None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The primary purpose of the sudy is to reduce alcohol-related problems in selected rural communities in NSW by sytematically implementing a number of interventions across the whole community, involving numerous community groups, such as schools, police, health workers, GPs and road safety officers. It is anticipated that the communities involved in this process will reduce their number of alcohol-related problems by more than similar communities that are not involved in this process.
Interventions
This trial compares a systematic, community-wide approach to reducing alcohol-related problems (including health, police, legal and education groups) in experimental communities, versus 'usual practice' in matched control communities. The intervention will comprise a number of simultaneo
This trial compares a systematic, community-wide approach to reducing alcohol-related problems (including health, police, legal and education groups) in experimental communities, versus 'usual practice' in matched control communities. The intervention will comprise a number of simultaneously implemented strategies over a three to four year period, including feedback of alcohol-related information via local media, high school education sessions, GP training in brief intervention, vocational programs targeting high-risk individuals and hospital-based alcohol interventions.
Sponsors
The University of Newcastle
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Communities must be in NSW; have a population size between 8,000 and 20,000
Exclusion criteria
Communities must be more than 70km from a major urban or regional centre; experimental and control communities must be at least 100km apart; and communities must not be involved in any other community-wide intervention studies.
Outcome results
None listed