Alcohol Screening and Brief Advice in NHS General Dental Practices: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Feasibility Trial

Autor: Antiopi Ntouva, Hynek Pikhart, Tim Newton, Georgios Tsakos, Richard G. Watt, Mike J. Crawford, Christine Gratus, Annie Britton, Anja Heilmann, Jessie Porter
Přispěvatelé: National Institute for Health Research
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Ntouva, A, Porter, J, Crawford, M J, Britton, A, Gratus, C, Newton, T, Tsakos, G, Heilmann, A, Pikhart, H & Watt, R G 2019, ' Alcohol Screening and Brief Advice in NHS General Dental Practices : A Cluster Randomized Controlled Feasibility Trial ', Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire), vol. 54, no. 3, agz017, pp. 235-242 . https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agz017
ISSN: 1464-3502
DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agz017
Popis: AIM: To assess the feasibility and acceptability of screening for alcohol misuse and delivering brief advice to eligible patients attending NHS dental practices in London.METHODS: A two-arm cluster randomized controlled feasibility trial was conducted. Twelve dental practices were recruited and randomized to intervention and control arms. Participants attending for a dental check were recruited into the study and were eligible if they consumed alcohol above recommended levels assessed by the AUDIT-C screening tool. All eligible participants were asked to complete a baseline socio-demographic questionnaire. Six months after the completion of baseline measures, participants were contacted via telephone by a researcher masked to their allocation status. The full AUDIT tool was then administered. Alcohol consumption in the last 90 days was also assessed using the Form 90. A process evaluation assessed the acceptability of the intervention.RESULTS: Over a 7-month period, 229 participants were recruited (95.4% recruitment rate) and at the 6 months follow-up, 176 participants were assessed (76.9% retention rate). At the follow-up, participants in the intervention arm were significantly more likely to report a longer abstinence period (3.2 vs. 2.3 weeks respectively, P = 0.04) and non-significant differences in AUDIT (44.9% vs. 59.8% AUDIT positive respectively, P = 0.053) and AUDIT C difference between baseline and follow-up (-0.67 units vs. -0.29 units respectively, P = 0.058). Results from the process evaluation indicated that the intervention and study procedures were acceptable to dentists and patients.CONCLUSIONS: This study has demonstrated the feasibility and acceptability of dentists screening for alcohol misuse and providing brief advice.
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