Collaborative Alcohol Care in Hull: Alcohol and Cognition
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Understanding the prevalence, coexisting conditions and care offered to adults admitted to hospital with coexisting alcohol use disorders and cognitive impairment
IRAS ID
332678
Contact name
Philippa Case
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Hull
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 5 months, 29 days
Research summary
People with alcohol use disorders sometimes also have problems with thinking, understanding or memory (cognition). These problems can make accessing help more challenging. We want to understand more about people in hospital who experience both these problems, including the kind of care they receive.
To do this, we will invite people who have been identified by their clinical team as having a possible alcohol use disorder to complete some questionnaires on alcohol consumption, cognition, common mental health problems, and service use; plus some questions about personal characteristics, health conditions and behaviours and living situation. People will have the option of allowing researchers to access their medical records for their current and previous admissions in the last five years to obtain the diagnoses associated with those admissions.
The questionnaires will allow us to see how many hospital patients with an alcohol use disorder also have cognitive problems, what other health problems people commonly experience, and what types of health and social care services people use. By looking at people’s health records for their current admission, we will see if their cognitive problems had been identified by the clinical team prior to their participation in the research, and we will look at what care and discharge planning is offered to people with alcohol use disorder and cognitive problems. By looking at hospital admissions over the last 5 years, we hope to see whether there is any pattern to the frequency or diagnoses linked to the previous admissions of people with alcohol use disorder and cognitive problems. We hope this could help us identify people with these types of problem earlier in future.
Anonymised findings will be shared directly with health and social care providers and commissioners in the region to look at how the needs of people with alcohol use disorder and cognitive impairment can be met. They will also be shared nationally.
REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - Bradford Leeds Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
25/YH/0060
Date of REC Opinion
20 Mar 2025
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion