Mona Abed El-Rahman
Port Said University, Egypt
Title: The Application of Alcohol Brief Intervention Using the Health Belief Model in Hospitalised Alcohol Use Disorders Patients.
Biography
Biography: Mona Abed El-Rahman
Abstract
Aim: To examine the effect of implementing a brief alcohol intervention, using the heath-belief model, on the perception of susceptibility, severity, benefits, and barriers. Method: This pre-test post-test interventional study recruited 70 alcohol use disorders patients residing in the addiction centre in Amman-Jordan. The programme consisted of three 30-minuts sessions and included an introduction about alcohol abuse, orientation of the consequences of alcohol addiction, and practices towards promoting self-motivation. Data were collected before and two weeks after the intervention using a questionnaire of 58 items covering all the health-belief model components which were mentioned earlier. Results: Fifty seven out of 70 patients completed all study phases. After receiving the intervention, patients had improved their knowledge about factors triggering alcohol addiction including stress and tension. They showed better understanding of physical harms caused by addiction such as brain, heart, and liver damaging. Self-awareness of controlling the environmental factors and self-rewarding as attempts for quitting alcohol addiction had also increased. Lack of supportive systems such as families, care providers, and media were viewed as influential factors for quitting alcohol. On overall, perceived severity and benefits had shown a significant improvement after the delivery of intervention while perceived susceptibility and perceived barriers did not change over the study duration. Conclusion: Brief heath education for hospitalised alcoholic patients can increase patients' ability to clustering variables anticipating and triggering alcohol addiction. In addition, it increases selfawareness of factors impending alcohol quitting.