Title |
Delivery of Brief Interventions for Heavy Drinking in Primary Care: Outcomes of the ODHIN 5-Country Cluster Randomized Trial
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Published in |
Annals of Family Medicine, July 2017
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DOI | 10.1370/afm.2051 |
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Authors |
Peter Anderson, Simon Coulton, Eileen Kaner, Preben Bendtsen, Karolina Kłoda, Jillian Reynolds, Lidia Segura, Marcin Wojnar, Artur Mierzecki, Paolo Deluca, Dorothy Newbury-Birch, Kathryn Parkinson, Katarzyna Okulicz-Kozaryn, Colin Drummond, Antoni Gual |
Abstract |
We aimed to test whether 3 strategies-training and support, financial reimbursement, and an option to direct screen-positive patients to an Internet-based method of giving brief advice-have a longer-term effect on primary care clinicians' delivery of screening and advice to heavy drinkers operationalized with the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-Consumption (AUDIT-C) tool. We undertook a cluster randomized factorial trial with a 12-week implementation period in 120 primary health care units throughout Catalonia, England, Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden. Units were randomized to 8 groups: care as usual (control); training and support alone; financial reimbursement alone; electronic brief advice alone; paired combinations of these conditions; and all 3 combined. The primary outcome was the proportion of consulting adult patients (aged 18 years and older) receiving intervention-screening and, if screen-positive, advice-at 9 months. Based on the factorial design, the ratio of the log of the proportion of patients given intervention at the 9-month follow-up was 1.39 (95% CI, 1.03-1.88) in units that received training and support as compared with units that did not. Neither financial reimbursement nor directing screen-positive patients to electronic brief advice led to a higher proportion of patients receiving intervention. Training and support of primary health care units has a lasting, albeit small, impact on the proportion of adult patients given an alcohol intervention at 9 months. |
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Researcher | 14 | 13% |
Student > Master | 11 | 11% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 10% |
Professor | 4 | 4% |
Other | 17 | 16% |
Unknown | 32 | 31% |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 29 | 28% |
Psychology | 19 | 18% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 9% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 3% |
Engineering | 3 | 3% |
Other | 6 | 6% |
Unknown | 35 | 34% |