtsen0Diana Stark Ekman1AnneLie Johansson2Siw Carlfjord3Agneta Andersson4Matti Leijon5Kjell Johansson6Per Nilsen7Division of Community Medicine, Department of Medical and Health Science, Linköping University, 58381 Linköping, SwedenDepartment of Public Health Science, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, Karlstad University, 651 88 Karlstad, SwedenDivision of Community Medicine, Department of Medical and Health Science, Linköping University, 58381 Linköping, SwedenDivision of Community Medicine, Department of Medical and Health Science, Linköping University, 58381 Linköping, SwedenDivision of Community Medicine, Department of Medical and Health Science, Linköping University, 58381 Linköping, SwedenDivision of Community Medicine, Department of Medical and Health Science, Linköping University, 58381 Linköping, SwedenDivision of Community Medicine, Department of Medical and Health Science, Linköping University, 58381 Linköping, SwedenDivision of Community Medicine, Department of Medical and Health Science, Linköping University, 58381 Linköping, SwedenThe aim of this paper was to evaluate whether primary health care staff's referral of patients to perform an electronic screening and brief intervention (e-SBI) for alcohol use had a greater impact on change in alcohol consumption after 3 month, compared to patients who performed the test on their own initiative. Staff-referred responders reported reduced weekly alcohol consumption with an average decrease of 8.4 grams. In contrast, self-referred responders reported an average increase in weekly alcohol consumption of 2.4 grams. Staff-referred responders reported a 49% reduction of average number of heavy episodic drinking (HED) occasions per month. The corresponding reduction for self-referred responders was 62%. The differences between staff- and self-referred patient groups in the number who moved from risky drinking to nonrisky drinking at the followup were not statistically significant. Our results indicate that standalone computers with touchscreens that provide e-SBIs for risky drinking have the same effect on drinking behaviour in both staff-referred patients and self-referred patients.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/918763 |
| spellingShingle | Preben Bendtsen Diana Stark Ekman AnneLie Johansson Siw Carlfjord Agneta Andersson Matti Leijon Kjell Johansson Per Nilsen Referral to an Electronic Screening and Brief Alcohol Intervention in Primary Health Care in Sweden: Impact of Staff Referral to the Computer International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications |
| title | Referral to an Electronic Screening and Brief Alcohol Intervention in Primary Health Care in Sweden: Impact of Staff Referral to the Computer |
| title_full | Referral to an Electronic Screening and Brief Alcohol Intervention in Primary Health Care in Sweden: Impact of Staff Referral to the Computer |
| title_fullStr | Referral to an Electronic Screening and Brief Alcohol Intervention in Primary Health Care in Sweden: Impact of Staff Referral to the Computer |
| title_full_unstemmed | Referral to an Electronic Screening and Brief Alcohol Intervention in Primary Health Care in Sweden: Impact of Staff Referral to the Computer |
| title_short | Referral to an Electronic Screening and Brief Alcohol Intervention in Primary Health Care in Sweden: Impact of Staff Referral to the Computer |
| title_sort | referral to an electronic screening and brief alcohol intervention in primary health care in sweden impact of staff referral to the computer |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/918763 |
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