@article{ref1,
title="Practitioner-level predictors of alcohol problems detection and management activities",
journal="Journal of substance use",
year="2007",
author="Gassman, Ruth A.",
volume="12",
number="3",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="The alcohol health services literature suggests that a potential problem with promoting secondary prevention is an existing educational focus on alcohol dependency. AIMS: This study explores practitioner-level predictors of health professionals' self-reported detection and management activities in an effort to inform this question. PARTICIPANTS: The participants consisted of a random sample of licensed physicians and nurse practitioners in a northern California county. MEASUREMENT: Participants completed a self-administered questionnaire on beliefs and practices regarding patients with alcohol problems and at-risk drinkers. FINDINGS: The results indicate that prior alcohol education predicted clinical practices to address known or suspected drinking problems, but not those at-risk or without observable symptoms. In addition, stigmatizing beliefs about problem drinkers discouraged use of blood tests even when awareness of a drinking problem existed. CONCLUSIONS: The conclusions are that existing models of alcohol education appear to convey a tertiary focus, and do not cover secondary prevention sufficiently to challenge the deficits and beliefs that discourage early detection and intervention.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1465-9891",
doi="10.1080/14659890701237215",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14659890701237215"
}