Current practices and intention to provide alcohol-related health advice in primary dental care

S. Shepherd; Debbie Bonetti; Janet Clarkson; Graham Ogden; L. Young

doi:10.1038/sj.bdj.2011.822

Current practices and intention to provide alcohol-related health advice in primary dental care

S. Shepherd (Lead / Corresponding author), Debbie Bonetti, Janet Clarkson, Graham Ogden, L. Young

Dentistry

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Abstract

Objectives To determine whether general dental practitioners (GDPs) currently provide alcohol-related advice (ARA) and to inform the development of an intervention, should one be required.

Method Cross-sectional postal survey of a random sample of 300 GDPs in Scotland. The questionnaire assessed beliefs derived from psychological models that explain behaviour in terms of beliefs that are amenable to change, and so may inform development of an intervention to encourage the provision of ARA.

Results Sixty percent of GDPs responded. Eighty-three percent of participating GDPs (145/175) had not provided ARA to patients in the previous ten working days. Attitude (perceived consequences), control beliefs (perceived difficulty), subjective norm (perceived social pressure), and self-efficacy (confidence) significantly predicted intention to provide ARA. Alcohol-related knowledge or personal alcohol behaviour did not predict intention to provide ARA.

Conclusions There is scope to increase the provision of ARA in primary care dentistry and this study identified predictive beliefs, which could be targeted to encourage this behaviour. The next phase is to develop and test an intervention to encourage GDPs to provide ARA.

Original language	English
Article number	E14
Number of pages	6
Journal	British Dental Journal
Volume	211
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2011.822
Publication status	Published - 7 Oct 2011

Keywords

BRIEF INTERVENTIONS
CLINICIAN BEHAVIOR
GENERAL-PRACTICE
PUBLIC-HEALTH
ORAL-CANCER
PROMOTION
DRINKERS
DRINKING
DENTISTS
EPIDEMIOLOGY

UN SDGs

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Alcohol related health advice and the role of the General Dental Practitioner
Shepherd, S. (Author), Ogden, G. (Supervisor) & Clarkson, J. (Supervisor), 2017
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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