Supporting nurse mentors to reduce the barriers to implementing alcohol...
Key findings The findings of this project suggest that providing a relatively low level of support to nurse mentors based in primary care leads to a significant increase in the delivery of IBA. There...
View ArticleUnderstanding recovery from a family perspective: A survey of life in...
Key findings Family members are both a resource to support recovery, and people whose own lives can be transformed through recovery, and who will benefit from their family member’s recovery journey....
View ArticleKnow Your Limits: Labelling Interventions to Reduce Alcohol Consumption
Key findings There is relatively high support for alcohol labelling interventions, including calorie, unit and to a lesser extent, health warning labelling. Unit and calorie labels which put this...
View ArticleCommunicating public health alcohol guidance for expectant mothers: a scoping...
Key findings The views of parents, antenatal teachers, midwives and policy makers differed on the value of the revised Chief Medical Officer guidance for expectant mothers. Some found a simple, clear...
View ArticleThe treatment of alcohol dependence by total abstinence: The experience of...
Key findings For residents of Studio House, facilitators and barriers for the successful completion of the programme vary along the recovery journey. The Studio House programme can be viewed as a...
View ArticleAll night long: Social media marketing to young people by alcohol brands and...
Key findings Drinking venues posted on social media more frequently than alcohol brands during the research period. 18-25 year olds were more likely to follow venues on social media than brands....
View ArticleInvestigating the Potential Impact of Changing Alcohol Product Labels
Key findings Most participants were in favour of health messages on bottles and cans; however, they were not found to pay attention to them in detail. Little time was spent looking at the areas of a...
View ArticleAlcohol outlet density and alcohol-related hospital admissions in England: a...
Key findings A higher density of on-trade outlets is associated with higher hospital admissions for conditions wholly attributable to alcohol. A higher density of licensed convenience stores is also...
View ArticleNowcasting of population alcohol-related harms using novel Bayesian...
Key findings This Bayesian structural time-series modelling framework can provide relatively accurate 1-5 year forecasts of temporal trends in local alcohol-related hospital admissions in England for...
View ArticleDevelopment of the Brief Addiction Therapist Scale (BATS)
Key findings A literature review and three-round Delphi survey facilitated the development of a Brief Addiction Therapist Scale (BATS), designed to evaluate the delivery of substance use treatment in...
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