All Items 1 Collection 1 The Octagon 1 Contributor 3 Elwy, Anashua Rani Ghose (Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston University) 1 Horton, Nicholas J. (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Amherst College) 1 Saitz, Richard (Department of Community Health Services, Boston University) 1 Topic 3 Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects 1 Physicians--Attitudes 1 Self-efficacy 1 Part Of 1 The Amherst College Octagon 1 Genre 1 Articles 1 Subject 3 Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects 1 Physicians--Attitudes 1 Self-efficacy 1 Physicians' attitudes toward unhealthy alcohol use and self-efficacy for screening and counseling as predictors of their counseling and primary care patients' drinking outcomes Horton, Nicholas J. (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Amherst College) Patients’ unhealthy alcohol use is often undetected in primary care. Our objective was to examine whether physicians’ attitudes and their perceived self-efficacy for screening and counseling patients is associated with physicians’ counseling of patients with unhealthy alcohol use, and patients’ subsequent drinking. Physicians' attitudes toward unhealthy alcohol use and self-efficacy for screening and counseling as predictors of their counseling and primary care patients' drinking outcomes
