ArticlePloS one2015
Online health check for reducing alcohol intake among employees: a feasibility study in six workplaces across England.
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- Efficacy of a web-based intervention with and without guidance for employees with risky drinking: results of a three-arm randomized controlled trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2018Trial
- Opportunities to Improve Health Equity for Employees in Low-Wage Industries in the United States.Annual review of public health · 2025Review
- Comparing a Digital Health Check With Traditional Nurse-Led Health Examinations Among Long-Term Unemployed Individuals: Comparison Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Service-level barriers to and facilitators of accessibility to treatment for problematic alcohol use: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- What do we know about alcohol internet interventions aimed at employees?-A scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Working with alcohol prevention in occupational health services: "knowing how" is more important than "knowing that" - the WIRUS OHS study.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2022Article
- Construct Validity and Differential Item Functioning of the PHQ-9 Among Health Care Workers: Rasch Analysis Approach.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2021Article
- Quality improvement activity in occupational healthcare associated with reduced need for disability retirement: A Bayesian mixed effects modelling study in Finland.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2020Article
- DIAMOND (DIgital Alcohol Management ON Demand): a feasibility RCT and embedded process evaluation of a digital health intervention to reduce hazardous and harmful alcohol use recruiting in hospital emergency departments and online.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2018Article
- Computer-Based Interventions for Problematic Alcohol Use: a Review of Systematic Reviews.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2017Review
- Evaluation of work-based screening for early signs of alcohol-related liver disease in hazardous and harmful drinkers: the PrevAIL study.BMC public health · 2015Article
- The impact of digital health interventions on health-related outcomes in the workplace: A systematic review.Digital healthReview
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Abstract
backgroundMost hazardous and harmful drinkers are of working age and do not seek help with their drinking. Occupational health services are uniquely placed to universally screen employees across the range of socioeconomic and ethnic groups. The aim was to explore the feasibility and acceptability of offering electronic screening and brief intervention for alcohol misuse in the context of a health check in six different workplace settings. METHODS AND
findingsEmployees were recruited from six workplaces across England, including three local authorities, one university, one hospital and one petro-chemical company. A total of 1,254 (8%) employees completed the health check and received personalised feedback on their alcohol intake, alongside feedback on smoking, fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity. Most participants were female (65%) and of 'White British' ethnicity (94%), with a mean age of 43 years (SD 11). Participants were mostly in Intermediate occupations (58%), followed by Higher managerial / professional (39%) and Routine and manual occupations (2%). A quarter of participants (25%) were drinking at hazardous levels (33% male, 21% female), which decreased with age. Sixty-four percent (n=797) of participants completed online follow-up at three months. Most participants were supportive of workplaces offering employees an online health check (95%), their preferred format was online (91%) and many were confident of the confidentiality of their responses (60%). Whilst the feedback reminded most participants of things they already knew (75%), some were reportedly motivated to change their behaviour (13%).
conclusionsOnline health screening and personalised feedback appears feasible and acceptable, but challenges include low participation rates, potentially attracting 'worried well' employees rather than those at greatest health risk, and less acceptance of the approach among older employees and those from ethnic minority backgrounds and routine or manual occupations.
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