know your numbers; improving health literacy of nhs staff
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Introducing Know Your Numbers
Cathy Rule
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What is Know Your Numbers?
• Behavioural change approach to alcohol
– own drinking (units/week)
– spectrum of risk
• A number not a category avoids stigma of
‘alcohol dependent’ or ‘alcoholic’
• Like blood pressure, cholesterol, weight - the size of
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Know Your Numbers Principle
• If your staff can’t calculate their own risk level of
drinking (if they drink), they can’t help your patients
to do the same
• Staff with improved knowledge of alcohol units can
ask their patients about their drinking
• Allows them to identify and treat patients
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Baseline Results
• Correct Unit Estimation• Baseline Audit• July 2014
Starting with a very low alcohol specific health
literacy
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Baseline0.0%
0.5%
1.0%
1.5%
2.0%
2.5%
3.0%
2.5%
Why is Know Your Numbers Important?
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• NICE Quality Standard (QS11) for alcohol;Quality Statement 1
• NICE CG115 standard
“Staff … should be competent to identify harmful drinking and alcohol dependence.
They should be competent to initially assess the need for an
intervention”
Know Your Numbers Project
• Funded by PHE and Wessex AHSN• Resourced by UHS and University of
Southampton• Aims to
– improve the alcohol specific health literacy of healthcare staff
– increase the identification of patients at increased and higher risk drinking levels
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Deliverables
• Produce a package of Know Your Numbers materials for dissemination
• Raise the alcohol-specific health literacy of healthcare staff
• To Increase the identification of patients at increased and higher risk drinking levels
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Know Your Numbers Part 1
• September 2014 to March 2015
• Drink Diaries• Know Your Numbers Bar• UHS Open day• Alcohol Awareness
week• Mobile trolley to wards
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Part 1Results
Baseline Follow-up0.0%
2.0%
4.0%
6.0%
8.0%
10.0%
12.0%
14.0%
16.0%
18.0%
2.5%
5.4%
15.4%
2.9%
all respondents respondents with KYNrespondents without KYN
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Confidence & CompetenceFollow-up Audit
No (N=374) Yes (N=91)0
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15.4
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Correct Unit Estimation'very confident' Speaking to Patients
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Correct Unit Estimation - Baseline July 2014 and Follow-up March 2015
Know Your Numbers Part 2
• July 2015 to January 2016• Mobile / Tablet / Web
Apps• Training Documentation• Leaflet• Cards• Know Your Numbers Bar• Events
– New Forest show– Alcohol Awareness Week
• Online training
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Further Results after online training / survey at UHS
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• November 2015• 335 respondents• Correct estimation of
alcohol content
Considerable improvement in alcohol specific health literacy with repeat training Baseline 07/14 Follow-up 03/15 Follow-up 11/15
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
2.5%5.4%
37.5%
0.0%
15.4%
72.7%
0.0%2.9%
32.7%
All With KYN Training Without KYN Training
Dissemination
• Know your numbers available now• Use for staff alcohol training• Increase identification of alcohol patients• Come to the workshop!
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Adopt Know Your Number
• What’s in the KYN Package?• What results can you get?• Try it now• How would you use it?• Do you want to adopt?
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Innovation Workshops1345 - 1445
Earl Jellicoe Room
Know Your Numbers App
iOS
Android
Web
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wessexahsn.org.uk/WebApp
NeedGoogle Chrome or Firefox