Prevalence and characteristics of hazardous and harmful drinkers receiving general practitioners' brief advice on and support with alcohol consumption in Germany: results of a population survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The German treatment guideline on alcohol-related disorders recommends that general practitioners (GPs) offer brief advice on, and support with, reducing alcohol consumption to hazardous (at risk for health events) and harmful (exhibit health events) drinking patients. We aimed to estimate the implementation of this recommendation using general population data.

Design

Cross-sectional analysis of data (2021/2022) of a nationwide, population-based household survey.

Setting

Germany.

Participants

Population-based sample of 2247 adult respondents who reported hazardous or harmful drinking according to the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-Consumption (AUDIT-C; score women: 4-12 and men: 5-12).

Main outcome measure

Ever receipt of 'brief GP a

SUBMITTER: Kastaun S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9516087 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature