Findings from a trial social norms campaign in Welsh universities have been published in the journal Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention and Policy. An open access copy of the full article is available here. The study was commissioned by Alcohol Research UK, and carried out by researchers based at DECIPHer.
Process evaluation and feasibility study of In:tuition, a life skills education programme for young people aged 9-14 years
September 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In:tuition is an evidence based, life skills education programme for young people aged 9-14 developed by Drinkaware.
Parent-child intervention prevents heavy drinking in Dutch teens
November 22, 2011 By 2 Comments
In this Dutch study, promoting parental rule setting and classroom alcohol education together nearly halved the proportion of adolescents who went on to drink heavily. Rarely have such strong and sustained drinking prevention impacts been recorded from these types of interventions.
Investigating the Effectiveness of Education in Relation to Alcohol:
September 30, 2011 By 1 Comment
A Systematic Investigation of Critical Elements for Optimum Effectiveness of Promising Approaches and Delivery Methods in School and Family Linked Alcohol Education.
This review examined evidence for school and family linked alcohol education programmes to reduce or prevent the misuse of alcohol by young people.
Problem drinking curbed by EU-funded drug education curriculum
September 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The largest European drug education trial ever conducted tested whether US-style social influence programmes would prove effective in Europe. Among the successes were the reductions in problem drinking documented in this report.
Providing web-based feedback and social norms information to reduce student alcohol intake: A multisite investigation of Unitcheck
January 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Unhealthy alcohol use amongst university students is a major public health concern. Heavy alcohol intake among the student population has implications for the individual, educational institutions, and wider society. Across the world it has been reported that university students’ levels of alcohol consumption are higher than that of their non-university peers.
Use and Abuse of Alcohol in UK University Sport
November 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Previous evidence on the relationship between sport participation and alcohol consumption among students is ambiguous, with some studies reporting that students who take part in university sport drink less than their peers and other studies that they drink more. There has been a suggestion that involvement in sport can be a protection against hazardous drinking among students, but further information is required before this can be fully endorsed.
Student Choices and Alcohol Matters (SCAM)
November 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Levels of alcohol consumption and alcohol related problems in young people in the Western world continue to cause concern (World Health Organisation, 2010). Research indicates a pattern of ‘binge drinking’ or ‘drinking to get drunk’ and a greater risk of problematic drinking in young, especially single, adults generally.
Alcohol related social norm perceptions in university students: a review of effective interventions for change
August 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
There is growing recognition that students’ alcohol consumption is impacting on many aspects of university life, such as health, attrition rates and academic achievement. In the U.K, around 50% of young people now attend university and thus become exposed to this high alcohol consuming culture. Recent trends suggest that excessive drinking patterns that begin during student years are now continuing throughout adulthood.
Young people, alcohol and the news: preliminary findings
August 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In recent years, there has been widespread coverage of binge drinking among young people in the UK news media. However, there is only limited research into either how news reporting frames stories about alcohol (e.g. Hansen, 1986 and 2003; Pendleton et al., 1991), or whether this reflects the experiences of young drinkers. As part of a pilot study into methods for addressing these questions, newspaper and television coverage of alcohol-related stories were analysed to identify how those stories were contextualised, which sources were quoted, what images accompanied alcohol-related news stories and so forth. At the same time, a survey and focus groups were carried out to assess attitudes to both drinking and the coverage of alcohol in the news.
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