SCALA Project Outputs

As the SCALA project progresses, you will be able to access all resources and outputs generated by the project, including: publications, reports, presentations, and videos. A number of audiovisual materials developed in Spanish are also available on the Spanish language outputs page.

Publications

Jané-Llopis E, Anderson P, Piazza M, et al Implementing primary healthcare-based measurement, advice and treatment for heavy drinking and comorbid depression at the municipal level in three Latin American countries: final protocol for a quasiexperimental study (SCALA study) BMJ Open 2020;10:e038226. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038226

Anderson, P., O'Donnell, A., Kaner, E., Gual, A., Schulte, B., Gómez, A. P., ... & Rehm, J. (2017). Scaling-up primary health care-based prevention and management of heavy drinking at the municipal level in middle-income countries in Latin America: Background and protocol for a three-country quasi-experimental study.F1000Research, 6.

SCALA project reports

SCALA Deliverable report D3.1 - SCALA Protocol. 2019

SCALA Deliverable report D3.2 - Municipal Action Plans. 2019

SCALA Deliverable report D6.1 - SCALA Engagement, Communication,Dissemination and Exploitation (ECDE) Plan. 2019

Presentations

SCALA Workshop, INEBRIA conference, Lübeck, September 26th, 2019

INEBRIA SCALA INTRO - Scale up of prevention and management of alcohol use disorders and comorbid depression in Latin America.
Amy O'Donnell - Development of locally tailored intervention packages to address heavy drinking,depression and alcohol health literacy.
Adriana Solovei - Assessing costs of SBI in Latin America .
Jacob Manthey - Reducing disease burden with alcohol brief interventions in Columbia, Mexico and Peru: first results from a modelling study .
Peter Anderson On behalf of all Scientists in the SCALA Project Consortium - Scaleup of prevention and management of alcohol use disorders and comorbid depression in Latin America, Design and Baseline Results.

Other 2019 presentations

Amy O'Donnell - Closing the evidence to practice gap for alcohol identification and brief advice in healthcare: the journey so far and the challenge ahead.< (Faculty of Public Health and Public Health England Alcohol Learning Event, Nottingham 29 April 2019)

SCALA Workshop, INEBRIA conference, Santiago de Chile, 27-28 September 2018

Antoni Gual, Jürgen Rehm and Augusto Pérez present the SCALA Project at a Group Session Workshop as part of the INEBRIA Conference, 27 Sept 2018.

Other 2018 presentations

Bernd Schulte - Scale-up of Prevention and Management of Alcohol Use Disorder in Latin America - The SCALA project (Nordic Implementation Conference, 28-29 May 2018)

Videos

The SCALA training videos are designed to model the screening and brief intervention approach of the SCALA programme for the management of alcohol problems and co-morbid depression in primary care. The videos are all in Latin American Spanish

Videos for standard form training:

SCALA Video 1a - Screening Pedro: +alcohol, - depression +alcohol, - depresión

SCALA Video 1b - Brief intervention - Pedro: +alcohol, - depression

SCALA Video 2a - Screening - Paola: +alcohol, + depression

SCALA Video 2b - Brief intervention - Paola: +alcohol, + depression

SCALA Video 3 - Feedback and referral - Ana-María: +alcohol, ++ depression

Videos for short form training:

SCALA Video A (short form) - Screening negative - Sofia: - alcohol

SCALA Video B (short form) - Screening and brief advice - Juan: + alcohol, -depression

SCALA Video C - Javier: patient resists remission/reference - alcohol++

The English versions of SCALA Clinical materials and instruments are available here. (For these in Spanish (and local variations for the 3 study sites), please see the ES outputs page.)

Baseline Material - English

Study arms 1, 2 & 3 (short form)

Protocol: Scale-Up of Prevention and Management of Alcohol Use Disorders and Comorbid Depression. Short form. EN.

Information sheet: Baseline Measurement Period. Short form. EN.

A Guide for Health Care Professionals: Screening and Intervention for Alcohol Use and Depression. Short form. EN.

Study arm 4 (standard form)

Protocol: Scale-Up of Prevention and Management of Alcohol Use Disorders and Comorbid Depression. Standard form. EN.

Information sheet: Baseline Measurement Period. Standard form. EN.

A Guide for Health Care Professionals: Screening and Intervention for Alcohol Use and Depression. Standard form. EN.

Implementation Material - English

Study arms 1 (control)

Protocol: Scale-Up of Prevention and Management of Alcohol Use Disorders and Comorbid Depression. Short form. EN.

A Guide for Health Care Professionals: Screening and Intervention for Alcohol Use and Depression. Short form. EN.

Study arms 2 (control with training) & 3 (short form programme)

Patient alcohol leaflet. Short and long form. EN.

Patient Brief Advice Leaflet. Short form. EN.

Patient depression leaflet. Short and long form. EN.

Study arm 4 (standard form programme)

Patient alcohol leaflet. Short and standard form. EN.

Patient Brief Advice Leaflet. Standard form. EN.

Patient depression leaflet. Short and standard form. EN

Baseline Instruments - English

Study arms 1, 2 & 3 (short form)

Tally Sheets Cover Form. EN.

Very Short Tally Sheet. EN.

PHC Provider questionnaire. EN.

Drop out documentation. EN.

Study arm 4 (standard form)

Tally Sheets Cover Form. EN.

Short Tally Sheet. EN.

PHC Provider questionnaire. EN.

Drop out documentation. EN.

Implementation Instruments - English

Study arms 1 (control)

Very Short Tally Sheet. EN.

Provided extended Tally Sheet. EN.

Patient consent to further questions. EN.

Tally Sheets Cover Form. EN.

Drop out documentation. EN.

PHC Provider questionnaire 3 month follow up EN.

PHC Provider questionnaire 13 month follow up. EN.

Patient questionnaire 3 months and 13 months. EN.

PHCC cost assessment 12 months. EN.

Study arm 2 (Control with training)

Very Short Tally Sheet. EN.

Provided extended Tally Sheet. EN.

Patient consent to further questions. EN.

Tally Sheets Cover Form. EN.

Drop out documentation. EN.

PHC Provider questionnaire 3 month follow up EN.

PHC Provider questionnaire 13 month follow up. EN.

Patient questionnaire 3 months and 13 months. EN.

PHCC cost assessment 12 months. EN.

Provider training documentation. Training and Booster. EN.

Provider Training questionnaire Training1. EN.

Provider Training questionnaire Booster 2. EN.

Study arms 3 (Short form programme)

Very Short Tally Sheet. EN.

Provided extended Tally Sheet. EN.

Patient consent to further questions. EN.

PHC Provider questionnaire 3 month follow up EN.

PHC Provider questionnaire 13 month follow up. EN.

Patient questionnaire 3 months and 13 months. EN.

PHCC cost assessment 12 months. EN.

Provider training documentation. Training and Booster. EN.

Provider Training questionnaire Training 1. EN.

Provider Training questionnaire Booster 2. EN.

Provider questionnaire 3 month follow up. EN.

Provider questionnaire 13 month follow up. EN.

Study arm 4 (Standard length programme)

Provided extended Tally Sheet. EN.

Patient consent to further questions. EN.

PHC Provider questionnaire 3 month follow up EN.

PHC Provider questionnaire 13 month follow up. EN.

Patient questionnaire 3 months and 13 months. EN.

PHCC cost assessment 12 months. EN.

Provider training documentation. Training and Booster. EN.

Provider Training questionnaire Booster 2. EN.

Short Tally Sheet. EN.

Provider questionnaire 3 month follow up. Standard version. EN

Provider Training questionnaire Training1. Standard version. EN

Provider Training questionnaire Training2. Standard version. EN

Provider Training questionnaire Booster. EN

Recruitment Instruments - English

Municipality – Data collection Sheet.

Primary Health Care Center - Data Collection Sheet.

Primary Health Care Provider – Contact Documentation.

The English versions of SCALA training materials are available here. (For these in Spanish, and the train the trainers (TNT) material, please see the ES outputs page.)