A sample of 2009 Scottish medical graduates: their views on proposed changes to the sale of alcohol. Rapid response.

Gill, Jan S; Gibson, Caroline; Nicol, Maggie

Abstract

We should like to contribute to the debate around the content of this
editorial by presenting a subset of results from an ongoing study
conducted by ourselves during the period 2008-09 and funded by the Alcohol
Education Research Council. We have been using a questionnaire to explore
the knowledge and perceptions relating to alcohol and the use of brief
interventions, among healthcare and medical students. In total, we
anticipate that around 1000 students will complete the questionnaire.

Our questionnaire concludes with four questions which relate directly
to key proposals outlined in the publications emerging from the Scottish
Government1. Participants have been asked to record their responses to
each of these four statements (shown in the left hand column of Table 1)
on a Likert, six point scale which ranges from ‘strongly agree’ to
‘strongly disagree’.
In this letter we report the results pertaining to the group of 2009
graduating medical students recruited to our online survey from three
Scottish university medical schools.

Citation

Gill, J. S., Gibson, C., & Nicol, M. (2009). A sample of 2009 Scottish medical graduates: their views on proposed changes to the sale of alcohol. Rapid response. BMJ, 338, doi:10.1136/bmj.b1191

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Mar 20, 2009
• Deposit Date: Feb 17, 2015
• Print ISSN: 0959-8138
• Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 338
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b1191
• Keywords: Alcohol; Government policy; attitudes
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/7585
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b1191