ALCOHOL SCREENING WITH
THE AUDIT - QUESTIONNAIRE
- The Multi-Professional Training
Program in the City of Helsinki
City of Helsinki
Substance Abuse Prevention
Specialist Leena Alho
• We have translated
and modified
the AUDIT
questionnaire into
different
languages:
Finnish, English,
Swedish, Estonian
and Russian.
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• We have edited
two quides for the
social work.
• And written a short
AUDIT - manual
for nurses and
social workers.
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The multi–professional
training program
• We have developed the training
program in order to implement the
AUDIT (WHO 2001) into practice.
• We train social workers and nurses in
small groups.
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Our training program
contains:
• First – the theory part, includes AUDIT,
brief intervention and refferal to treatment
(approx. 3h).
• Second – the practice part, workers use
the method in their own work (approx. one
month).
• Third – the supervision part, we discuss
the workers’ experiences together in groups
(approx. 3h).
The situation today
• We have trained over three hundred
social workers and nurses during
two years.
• Thousands of clients have been
tested and given help in the health
and social services.
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What else have we done?
• We have organized annual AUDIT
gatherings
• We have taken part in health and welfare
happenings
• We have acted as consults in different
workgroups in early alcohol intervention
related issues
• We have been active in planning the
alcohol strategy for the city
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