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Task sharing and teamwork: clinician preferences for alcohol screening and brief interventions in cardiology.

Paul Welfordsson, Anna-Karin Danielsson, Caroline Björck, Bartosz Grzymala-Lubanski, Kristina Hambraeus, Ida Haugen Löfman, Frieder Braunschweig, Matthias Lidin, Sara Wallhed Finn

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Paul WelfordssonDepartment of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden. paul.welfordsson@ki.se.
Anna-Karin DanielssonDepartment of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden.
Caroline BjörckDepartment of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Akademiska sjukhuset, Uppsala, Sweden.
Bartosz Grzymala-LubanskiCentre for Research and Development, Region Gävleborg, Gävle, Sweden.
Kristina HambraeusDepartment of Cardiology, Falun Hospital, Falun, Dalarna, Sweden.
Ida Haugen LöfmanDepartment of Medicine, Unit of Cardiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Frieder BraunschweigDepartment of Medicine, Unit of Cardiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Matthias LidinDepartment of Medicine, Unit of Cardiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Sara Wallhed FinnDepartment of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden.

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objectiveTo investigate clinicians' preferences for alcohol screening and brief interventions in clinical cardiology settings.

resultsA total of 664 cardiology clinicians responded to a cross-sectional survey (30.9% response rate), including 55.1% nurses, 21.4% assistant nurses, 18.8% doctors, and 4.7% other clinical staff. Among these participants, 87.5% indicated that patients should be screened for alcohol use on cardiology wards, 79.8% in outpatient clinics, 49.1% in emergency departments, and 45.9% on coronary care units. Doctors and nurses were the preferred professions to be responsible for screening across all clinical contexts, while fewer respondents indicated that assistant nurses or physiotherapists should be responsible for screening (p < .001). Most participants (85.2%) indicated that patients should be screened in more than one clinical context and 84.6% indicated that more than one profession should be responsible for alcohol screening. Clinicians' preferred modality for assessing alcohol use was verbal screening (92% of participants), followed by questionnaires (53.5%), digital tools (28.5%), and alcohol biomarkers (22.1%, p < .001). Just over half of participants (58%) indicated that they would like to attend training on brief interventions. Findings suggest that task sharing, teamwork, and training may be effective strategies for implementation of alcohol screening and brief interventions in clinical cardiology.

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Alcohol DrinkingAlcoholismAttitude of Health PersonnelCardiologyMass ScreeningPatient Care TeamAdultCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPhysiciansSurveys and QuestionnairesAlcoholBrief interventionsCardiologyCross-sectional surveyImplementationPreferencesScreening

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PMCPMC12398004

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