An evaluation of two school-based alcohol education programs (original) (raw)

Evaluation of an Elementary School-Based Alcohol Misuse Prevention Program

1986

The Alcohol Misuse Prevention Study (AMPS) presented an alcohol education program to fifth and sixth grade students based on social learning theory. The AMPS program introduced students to the concept of pressure (especially peer pressure) to misuse alcohol and to stra lies to effectively counter such pressure. The program was evaluated in 213 classrooms in six school districts with 4,911 students competing the first posttest, and 4,185 completing the second. Schools were randomly assigned to the condition pretest or no pretest; and to control, program, or program plus booster groups. Information was collected on students' knowledge about alcohol, health locus of control, self-esteem, and susceptibility to peer pressure. At the second posttest, 14 months after the program's implementation, a statistically significant effect was found on students' alcohol attitudes and knowledge. There were no significant differences between conditions on alcohol use and misuse, due to low preva.,ence in both groups. As students become seventh and eighth graders, significant effects are expected to appear in the third posttest when alcohol use and misuse are expected to rise.

Effectiveness of a High School Alcohol Misuse Prevention Program

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 1996

An alcohol misuse prevention curriculum for tenth-grade students was developed, implemented, and evaluated through twelfth grade with 1041 students from four school districts. The curriculum emphasized social pressures resistance training, immediate effects of alcohol, risks of alcohol misuse, and social pressures to misuse alcohol. There were desirable program effects on alcohol misuse prevention knowledge (p <0.001), alcohol misuse (p <0.02), and refusal skills (p ~0. 0 9). Gender by occasion differences were found on alcohol use, alcohol misuse, and driving after drinking, with boys' rates increasing more than those of girls. Exposure to a sixth-grade, as well as the tenth-grade, program did not result in better outcomes. Despite high levels of alcohol use among high school students, a tenth-grade curriculum can resutt in some desirable effects. Creative approaches are needed, however, especially for boys who tend to use and misuse alcohol at rates that increase more steeply than those of girls.

Alcohol prevention programs : an exploration of grade 11 students' perceptions

2010

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Effectiveness of public health programs for decreasing alcohol consumption

Patient Intelligence, 2011

Excessive alcohol consumption and the associated negative consequences are a major public health concern in the United States and throughout the world. Historically, there have been numerous attempts to develop policies and prevention programs aimed at decreasing high-risk alcohol use. Policy initiatives have demonstrated considerable effectiveness and include changes in the minimum legal drinking age, reductions in acceptable legal limits for blood alcohol concentration while operating a motor vehicle, as well as decreasing availability and access to alcohol for underage individuals. Primary prevention programs that have used exclusively educational approaches have received mixed results. Increasing effectiveness has been associated with prevention programs that have utilized a multi-component approach and have included educational initiatives with environmental changes.

Phases of Alcohol Problem Prevention Research

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 1999

studies and a discussion of relevant issues, including cost, special populations, methods, and dissemination. If systematically followed, this model has the potential to contribute to wider testing and dissemination of prevention interventions of known effectiveness.

Differential Effectiveness of an Elementary School-based Alcohol Misuse Prevention Program

Journal of School Health, 1989

An elementary school social skills/peer pressure resistance curriculum for the prevention of alcohol misuse was developed, implemented, and evaluated. Schools were randomly assigned to curriculum and control groups, with harf of each qroup pretested prior to intervention and all students posttested two months, 14 months, and 26 months following intervention. Students in grade five at the beginning of the study were randomly assigned to treatment, treatment plus booster, and control conditions. Students in grade six were randomly assigned to treatment and control conditions. Three way repeated measures analyses of covariance (treatment condition by type of prior drinking experience by occasion) were conducted for each grade level on indices of 'yrequency/quantity of alcohol use" and "total alcohol misuse.'' Results indicated the intervention was effective in reducing the rate of increase of alcohol use and misuse among grade six students who entered the study with prior unsupervised as well as supervised alcohol use. After corrections for intraclass correlations on ihe dependent variables. the significant finding regarding the alcohol misuse variable was maintained.

Prevention and treatment of alcohol-related problems

Academic Medicine, 1996

This article summarizes the major themes, conclusions and recommendations of a 2-year study conducted for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism by the Institute of Medicine. The study is devoted to the identification of research opportunities that will improve knowledge about the prevention and treatment of alcohol problems. In the first part of the report, the study committee examines the social and personal aspects of alcohol-related problems toward which prevention efforts are directed; delineates the features of a public health orientation that it deems most appropriate for the prevention task; discusses individual vulnerability to alcohol misuse; and reviews genetic9 developmental and social learning perspectives on prevention. In the second part of the report, which is devoted to treatment research, the committee considers the underlying philosophical issues as well as the formidable methodological problems in conducting treatment research. Central to this is a broad review of promising treatment modalities and the research needed for developing effective patient-treatment matching schemes. In the final part of the report, the committee concludes that cooperative multisite research efforts are indispensable to the implementation of the research directions it recommends. (J. Stud. Alcohol 53: 5-16, 1992) LCOHOL-RELATED PROBLEMS continue to exact a great toll on individuals and societies. In the United States, alcohol use is involved in nearly 100,000 deaths annually and plays a major role in numerous medical and social problems. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), which was given responsibility by Congress for fostering research on the prevention and treatment of alcoholism, asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to undertake a study to assess the cur