The Perception of Brazilian University Workers Regarding the Brief Intervention for Alcohol Use

ABSTRACT

Brief Intervention (BI) is considered an effective tool to reduce alcohol use. The present study evaluates the active ingredients present in the BI’s applied in university servers, analyzes the servers’ perception regarding these principles. It is a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory study. Twenty-four civil servants were interviewed, who made alcohol consumption considered risky through AUDIT, and who received the BI. The data analysis was structural, thematic and double-blind with a synthesis judge. The BI principles that most influenced the participants concerning the change in consumption were feedback, empathy, and counseling. Most respondents felt encouraged to reduce alcohol consumption after BI.

KEYWORDS:

• Brief intervention
• alcohol
• prevention
• university
• workers

Acknowledgments

We thank the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) for the financial support (No. APQ-01918-15), Federal University Juiz de Fora for granting the Bolsa de Iniciação Científica (BIC) scholarships, Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) for providing the doctoral scholarship and the international study scholarship PSDE19, and the MEC/SESu Extensão Universitária Program (Proext 2015) to grant scholarships for dissemination.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was supported by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) for the financial support [No. APQ-01918-15]Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) [PDSE19];Programa de Extensão Universitária MEC/SESu [PROEXT 2015].