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Effects on alcohol use of a Swedish school-based prevention program for early adolescents: a longitudinal study

BACKGROUND: The aim of the study was to address the lack of evaluations of school-based substance use prevention programs and to conduct a quasi-experimental evaluation of the alcohol use part of the Triad intervention. METHODS: Eleven Swedish intervention schools (285 pupils) and three control scho...

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Autores principales: Beckman, Linda, Svensson, Mikael, Geidne, Susanna, Eriksson, Charli
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5209812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28049504
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3947-3
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author Beckman, Linda
Svensson, Mikael
Geidne, Susanna
Eriksson, Charli
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description BACKGROUND: The aim of the study was to address the lack of evaluations of school-based substance use prevention programs and to conduct a quasi-experimental evaluation of the alcohol use part of the Triad intervention. METHODS: Eleven Swedish intervention schools (285 pupils) and three control schools (159 pupils) participated in the evaluation. Baseline measurements were conducted in 2011 before the alcohol part in the prevention program was implemented in the intervention schools (school year 6, ages 12–13). We estimated an Intention-To-Treat (ITT) Difference-in-Difference (DD) model to analyze the effectiveness of the intervention on subsequent alcohol use measured in grades 7, 8 and 9. RESULTS: The main results show no effect on the likelihood of drinking alcohol or drinking to intoxication. CONCLUSIONS: The lack of positive effects highlights the need for policy-makers and public health officials need to carefully consider and evaluate prevention programs in order to ensure that they are worthwhile from school, health, and societal perspectives. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12889-016-3947-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-52098122017-01-04 Effects on alcohol use of a Swedish school-based prevention program for early adolescents: a longitudinal study Beckman, Linda Svensson, Mikael Geidne, Susanna Eriksson, Charli BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: The aim of the study was to address the lack of evaluations of school-based substance use prevention programs and to conduct a quasi-experimental evaluation of the alcohol use part of the Triad intervention. METHODS: Eleven Swedish intervention schools (285 pupils) and three control schools (159 pupils) participated in the evaluation. Baseline measurements were conducted in 2011 before the alcohol part in the prevention program was implemented in the intervention schools (school year 6, ages 12–13). We estimated an Intention-To-Treat (ITT) Difference-in-Difference (DD) model to analyze the effectiveness of the intervention on subsequent alcohol use measured in grades 7, 8 and 9. RESULTS: The main results show no effect on the likelihood of drinking alcohol or drinking to intoxication. CONCLUSIONS: The lack of positive effects highlights the need for policy-makers and public health officials need to carefully consider and evaluate prevention programs in order to ensure that they are worthwhile from school, health, and societal perspectives. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12889-016-3947-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2017-01-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5209812/ /pubmed/28049504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3947-3 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Effects on alcohol use of a Swedish school-based prevention program for early adolescents: a longitudinal study
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title_short Effects on alcohol use of a Swedish school-based prevention program for early adolescents: a longitudinal study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5209812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28049504
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3947-3
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