Effectiveness Bank user survey 2014

Your chance to have your say on the services provided at findings.org.uk

Thanks for completing this brief survey. Your comments will help us and our funders evaluate and improve the service. Just skip any questions you can't answer.

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* 1. What led you to access the EFFECTIVENESS BANK? (tick as many you like)

My work involves responding to drug and alcohol use/problems

I am training to do work which involves responding to drug and alcohol use/problems

Research, education or other academic activities

A personal problem (your own or someone else)

Some other reason

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* 2. In general terms, do/did you find the service useful?

1 No use at all

5 Extremely useful

Would you like to tell us why?

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* 3. Has anything you have read on this site influenced you or your colleagues’ thinking about how drug and alcohol use should be responded to? (tick as many you like)

Not really

Made me/us more confident that what we do is evidence-based

Made me/us less confident that what we do is evidence-based

Led me/us to reconsider how drug and alcohol use/problems are best responded to

Developed my/our thinking about how drug and alcohol use/problems are best responded to

Influenced how I/we actually respond to drug and alcohol use/problems or how we might respond in future

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* 4. When you click the links we send out usually you see one of our EFFECTIVENESS BANK analyses. Do these generally give you the information you want in the way you want it?

Yes

Can't say

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* Anything else you'd like to say about our analyses?

5. Matrices. In 2013 we introduced the Drug and Alcohol Treatment Matrices (click links to view). On each we built an online course – a weekly commentary we called 'matrix bites'. To view, go to the matrices, click a cell to open it, and unfold the bite using the link at the bottom. Whether or not you used these resources, please answer the following questions:

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* Did you use either or both of the matrices since they were developed in mid-2013?

No: treatment not my interest

No: some other reason

Yes: dipped in but rarely

Yes: several times

Yes: extensively

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* If you answered 'Yes' above, how useful did you find the matrices?

1 No use at all

5 Extremely useful

Would you like to tell us why?

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* Did you access any of the weekly matrix bites commentaries – the online courses we ran during 2014?

No: treatment not my interest

No: some other reason

Yes: dipped in but rarely

Yes: several times

Yes: extensively

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* If you answered 'Yes' above, how useful did you find the matrix bites?

1 No use at all

5 Extremely useful

Would you like to tell us why?

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* Would you use the matrices and bites more if you could be accredited for satisfactorily completing all or part of the matrix bites courses?

No: treatment not my interest

No: not interested in accreditation

Perhaps: It would depend on the accreditation (please explain below)

Yes: I'd try to complete the course

Would you like to explain further?

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* 6. Your chance to tell us in your own words how we are doing and how you would like us to develop our service

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* 7. Thanks for helping us improve our service. If you would like us to respond to your comments or are happy for us to get in touch leave your e-mail address here: