title: Factors influencing the implementation of a brief alcohol screening and educational intervention in social settings not specializing in addiction services.
abstract: Although alcohol use continues to be a major problem, when high-risk users enter social services, they are not provided with empirically supported treatments (ESTs). This study investigates predictors of successful implementation in agencies not specializing in addiction services. Fifty-four frontline workers in six organizations were enrolled in the study. After completing self-administered surveys of organizational culture and climate and attitudes toward ESTs, workers were trained to implement a brief intervention. The results indicate that organizational factors and attitudes may not be related to implementation. Although high implementers had similar traits, further research is needed to characterize successful EST implementers.
authors.affiliation: a Brown School , Washington University in St. Louis , St. Louis , Missouri , USA.
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Patterson Silver Wolf Adelv Unegv Waya
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008923:Missouri; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D009518:New York; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012574:Schools; D012947:Social Work / Q000193:education*; D000068217:Social Workers / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: alcohol and drug use; empirically supported treatments; implementation; organizational culture and climate; worker characteristics