A Mixed-methods Study Exploring the Acceptability of Psychosocial Interventions and Social Determinants of Engagement With an NHS-led Alcohol Care Service.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 尚未招募
- 入组人数
- 2,000
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Acceptability of delivering psychosocial interventions & social determinants of access to an NHS-led Alcohol-Care service.
研究概览
简要总结
This is a mixed-methods study consisting of a qualitative assessment the acceptability of psychosocial interventions, delivered by clinical staff. The study will also investigate the correlation between demographic variables and engagement with a North West England, NHS-led, alcohol care service, amongst the patient population.
详细描述
The study will initially consists of a qualitative element assessing the acceptability of psychosocial interventions from the ITEP Manual, delivered by clinical staff, utilising a tailored version of the evidence-based, generic theoretical framework of acceptability questionnaire (Sekhon et al., 2022). This meets the ontological epistemology of a qualitative approach, based upon by its' focus on elicitation of subjective experience, perceptions and effort, in relation to the acceptability of delivering psychosocial interventions (Tombs and Strange, 2024). Assessing this is of particularly importance, as whilst the ITEP Manual has a strong evidence base for successful behaviour change, measures of acceptability regarding delivery are less well evidenced and have been postulated to influence clinicians' readiness to initiate behaviour change conversations, prospectively affecting patient outcomes (Bull et al., 2021).
The study will also investigate the correlation between demographic variables and engagement with a North West England, NHS-led, alcohol care service, amongst the patient population. Measures of interest will be based on existing, routinely captured data, including alcohol consumption (Audit-C/ AUDIT scores), and demographic variables of age, gender and socioeconomic status. Engagement can be defined in this case, as patient contact with the service, which might lead to referral to treatment and onward referral (although these latter variables are outside the scope of the current study). The social determinants of health are known to contribute to poorer outcomes, hence identification of those not engaging with such services, offers new opportunities to improve population health (Fraser et al., 2022; Hiam, 2025). Indeed, this philosophy aligns with the NHS 10-year plan which acknowledges the intolerable and detrimental health outcomes of polarised groups in UK society, with clear objectives set out to tackle inequalities in both access and outcomes (NHS, 2025).
It is anticipated that this study will contribute to our understanding of the importance of measuring the acceptability of delivering health behaviour interventions, amongst NHS clinical staff, delivering evidence-based psychosocial interventions. It is also anticipated the study will distinguish which social determinants of health, correlate to engagement with an NHS-based alcohol care service. It offers new opportunities to reflect on, and review current strategies for delivering on objectives, around ameliorating social inequalities within socially deprived areas (NHS, 2025). It may also highlight a need for more research to evaluate prospective improvement opportunities to reduce health inequalities, for those patient groups who are not engaging with such services.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Cross Sectional
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 67 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Clinical staff who worked in the ELHT alcohol care service, and received training in the delivery of psychosocial interventions using the ITEP Manual, and who are still employed by ELHT in other roles (following de-commissioning of the alcohol care service).
- •Patient data under part 2 of the study, who have not opted to have their data removed, in accordance with the NHS MESH, opt out scheme.
排除标准
- •Clinical staff who worked in the ELHT alcohol care service, but who no longer work for the trust, or are retired.
- •Clinical staff who did not receive training in the delivery of psychosocial interventions.
- •Any patient data under part 2 of the study, who have opted to have their data removed for use, under the NHS MESH protocols.
研究组 & 干预措施
Clinical ataff who delivered psychosocial interventions and staff who engaged with the service
The participants for part 1 will be identified by the former service lead, who still works in the Trust. A list of all the clinical staff who worked in the alcohol care service will be provided to the Chief Investigator, in order to facilitate contact, with prospective participants. This will be done via email correspondence on Trust computers, to work-based email addresses, to ensure that all correspondence within the study, is protected by Trust IT security.
Part 2: The data pertaining to the patient contacts between September 2023 and December 2024, will be screened by the NHS England MESH team to determine if any patients have opted out of sharing their data for research purposes. Once confirmed, the residual data between September 2023 and December 2024 will then be reviewed for inclusion in the data analysis. That is, given that data is captured from a single-time point, for each data set (i.e. there is no intervention follow-up data to compare against).
结局指标
主要结局
Acceptability of delivering psychosocial interventions & social determinants of access to an NHS-led Alcohol-Care service.
时间窗: Anticipated to be no longer than 3 months
Directed Content Analysis (DCA) will be used to analyse data from the outputs of the TFA-based questionnaire regarding the acceptability of interventions (Hsieh et al., 2005; Sekhon., et al, 2022). Descriptive statistics will be used to describe the current patient contact data from patients who engaged with the service during September 2023 and December 2024.
次要结局
未报告次要终点