From: Patients’ experiences of alcohol screening and advice in primary care: a qualitative study
NPT construct | Theme | Sub-theme |
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Coherence | Patients’ understanding of alcohol-related risk and harm | • Knowing the limits: what it means to drink to excess |
• Awareness of immediate versus longer term risk | ||
Cognitive Participation | Engaging with screening and brief interventions in primary care | • Alcohol conversations as standardised and routine |
• Primary care clinicians viewed as trustworthy, objective and expert | ||
• Telling the truth about drinking | ||
Collective action | Managing lower risk alcohol consumption in everyday life | • Personal strategies to limit alcohol consumption |
• Influence of families and relationships | ||
Reflexive monitoring | Impact of alcohol advice on individual drinking practices | • Value of talking to patients about alcohol |
• Challenge of dealing with heavy drinkers |