Differences between Groups of Family Physicians with Different Attitudes towards At-Risk Drinkers: A Post Hoc Study of the ODHIN Survey in Portugal

Table 4

Alcohol-related clinical practice behaviours.

	Group with worse attitudes; (%)	Group with better attitudes; (%)
Ask about alcohol even if patients do not
All the time/Most of the time	102 (72.9)	76 (80.9)	0.16
Some of the time/Rarely or never	38 (27.1)	18 (18.9)
Extent to which information was obtained on patients’ drinking alcohol moderately
Always/As indicated	124 (88.6)	86 (91.5)	0.47
Occasionally/Rarely or Never	16 (11.4)	8 (8.5)
Feel prepared to counsel patients reducing alcohol consumption
Very prepared/Prepared	104 (74.3)	86 (91.5)	<0.001
Unprepared/Very unprepared	36 (25.7)	8 (8.5)
Feel effective in helping patients reducing alcohol consumption
Very effective/effective	68 (48.6)	73 (77.7)	<0.001
Ineffective/Very ineffective	72 (51.4)	21 (22.3)
Number of times a blood test was requested in the last year because of alcohol concern
>12 times	77 (55.0)	61 (64.9)	0.13
≤12 times	63 (45.0)	33 (35.1)
Number of patients managed for alcohol in the last year
≥7 patients	92 (65.7)	71 (75.5)	0.11
<7 patients	48 (34.3)	23 (24.5)

Chi-square test.