Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
Open Access

Case Report

Exploring Medical Residents’ Likelihood to Perform Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Behaviours 30 days after a Face-to-Face SBIRT Training

¹Indiana Prevention Resource Center, Department of Applied Health Science, School of Public Health, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

²Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

³Midtown Community Mental Health Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

⁴Wishard/Eskenazi Health Services, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

*Corresponding Author:

Jon Agley, Ph.D., MPH
Indiana Prevention Resource Centre
Department of Applied Health Science
School of Public Health
501 N. Morton St., Suite 110
47401, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Tel: 812-855-3123
E-mail: jagley@indiana.edu

Received date: October 31, 2012; Accepted date:November 26, 2012; Published date: November 28, 2012

Citation: Agley J, Gassman RA, Crabb D, Babcock D, Bartholomew J, et al. (2012) Exploring Medical Residents’ Likelihood to Perform Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Behaviours 30 days after a Face-to-Face SBIRT Training. J Community Med Health Educ 2:188. doi:10.4172/2161-0711.1000188

Copyright: © 2012 Agley J, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Introduction: Even though anti-retroviral treatments for HIV/AIDS can slow down the course of the disease, there is no known cure or vaccine. Preventing the infection is the key aim in controlling the AIDS pandemic. A health education intervention was conducted among pre medical students in Misurata to improve their knowledge about HIV/ AIDS and the effectiveness of the intervention was evaluated. Objectives of study: To assess the knowledge of premedical students about HIV/AIDS and to evaluate the effectiveness of a health education intervention. Method of study: An awareness study, followed by a health education intervention on HIV/AIDS was done among 160 premedical students of Misurata, Libya for a period of 4 months. Assessment of baseline knowledge was followed by a health education intervention. Effectiveness of intervention was evaluated and improvement in post test knowledge was analyzed using t-test. Results: Knowledge about the cause of AIDS, incubation period, ability of disease to make its patient exposed to other infections, absence of complete cure and the presence of Preventive methods were excellent and knowledge about the ability to cause cancers, absence of an effective vaccine and 100% fatality were good on pretest evaluation. Knowledge about the modes of transmission of disease and the ways by which AIDS can not be transmitted were poor on pre-test evaluation. Knowledge about all aspects was excellent on post-test evaluation. Difference between pre and post test mean scores was found to be highly significant. Conclusions: The health education intervention was effective.

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