Reports

Read A Qualitative Study of the Views of Alcohol Frequent Attenders at Royal Alexandra Hopsital, Renfrewshire, a new SHAAP-funded study. 

Read Getting in the spirit? Alcohol and the Scottish economy, a SHAAP-funded report by the Social Market Foundation. 

The survey was conducted online and promoted through the Scottish Football Supporters Association and a variety of social media channels. Responses were received between November and December 2022, with all responses individually data checked and validated. The total response was 287 individuals.

In May 2022, SHAAP conducted a survey with Scottish Women's Football National Perfomance League players aged 12 to 19 to understand their relationship with alcohol and sports. 

SHAAP commissioned research from the University of Stirling Institute for Social Marketing and Health which investigates the nature of sponsorship relations for professional football teams across countries with varied restrictions on alcohol marketing. Read the findings from the report Alcohol sponsorship of football: Examining the nature of sponsorship relations for professional football teams across countries with varied restrictions on alcohol marketing.

Read NCD Alliance Scotland Scotland’s Health: Preventing Harm Through Action, a joint report from SHAAP and Scottish health charity partners.

Read the new SHAAP report by Glasgow Caledonian University: What are LGBTQ+ people’s experiences of alcohol services in Scotland? A qualitative study of service users and service providers. This research investigates the experiences of LGBTQ+ people who have used alcohol services in Scotland, and the views of service providers. We will explore how services can be made more inclusive to more effectively support the LGBTQ+ community.

Read the University of Stirling, University of Dundee and SHAAP report: Alcohol management in Deep End practices. This research explored stakeholders’ experiences and perceptions of the management of alcohol problems in Deep End general practices in Glasgow via the Primary Care Alcohol Nurse Outreach Service (PCANOS) model.

Read the Alcohol marketing during the 2020 Six Nations Championship report. Prepared for Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP), Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS) and Alcohol Action Ireland (AAI) by the Institute for Social Marketing and Health, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, this research looks at the prevalence of alcohol marketing in sports. 

Read Non-Communicable Disease Prevention: Priorities for 2021/22, a joint report from SHAAP and Scottish health charity partners.

This important study, funded by SHAAP and conducted by Dr Fiona Cuthill and Dr Steph Grohmann of the University of Edinburgh School of Health in Social Science, assesses the experiences of, and perspectives regarding, harmful alcohol use among people seeking asylum and refugees in the UK.

Read the Rural Matters report. This report presents findings from a qualitative research study undertaken from 2019-2020. The report makes recommendations for research, policy and practice, in order to prevent alcohol harms and improve support for people and communities in remote and rural areas of Scotland.

Read the full background research conducted by the Institute for Social Marketing and Health at Stirling University for the AFS/SHAAP report: 'Time to blow the whistle on alcohol sports sponsorship', January 2020

Report from Alcohol Focus Scotland and SHAAP on research from Stirling University's Institute for Social Marketing and Health  illustrates the extent, nature and frequency of alcohol sponsorship in Scottish football and rugby. A key finding is the wraparound nature of alcohol branding at big events, making it impossible especially for children to avoid seeing alcohol references.

Meanings and importance of lived and living experience for alcohol and drug policy: Findings from a qualitative review - Research report published by SHAAP in February 2020.

This report presents findings from Work Package 4 of the FYFA project - a review of international policies and practices related to young people, alcohol, marketing and sport at an international level, including evidence gathering about effective practice in reducing harms.

SHAAP report on alcohol-related mortality researched and collated for the Scottish Government, and launched at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 26th October 2018.

The aim of this qualitative study was to identify what GPs across diverse areas of Scotland characterised as the facilitators and barriers to delivering an effective ABI based on their everyday general practice work.

This study aimed to provide an overview of the evidence for using remuneration systems for Alcohol Brief Interventions (ABIs) in primary care, to examine the availability of relevant data in Scotland and to explore the views of local and national stakeholders.