TY - JOUR
AU - J. Homco
AU - C. Turner
AU - C. Vaught
AU - C. Crichley
AU - M. Thompson
AU - M. Shaw
AU - M. McCullough
AU - F. Okeke
AU - C. Kuplicki
AU - B. Lesselroth
A1 - 
AB - Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is an evidence-based process healthcare personnel use to screen, manage, and triage patients struggling with substance use. The process requires clinic staff to furnish patients with structured screening questions. Providers can then offer treatment and mental health referral when indicated. Our team recently deployed a digital tablet-based version of the SBIRT screening questions in primary care. However, we needed to assess patient-reported usability of our approach because negative perceptions could limit clinic adoption, patient completion of the process, and effective referral. We, therefore, conducted a usability evaluation of our digital SBIRT screening instrument using a cross-sectional patient survey. Most participants (64.2%) reported completing the screening questions in under five minutes, with no reports of completion times exceeding fifteen minutes. Our results suggest the tablet-based SBIRT screener is easy to understand and can be efficiently completed before a clinical encounter. Furthermore, patients believed the digital SBIRT screener increases clinician awareness of patient health issues and promotes positive action. These findings support the continued use, wider adoption, and integration of digital SBIRT tools in clinical settings.
AD - University of Oklahoma, School of Community Medicine, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.; University of Oklahoma, Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.; Florida State University, College of Medicine, Winter Haven, Florida, USA.; University of Victoria, School of Health Information Science, Victoria, Canada.
AN - 40357620
BT - Stud Health Technol Inform
C5 - Opioids & Substance Use; HIT & Telehealth
DA - May 12
DO - 10.3233/shti250258
DP - NLM
JF - Stud Health Technol Inform
LA - eng
N2 - Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is an evidence-based process healthcare personnel use to screen, manage, and triage patients struggling with substance use. The process requires clinic staff to furnish patients with structured screening questions. Providers can then offer treatment and mental health referral when indicated. Our team recently deployed a digital tablet-based version of the SBIRT screening questions in primary care. However, we needed to assess patient-reported usability of our approach because negative perceptions could limit clinic adoption, patient completion of the process, and effective referral. We, therefore, conducted a usability evaluation of our digital SBIRT screening instrument using a cross-sectional patient survey. Most participants (64.2%) reported completing the screening questions in under five minutes, with no reports of completion times exceeding fifteen minutes. Our results suggest the tablet-based SBIRT screener is easy to understand and can be efficiently completed before a clinical encounter. Furthermore, patients believed the digital SBIRT screener increases clinician awareness of patient health issues and promotes positive action. These findings support the continued use, wider adoption, and integration of digital SBIRT tools in clinical settings.
PY - 2025
SN - 0926-9630
SP - 152
EP - 156+
ST - Usability Testing a Context-Sensitive Strategy for Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment
T1 - Usability Testing a Context-Sensitive Strategy for Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment
T2 - Stud Health Technol Inform
TI - Usability Testing a Context-Sensitive Strategy for Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment
U1 - Opioids & Substance Use; HIT & Telehealth
U3 - 10.3233/shti250258
VL - 326
VO - 0926-9630
Y1 - 2025
ER -