Drug and Alcohol Needs Assessment - General Practice

1.  

Please indicate the extent to which you obtain information on your patients in each of the following areas:

2.  

Doctors and Practice Nurses vary in their brief intervention skills and training.  How prepared do you feel when counselling patients in each of these areas:

3.  

How effective do you feel you are in helping patients achieve change in each of the following areas?

4.  

In general, given adequate information and training, how effective do you feel general practitioners and practice nurses could be in helping patients change behaviour in each of the following areas? 

5.  

Indicate how much you agree or disagree with each of the following statements about working with people with increasing risk or higher risk drinking habits (excluding those dependent on alcohol).

6.  

Indicate how much you agree or disagree with each of the following statements about working with people who are dependent on alcohol or have a severe problem with alcohol (“alcoholics”).

9.  

The next two questions are about early intervention for increasing risk drinking. This involves screening patients to identify those whose alcohol consumption places them at increased risk of disease, and then counselling identified problem drinkers about reducing their alcohol consumption.

Inquiries in a number of countries have revealed that many doctors in general practice spend very little or no time at all on early intervention for alcohol.  A variety of reasons have been suggested as to why this might be so.  For each one please indicate to what extent you think that reason applies.

10.  

Doctors in a number of countries have suggested a variety of things that could lead to more doctors doing early intervention for increasing risk drinking.  Please indicate for each item to what extent it would encourage you personally to do more early intervention for increasing risk drinking.