General Practice Patients' Readiness to be Treated With Brief Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Consumption: A Cross-Sectional Study With Between-Subject Design

摘要

Aims: To treat excessive alcohol consumption, general practices (GPs) are recommended to use non-directive implementation strategies. Directive implementation, however, may be perceived by general practice patients as something positive because of possibly indicating higher GP engagement and a more consistent treatment. In our study, we aimed to assess the readiness of patients to be treated with BI in the hypothetical event of excessive alcohol consumption either by a GP using non-directive recommendations according to WHO or by a GP using directive instructions. Additionally, we assessed the patients' dispositional readiness to disclose alcohol-associated personal information, termed alcohol consumption self-disclosure, in order to analyze its influence on their readiness to be treated with brief intervention (BI).