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Delivery of alcohol brief interventions in community-based youth work settings: exploring feasibility and acceptability in a qualitative study

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Title
Delivery of alcohol brief interventions in community-based youth work settings: exploring feasibility and acceptability in a qualitative study
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BMC Public Health, April 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12889-017-4256-1
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Martine Stead, Tessa Parkes, Avril Nicoll, Sarah Wilson, Cheryl Burgess, Douglas Eadie, Niamh Fitzgerald, Jennifer McKell, Garth Reid, Ruth Jepson, John McAteer, Linda Bauld

Abstract

Alcohol Brief Interventions (ABIs) are increasingly being delivered in community-based youth work settings. However, little attention has been paid to how they are being implemented in such settings, or to their feasibility and acceptability for practitioners or young people. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the context, feasibility and acceptability of ABI delivery in youth work projects across Scotland. Individual, paired and group interviews were conducted with practitioners and young people in nine community projects that were either involved in the delivery of ABIs or were considering doing so in the near future. A thematic analysis approach was used to analyse data. ABIs were delivered in a diverse range of youth work settings including the side of football pitches, on the streets as part of outreach activities, and in sexual health drop-in centres for young people. ABI delivery differed in a number of important ways from delivery in other health settings such as primary care, particularly in being largely opportunistic and flexible in nature. ABIs were adapted by staff in line with the ethos of their project and their own roles, and to avoid jeopardising their relationships with young people. Young people reacted positively to the idea of having conversations about alcohol with youth project workers, but confirmed practitioners' views about the importance of these conversations taking place in the context of an existing trusting relationship. ABIs were feasible in a range of youth work settings with some adaptation. Acceptability to staff was strongly influenced by perceived benefits, and the extent to which ABIs fitted with their project's ethos. Young people were largely comfortable with such conversations. Future implementation efforts should be based on detailed consideration of current practice and contexts. Flexible models of delivery, where professional judgement can be exercised over defined but adaptable content, may be better appreciated by staff and encourage further development of ABI activity.

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Country Count As %
Sri Lanka 1 <1%
Unknown 139 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 22 16%
Researcher 13 9%
Student > Bachelor 12 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 4%
Other 24 17%
Unknown 52 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 17 12%
Social Sciences 8 6%
Psychology 6 4%
Sports and Recreations 5 4%
Other 20 14%
Unknown 60 43%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 June 2017.
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#2,126,015
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#2,537
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#39,060
of 323,566 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#55
of 244 outputs
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