Are emergency department patients more likely to answer alcohol questions in a masked health questionnaire?
Alcohol Alcohol
; 29(2): 193-7, 1994 Mar.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-8080601
ABSTRACT
The development of approaches to screening of hospital patients for harmful drinking frequently encounters resistance from both patients and hospital staff. A contributing factor could be the discomfort both feel about talking specifically about drinking. One approach to reducing this discomfort has been to mask concern about alcohol consumption into a general focus on other health and lifestyle issues. One-hundred and eighty-two patients admitted to an emergency department were presented randomly with either a straight alcohol screening questionnaire or a general health and lifestyle questionnaire with alcohol questions embedded amongst items on smoking exercise and diet. The number of returns was equal for both questionnaires which suggests the masked questionnaire does not improve the acceptability of alcohol screening in hospital environments.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Alcoolismo
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Serviço Hospitalar de Emergência
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Estilo de Vida
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Anamnese
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
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Prognostic_studies
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Screening_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País como assunto:
Oceania
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
1994
Tipo de documento:
Article