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A recipe for good mental health: A pilot randomised controlled trial of a psychological wellbeing and substance use intervention targeting young chefs.
- Source :
- Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy; Aug2015, Vol. 22 Issue 4, p352-361, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Aims:Workforce entry is a key transition period. It offers an ideal, but under-utilised opportunity to implement intervention strategies to prevent mental health and substance use problems among young people. A brief psychological wellbeing and substance use intervention targeting a high-risk group – apprentice chefs – was undertaken to explore this opportunity.Method:A RCT design (N = 71) was used. The intervention group received two face-to-face sessions, and controls received five related information sheets during the first 2 weeks of training, with 4-month follow-up.Results:These apprentices were a high-risk group for alcohol and other drug harm and poor psychological wellbeing. At T1, 70% of the participants had AUDIT scores indicating problem drinking; 28% had used cannabis and 18% had used amphetamines in the last 12 months; and 24% had high K10 scores. At T2, the intervention group had significantly reduced risky alcohol use (p = 0.008), improved psychological distress (p = 0.045) and ability to talk with supervisors about work issues (p = 0.001) and cope with work stress (p = 0.001) and verbal abuse (p = 0.005), compared to the control group.Conclusions:Brief tailored interventions, delivered in an occupational training environment, have potential to reduce substance use risk and enhance young workers’ psychological wellbeing. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- SUBSTANCE abuse prevention
WORK environment & psychology
INTERNSHIP programs
SUBSTANCE abuse risk factors
COLLEGE students
PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation
ANALYSIS of covariance
BULLYING
CHI-squared test
COMMUNICATION
COOKING
STATISTICAL correlation
EMPLOYEE assistance programs
FISHER exact test
JOB stress
PROBABILITY theory
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH funding
RESTAURANTS
STATISTICS
T-test (Statistics)
PILOT projects
DATA analysis
WELL-being
RANDOMIZED controlled trials
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
PSYCHOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09687637
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 109344273
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2015.1016400