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SIPS
Added on
10/06/2008
Updated on
02/11/2009
Research Update
SIPS have recruited all 51 research sites, trained 250 Accident and Emergency staff across the 9 hospitals involved in the study and 189 primary care staff across the 24 GP surgeries, as well as 96 offender managers in the probation service. It has been a long and fruitful exercise which has led to the first report to the Department of Health, on the training of alcohol screening and brief intervention in healthcare and CJS settings.
Following some changes to the research protocol in both A&E, PHC and CJS trials we have managed to complete recruitment. For the past few months our Alcohol Health Workers have been supporting the research activities and the screening and delivering of the interventions in some A&E Departments, PHC and CJS settings.
These changes have been successful, and as a consequence more cases in both trials have now been recruited.
In October 08 we also started the 6-month follow-up interviews, and currently 80% of those due have been followed up; and we have received further funding from the Department of Health to conduct 12-month follow-ups, which have already started.
Preliminary SIPS Findings
- SIPS Preliminary Findings INEBRIA 09
The SIPS team presented some preliminary findings at the 6th Annual Conference of INEBRIA which took place at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK on 7th-9th October, 2009. The presentations...
Background to SIPS
The SIPS Programme to examine brief intervention initiatives to tackle alcohol problems is a major Department of Health funded research programme led by the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College.
"this will be the largest alcohol treatment research project ever conducted in the UK. This programme aims to find the best method of helping those people whose lives and health are affected by alcohol. Together with our partners, Universities of Newcastle, York, Imperial College and the national non-statutory agency on alcohol misuse, Alcohol Concern, we aim to be able to recommend to the government the most cost effective method of helping people who are drinking in a harmful way, in health and criminal justice settings." Chief Investigator, Professor Colin Drummond of St George's, University of London. Oct 2006.
The SIPS programme is evaluating alcohol screening and brief intervention (ASBI) in three different settings, namely primary care, A&E departments, and criminal justice (probation). It aims to identify the most effective and cost effective way of implementing ASBI in each setting by comparing different screening approaches (targeted vs. universal), screening tools, and brief interventions through a cluster randomised and nested factorial design. The three trials are similar in the design and tools used.
SIPS Toolkit
As the SIPS programme is still ongoing we are not able at this stage to advise on which one of these screening approaches, tools and interventions will be the most appropriate to use in each setting as this is the aim of the trial.
However, we think it would be beneficial to provide access to the tools we have selected and modified, with a description of their aims, how these have been modified (if applicable), how have been used in SIPS, and crucially how staff in participating settings have been trained to use these tools. The final report will be presented at the Inebria conference in Newcastle in October 2009 and will ultimately provide the evidence of what works best and the tools' effectiveness for each setting.
