Alcohol brief advice: training session plan
| Training components | Description |
|---|---|
| Pretraining questionnaire | Assessment of the practitioners’ knowledge skills and attitudes towards providing alcohol advice in dental settings |
| Background epidemiology of alcohol | Building the practitioners’ theoretical knowledge on alcohol epidemiology, nationally and locally |
| Link of alcohol with health and social problems | Reviewing the impact of alcohol on the individual and the wider environment including financial burden to society and health services |
| Links between alcohol and oral health | Reviewing theoretical knowledge on the links between alcohol and oral health |
| Defining core terminology | Introduction to units of alcohol, current guidelines on drinking for men and women as well as defining levels of risk |
| Exploring the role of dental teams in providing alcohol brief advice | Identifying practitioners’ initial concerns regarding providing alcohol brief advice and explaining how the training programme will address these |
| Raising the issue of alcohol | Introducing the issue of alcohol in an appropriate manner in dental settings |
| The use of AUDIT-C screening tool | Theoretical background to the AUDIT-C tool and scoring system |
| Delivering brief advice | Video of GP delivering brief advice using the modified tool. Analysis of each part of the modified tool and the general leaflet |
| Tailoring advice for dental patients | Introducing specific skills in making the alcohol screening and brief advice relevant to the dental patient |
| Practising delivering brief advice | Role play which includes introducing the issue of alcohol, going through the AUDIT-C questionnaire and delivering brief advice using the tool to a series of compliant and resistant patients |
| Signposting services | Explaining the referral process and the way the issue of referral can be arisen with dental patients |
| Post-training questionnaire | Assessment of the practitioners’ knowledge skills and attitudes towards providing alcohol advice in dental settings |
| Next steps | Introducing the next parts of the DART study and arranging research governance training at each individual practice |
| Close | Summary and Q&A session |
AUDIT-C, the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test; DART, The Dental Alcohol Reduction Trial; GP, general practitioner; Q&A, question and answer.