Healthcare Provider Attitudes Towards Patients With Substance Use Before and After Implementation of the SBIRT Model in the Emergency Room

Completed

• Conditions: Healthcare Provider Attitudes; Patients With Substance Abuse
• Interventions: Other: Training on motivational interviewing

• Registration Number: NCT01661478
• Lead Sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham

Brief Summary

The purpose of this quality improvement research project is to briefly survey attitudes among healthcare providers toward patients with substance use disorders before and after substance abuse counselors are placed in the Emergency Room.

Detailed Description

The purpose of this quality improvement research project is to briefly survey attitudes among healthcare providers toward patients with substance use disorders before and after substance abuse counselors are placed in the Emergency Room. SBIRT stands for Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment. The pre-test survey contains 10 questions about attitudes toward patients with substance use disorders and the post-test survey consists of 13 questions about attitudes toward patients with substance use disorders and questions regarding the SBIRT model itself. Health care providers will be surveyed before the SBIRT Counselors begin and again at 6 months, after full SBIRT program with substance counselors on site has been in place, as a part of their regular staff education requirements. Part of the goal of the SBIRT counselors is to educate providers about treatment and analyze data collected by and comments of Emergency Room staff.

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-09
• Study First Submitted: 2012-08-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-08-07
• Study First Posted: 2012-08-09
• Status Verified: 2017-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-01-13
• Last Update Posted: 2017-01-18

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

• UAB Emergency Department Staff (attending, resident, nurse, social worker, case manager, patient care technician) or Psychiatry Emergency Services staff (nurses, social workers and residents)

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Exclusion Criteria

• Not employed in UAB Emergency Department

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Department of Psychiatry personnel	Training on motivational interviewing	survey
Emergency Department personnel	Training on motivational interviewing	survey

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

University of Alabama Birmingham; 🇺🇸 Birmingham, Alabama, United States

University of Alabama at Birmingham; 🇺🇸 Birmingham, Alabama, United States