Tinghög Mimmi Eriksson
Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD), Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel.: +46 8162424; E-mail:
Work. 2014;47(4):543-51. doi: 10.3233/WOR-131733.
The workplace is repeatedly being referred to as an appropriate arena for alcohol prevention and dissemination of information. Whether the pressure on employers to work with prevention is realistic or if these kinds of measures have any potential in real life is however rarely discussed. An alcohol education at a company in Sweden was to be evaluated in terms of effectiveness and this study reports the findings.
The primary aim of this study was to evaluate whether an alcohol education program provided to all employees at a company in Stockholm, Sweden had any effect on alcohol consumption and alcohol-related knowledge. The increasing pressure on employers to work with alcohol prevention and on the concurrent problems of implementing and evaluating these types of interventions in real life is reviewed.
Pre- and post-test questionnaires were employed in a quasi-experimental design using a sample of convenience from two companies: one intervention and one control. Data was analyzed using repeated measures ANOVA-tests focused on the participants' AUDIT-scores, frequency of binge drinking and alcohol-related knowledge.
Significant improvement in the employees' alcohol-related knowledge was shown, but there were no significant effects on alcohol consumption.
Results of this study confirms most previous findings, but also raises the importance of considering the value of educating all employees and the willingness of employers to initiate preventive measures. Evaluating interventions of this kind is complicated, and it is also difficult to find results showing behavioural change in populations whose alcohol consumption is moderate.
工作场所一再被视为预防酒精问题和传播信息的合适场所。然而，雇主在预防工作方面所面临的压力是否现实，以及这类措施在现实生活中是否具有潜力，却很少有人讨论。瑞典一家公司开展了一项酒精教育活动，并对其效果进行评估，本研究报告了评估结果。
本研究的主要目的是评估在瑞典斯德哥尔摩一家公司向所有员工提供的酒精教育项目对酒精消费和与酒精相关知识是否有影响。同时回顾了雇主在酒精预防工作方面面临的日益增加的压力，以及在现实生活中实施和评估这类干预措施时遇到的相关问题。
采用准实验设计，通过对两家公司（一家干预组和一家对照组）的便利样本进行前后测问卷调查。使用重复测量方差分析测试对数据进行分析，重点关注参与者的酒精使用障碍识别测试（AUDIT）分数、暴饮频率和与酒精相关的知识。
员工在与酒精相关的知识方面有显著改善，但对酒精消费没有显著影响。
本研究结果证实了大多数先前的发现，但也凸显了考虑对所有员工进行教育的价值以及雇主发起预防措施意愿的重要性。评估这类干预措施很复杂，而且也很难找到显示酒精消费适度人群行为改变的结果。
