1. STANDARDISED METHODOLOGY FOR SURVEY OF DRINKING HABITS AND ALCOHOL RELATED HARM DEVELOPED IN PROJECT SMART
EG on Alcohol and Substance Abuse (ASA EG)
Fifth Working Meeting
Tallinn, September, 2012
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2. THIS PRESENTATION CONSISTS OF:
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
MAIN COMPNENTS OF THE SMART SURVEY
PROSPECTS FOR WIDER USE

3. GENERAL SMART OBJECTIVE
TO DEVELOP STANDARDIZED COMPARATIVE DRINKING SURVEYS METHODOLOGY

4. APPROACH ADOPTED REVIEWING LITERATURE
COLLECTING INFORMATION ON EXISTING SURVEY INSTRUMENTS (RESPONSE FROM 22 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, 43 SURVEYS ANALYSED)
DEVELOPING STUDY PROTOCOL AND PILOT QUESTIONNAIRE
PILOT TESTING IN TEN COUNTRIES, INCLCUDING 2000 INTERVIEWS, QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENT AND FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS
REFINING AND FINALISING METHODOLOGY FOR STANDATDIZED ALCOHOL SURVEYS

5. PILOT STUDY IN DIFFERENT DRINKING CULTURES AND METHODOLOGICAL TRADITIONS

6. WHAT IS AVAILABLE NOW
THE QUESTIONNAIRE (CZECH, ENGLISH, ESTONIAN, FINNISH, GERMAN, HUNGARIAN, ITALIAN, LATVIAN, POLISH, RUSSIAN, SPANISH)
GUIDANCE DOCUMENT
WEBPAGE
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
PUBLICATIONS

7. SMART QUESTIONNAIRE Unrecorded supply Alcohol consumption (BSQF)
Context of drinking
Attitudes towards alcohol policy
RSOD (6+; 12+ drinks)
instruments for screening alcohol dependence and abuse (RAPS; CIDI)
harm from others
SMART QUESTIONNAIRE

9. http://www.alcsmart.ipin.edu.pl/ TOTAL 2852
NUMBER OF VISITS BY CONTINENT
EUROPE
UNKNOWN ASIA
AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA
NORTH AMERICA
NUMBER OF VISITS BY YEAR
TOTAL

10. TECHNICAL SUPPORT AVAILABLE FROM OUR TEAM
PROSPECTS FOR ESTABLISHING INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT TEAM CONSISTING OF EXPERTS FROM SMART COUNTRIES, INCLUDING LATVIA

11. PUBLICATIONS
BLOOMFIELD K., HOPE A., KRAUS L. (2012): Alcohol survey measures for Europe: A literature review, Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy; posted on line 9 Jan
MOSKALEWICZ J., WIECZOREK Ł, KARLSSON T., ÖSTERBERG E. (2012): Social support for alcohol policy: Literature review; in Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy; posted on line 4 June 2012.
THICKETT A., ELEKES Z., ALLASTE A. A., KAISA K., MOSKALEWICZ J., THOM B., ALLAMANI A., KOBIN M. (2012): Drinking Terms and Concepts: their meaning and use, Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy; forthcoming.
SIEROSŁAWSKI J., FOSTER J., MOSKALEWICZ J. et al.; Survey of European drinking surveys. Alcohol survey experiences of 22 European countries; in submission

12. FEEDBACK FROM OTHER COUNTRIES
EUROPEAN SMART CONFERENCE – VERY POSITIVE FEEDBACK, NEED FOR EUROPEAN STANDARD QUESTIONNAIRE CLEARLY ACKNOWLEDGED
LATVIA – SURVEY COMPLETED
POLAND, SPAIN (CATALONYA) – ADVANCED PREPARATIONS FOR IMPLEMENTATION
OTHER SMART TEAMS CONSIDERING FUNDING

13. FEEDBACK FROM INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
EMCDDA – SMART DISCUSSED DURING ANNUAL MEETING OF NATIONAL EXPERTS ON POPULATION SURVEYS, HIGH INTEREST, ENCOURAGING COMMENTS
WHO – SMART METHODOLOGY PRESENTED IN ITS RECENT PUBLICATION AS IMPORTANT RESOURCE
EUROPEAN COMMISSION, HEALTH & CONSUMERS DIRECTORATE-GENERAL – COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL ALCHOL POLICY AND ACTION, Work meeting, Luxembourg, 12 September 2012
Joint Action as a funding instrument under the EU health programme
Joint Action to support MS to take forward work on common priorities
Possibility to include SMART

14. „Perpetuating the status quo in this field, that is, spending resources on hundreds of national alcohol surveys which offer limited scope for international comparisons, is neither cost–effective nor helpful for monitoring progress towards common aims such as those of the EU strategy to support member states in reducing alcohol-related harm. A move towards the use of common instruments, such as the questionnaire developed in the SMART project, would be crucial for methodological advance and would, over time, reduce the costs of monitoring at both national and international level. An EU-wide or European drinking survey to gather comparable baseline information would be a necessary first step to encourage Member States to adopt common methodology.”
Anderson, P., Møller, L. and Galea, G. (eds) (2012) Alcohol in the European Union. Consumption, harm and policy approaches, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen

15. ISSUES TO BE DISCUSSED The interest to implement SMART
The role of NDPHS in implementation of EU Join Action (relationships, rules of collaboration?)
How to include Russia
Time schedule