Citation

Pantalon MV, Martino S, Dziura JD, Li FY, Owens PH, Fiellin DA, O'Connor PG, D'Onofrio G. J. Subst. Abuse Treat. 2012; 43(4): 382-388.

Affiliation

Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA. Electronic address: michael.pantalon@yale.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jsat.2012.08.011

PMID

23021098

Abstract

Brief intervention (BI) can reduce harmful and hazardous drinking among emergency department patients. However, no psychometrically-validated instrument for evaluating the extent to which practitioners correctly implement BIs in clinical practice (e.g., adherence) exists. We developed and subsequently examined the psychometric properties of a scale that measures practitioner adherence to a BI, namely the Brief Negotiation Interview (BNI). Ratings of 342 audiotaped BIs in the emergency department demonstrated that the BNI Adherence Scale (BAS) has: (1) excellent internal consistency and discriminant validity; (2) good to excellent inter-rater reliability, and (3) good construct validity, with an eight-item, two-factor structure accounting for 62% of the variance, but (4) no predictive validity in this study. The BAS provides practitioners with a brief, objective method to evaluate their BNI skills and give feedback to them about their performance.

Language: en