A planned Twitter discussion on addressing alcohol harms will take place on Wednesday the 13th August at 8pm (= 20.00 BST = 19.00 GMT = 3pm/15.00 EDT) on the theme of alcohol brief advice and brief interventions. This follows on from an initial discussion on alcohol-related hospital admissions which you can read here.
Who can take part?
The aim of the #UKalcohol discussions is to identify and discuss key issues facing those working in the alcohol field – either as commissioners, researchers, service providers or policy roles. It is hoped a different ‘theme’ will be addressed each month, reflecting key areas of interest.
#UKalcohol discussion 13th August: alcohol brief advice, brief interventions
The 2nd planned discussion is intended to cover the broad theme of design, delivery, support and monitoring of alcohol brief advice in addressing alcohol-related risks and harm.
The following issues may be used as needed as prompts/themes for discussion:
- What is brief advice, what is a brief intervention, does it matter?
- How widely should we implement brief advice/interventions on the basis of current evidence?
- What is needed to support brief advice/interventions in practice? How do the needs of different settings differ?
- How should brief advice/interventions on alcohol fit with attempts to address other lifestyle issues?
- What monitoring and evaluation of these interventions is needed and is it feasible?
Partnership
This 2nd discussion is being brought to you by the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies with the support from a range of partners and stakeholders who will be jointly supporting the alcohol Twitter discussion, and may initiate further themed discussions in future.
Next steps
If you are interested in participating in the proposed Twitter discussion either as an individual or on behalf of your organisation simply sign in via Twitter on Wednesday the 13th August at 8pm and use the #UKalcohol. Discussion may be subsequently captured and shared via Storify. You can also follow @ukctas to see tweets about this in advance.
If you’d like to ask any questions or help with Twitter please do get in touch via niamh.fitzgerald@stir.ac.uk or james@alcoholacademy.net.