Educational intervention of undergraduate nursing students' confidence skills with alcohol and drug misusers

There is a paucity literature on the educational interventions and evaluation programmes in alcohol and drug with undergraduate nursing students in the United Kingdom and this study intends to add a body of knowledge to this area. The aim of the study was to assess the intervention confidence skills of undergraduate nursing students before and after an educational intervention on alcohol and drug misuse. The research study is a quasi-experimental, pre- and post-test design. The sample was made of four cohorts of undergraduate nursing students (n = 110) enrolled at a course leading to a diploma or BSc in nursing from three educational institutions. A visual analogue scale was used to measure intervention confidence skills before and after the educational programme in alcohol and drug. The findings showed an improvement in the level. of intervention confidence skills of undergraduate nursing students. Further research is needed to examine effectiveness of educational. interventions in working with substance misusers and whether substance misuse education is the key predictor of changing in changing intervention confidence skills. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.