Research Article
Differences between Groups of Family Physicians with Different Attitudes towards At-Risk Drinkers: A Post Hoc Study of the ODHIN Survey in Portugal
Table 5
Agreement with selected barriers for the implementation of alcohol screening and brief interventions.
| | Barriers | Group with worse attitudes
(%) | Group with better attitudes
(%) | |
| | Doctors are too busy dealing with other problems | 120 (85.7) | 74 (78.7) | 0.16 | | Doctors have a disease model training and do not think about prevention | 99 (70.7) | 57 (60.6) | 0.11 | | Doctors think preventive health should be patients’ responsibility not theirs | 71 (50.7) | 41 (43.6) | 0.29 | | Doctors are not sufficiently encouraged to work with alcohol problems | 111 (79.3) | 82 (87.2) | 0.12 | | Doctors feel awkward about asking questions about alcohol consumption | 109 (77.9) | 63 (67.0) | 0.07 | | Doctors do not know how to identify problem drinkers who have no obvious symptoms | 112 (80.0) | 61 (64.9) | 0.01 | | Doctors do not have a suitable screening device to identify problem drinkers | 115 (82.1) | 69 (73.4) | 0.11 | | Doctors do not have suitable counselling materials available | 117 (83.6) | 79 (84.0) | 0.92 | | Doctors are not trained in counselling for reducing alcohol consumption | 124 (88.6) | 78 (83.0) | 0.22 | | Doctors believe that alcohol counselling is too difficult | 133 (95.0) | 79 (84.0) | 0.005 | | Doctors do not believe that patients would take their advice | 117 (83.6) | 73 (77.7) | 0.26 | | Doctors themselves have a liberal attitude towards alcohol | 91 (65.0) | 58 (61.7) | 0.61 | | Doctors themselves may have alcohol problems | 96 (68.6) | 65 (69.1) | 0.93 | | Doctors believe that patients would resent being asked about their alcohol consumption | 82 (58.6) | 52 (55.3) | 0.62 |
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Chi-square test.
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