Assessment of alcohol and psychotropic drug use among old-age psychiatric patients in Norway: Experiences of health professionals:

[摘要] Background:Increased awareness among health professionals regarding older people’s alcohol and prescribed psychotropic drug use may be beneficial for reducing their unhealthy consumption among elderly.Aim:This study explores how health professionals experienced their participation in a study in which they collected data on alcohol and psychotropic drug use among patients treated in old-age psychiatry departments and, subsequently, how they experienced their work day after the study ended.Method:Focus-group and individual interviews with 15 professionals in specialist psychiatric hospitals were performed in 2016. The data were analysed using content analysis.Results:Two themes emerged from the data: the informants’ “experiences with participation” and “consequences of participation”. These themes described how the informants had experienced their participation in the study and whether these experiences subsequently affected their work routines. The first theme included two subthemes: “approaching the topic...

[学科分类] 生物化学/生物物理

[关键词] care;elderly;geriatric;health promotion;public health;services;substance misuse or abuse;treatment