Identification and Brief Advice for Sensible Drinking (SIPS)

The SIPS Research is still in progress until August 2009, but we feel that it useful to share the resources here. Below you can access the tools, information on the research context, and the training and intervention tools that accompany them.

• SIPS Identification and Brief Advice and Training Tools
  This SIPS report provides background information and user guidance on the interventions and accompanying training tools.
• Patient Information Leaflet (PIL)
  The tool used in SIPS as the Patient Information Leaflet (PIL) is the Department of Health (2008) "How much is too much?" booklet. Clinical staff are trained to deliver the PIL with a standard script...
• SIPS Brief Advice (BA) Tool
  The SIPS Brief Advice tool "Brief advice about alcohol risk" is designed to provide practitioners in various settings (primary care, accident and emergency departments, and probation services) with a...
• Brief Advice (BA) Training Presentation
  This is a one hour training session delivered to participating staff (in primary health care, accident and emergency or probation) It aims to provide practitioners with training necessary to effectively...
• Brief Advice Video Training Demo
  This Demo should be used in conjunction with the SIPS Brief Advice Training presentation .
• Brief Lifestyle Counselling (BLC) Tool
  The BLC tool is designed to provide practitioners in various settings (primary care, accident and emergency, and probation services) with a prompt on which to structure and deliver 20 min of BLC to hazardous...
• Brief Lifestyle Counselling (BLC) Training Presentation
  The BLC tool is designed to provide practitioners in various settings (primary care, accident and emergency, and probation services) with a prompt on which to structure and deliver 20 min of BLC to hazardous...
• SIPS Brief Lifestyle Counselling (BLC) Demo Video
  SIPS Brief Lifestyle Counselling (BLC) Demo Video should be used in conjunction with the brief advice tools .
• Staff Training and Intervention Questionnaires
  This document provides background information and user guidance on staff intervention training and how to use the associated questionnaires (SAAPPQ, BECCI).
• The Short Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Perception Questionnaire (SAAPPQ)
  The SAAPPQ is a 10 item, 7-point Likert-type pre training questionnaire measuring the attitudes of professionals towards the provision of care to those with alcohol use disorders.
• SAAPPQ Training Questionnaires
  SAAPPQ Pre Training Questionnaire The Pre training questionnaire contains questions that elicit demographic information as well as current role and seniority, workload and previous training on alcohol...
• PHC T3 Staff Survey
  The Staff Survey is intended for use with all those who are involved in delivering the SIPS IBA training. The questions are designed to explore the attitudes of staff working with people with alcohol...
• Behaviour Change Counselling Index (BECCI)
  The Behaviour Change Counselling Index (BECCI; Lane, 2002) is an instrument designed for trainers to score practitioners' use of Behaviour Change Counselling in consultations. It should be used in conjunction...