What Drink Rethink includes
When your campus takes part in Drink Rethink, you receive a range of support before, during and after the delivery of the intervention. The SOS UK wellbeing team will help you to consider when and where the intervention should take place, and .
Drink Rethink participation provides your campus with:
- Support and resources for recruiting student ambassadors: Including a role profile, email and social media templates, and a set of recruitment screener questions to ensure students with a range of characteristics are recruited.
- Student ambassador training: Drink Rethink Ambassador training equips students with the knowledge and skills to engage with students, complete the AUDIT tool with participants and give the appropriate advice leaflet based on the results.
- Access to online questionnaires: Including the online AUDIT tool used during the delivery of the intervention, as well as a three week follow up survey.
- A bespoke follow-up report: The AUDIT results, as well as the follow-up questionnaires, will be summarised through an engaging report showing the initial reported drinking of the students, including their feedback following the intervention.
More about Drink Rethink
Drink Rethink is a peer-to-peer behaviour change programme that equips students to tackle alcohol-related harm. The intervention is delivered on campus, by trained Drink Rethink Ambassadors who use a nationally recognised evidence-based behaviour change tool (Identification and Brief Advice – IBA).
Drink Rethink adapts approaches used with the public in informal settings for a student audience, and draws on evidence which suggests that interventions conducted within a university setting and by non-healthcare professionals show greater efficacy compared to similar delivery in other non-health-related settings.
Drink Rethink adopts a preventative approach that is cost-effective in reducing the risks associated with drinking
Research shows that one in eight “Increasing” and “Higher Risk: drinkers who are screened and receive brief advice will reduce to within Lower Risk levels (Moyer et al. 2012). Research by Public Health England also suggests that for every “Increasing” or “Higher Risk” drinker who receives Identification and Brief Advice (IBA), there is a £27 return to the wider health and care economy.