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The role of general practitioners' working style and brief alcohol intervention activity
Mauri Aalto1, Tanja Värre, Petteri Pekuri
1Tampere University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Finland. mauri.aalto@satshp.fi
Aims:
To examine correlates of general practitioners' (GP) activity delivery of brief alcohol interventions to patients with particular reference to their 'working style'.
Design:
A postal questionnaire survey.
Setting And Participants:
All 75 GPs in the Community Primary Health Care Centre of the City of Tampere, Finland.
Measurements:
Measures of working style classifying GPs into 'problem solving' versus 'technological', self-reported brief advice activity and other demographic details.
Findings And Conclusions:
Of the respondents (response rate 85%) 45% (29/64) reported carrying out brief alcohol interventions. Male GPs provided brief interventions more often than female GPs (71% versus 36%, P = 0.017). The respondents had mainly positive attitudes to brief interventions for excessive drinkers. The working style typology did not show any relationship with brief intervention activity.
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