Table 4 Employees’ risk level assessment, categorised by AUDIT sum scores and intervention recommendations
Overall sample | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Risk level | AUDIT sum | Recommended interventiona | N | % of overall sample | % of risky drinkers |
Low | 0–7 | Alcohol education | 3179 | 89.0 | – |
Moderate | 8–15 | Simple advice | 371 | 10.4 | 94.6 |
High | 16–19 | Brief counselling and consecutive monitoring | 16 | 0.4 | 4.1 |
Dependence likely | 20–40 | Diagnostic evaluation for alcohol dependence | 5 | 0.2 | 1.3 |
Identified at-risk groups (% of risky drinkers with moderate, high and dependence risk) | |||||
Group | Moderate (AUDIT 8–15) | High (AUDIT 16–19) | Dependence likely (AUDIT 20–40) | ||
Males without children | 95.3 | 3.5 | 1.2 | ||
Males living alone | 98.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | ||
Males aged ≤39 | 93.3 | 6.7 | 0.0 | ||