title: [Alcohol consumption risk among health care workers of the Santa Croce e Carle Hospital of Cuneo: index of prevalence, predictors and enforcement actions to dissuade alcohol consumption].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  1691 workers of a hospital in Northern Italy underwent medical examinations in order to identij the prevalence index of alcohol consumption posing a risk, to assess the ability of some bio-anthropometric variables to predict the condition of a risk drinker, and to assess the results of a programme designed to reduce alcohol intake.
  
  
  METHODS
  Certain blood parameters were examined and two basic alcohol consumption questionnaires were administered to identify drinkers at risk. Subjects showing a high CDT ratio were given an in-depth interview to assess alcohol intake. Drinkers at risk were enrolled in an alcohol dissuasion programme consisting of brief interventions andfollow-up assessments repeated every three months for a year.
  
  
  RESULTS
  63 subjects (3.7% of the total) were classified as drinkers at risk. By means of a logistic regression test the variables male gender and smoking showed a statistically significant association with the condition of drinkers at risk, while working in inpatient wards showed only a trend towards risk (p=0.06). After a year 42 (70%) of the 60 subjects who completed the alcohol consumption dissuasion programme had reduced alcohol consumption and 18 (30%) had not changed their habits.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The prevalence of alcohol consumption posing a risk among hospital workers was low; blood parameters and alcohol consumption questionnaires routinely used to determine alcohol intake showed low ability to identif a risk condition, bio-anthropometric variables were statistically associated with a higher probability of alcohol consumption posing a risk, programmes to reduce alcohol intake among health workers proved to be effective.
authors.affiliation: S.S. Medico Competente - A.S.O. Santa Croce e Carle di Cuneo, Coppino, Cuneo.
authors.forename: Michela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cona
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gerbaudo
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Violante
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control; D001334:Automobile Driving; D015415:Biomarkers; D004327:Drinking Behavior; D004909:Erythrocyte Indices; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006769:Hospitals, General / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008111:Liver Function Tests; D008297:Male; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010565:Persuasive Communication; D010808:Physical Examination; D015995:Prevalence; D015397:Program Evaluation; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers