None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The Research Team recently conducted a randomised controlled trial demonstrating that a capacity building intervention (‘Good Sports’) was effective in increasing compliance of licensed community football clubs with liquor licensing laws, and reducing excessive alcohol consumption by club members. If the benefits of such interventions are to be ongoing, the changes adopted by sporting clubs need to be sustained over time. Research that describes the sustainability of health promoting policies and practices in community settings generally, and in sports clubs specifically, is limited. The proposed research will be the first randomised trial investigating the effectiveness of web-based intervention in sustaining best-practice alcohol management practices by community sport clubs.
Interventions
The intervention will consist of a web-based sustainability support system for maintaining best-practice alcohol management practices.
The web-based intervention will include the following evidence-based strategies:
1. Club champion – Telephone contacts at the start of each season will be conducted between research staff and club representatives to identify an individual in the club with positional or personal authority (preferably a member of the club executive committee) who has the appropria
The intervention will consist of a web-based sustainability support system for maintaining best-practice alcohol management practices. The web-based intervention will include the following evidence-based strategies: 1. Club champion – Telephone contacts at the start of each season will be conducted between research staff and club representatives to identify an individual in the club with positional or personal authority (preferably a member of the club executive committee) who has the appropriate skills and experience and is motivated to act as the project champion. Club champions will primarily engage with the web-based program on behalf of the club and co-ordinate activity within the club to ensure the sustainability of the clubs alcohol management practices. The program will guide the champion to complete key project sustainability activities each year. 2. Executive support – the web-based program will encourage the club representative to re-affirm the clubs commitment to sustaining the clubs’ alcohol management practices via endorsement of an alcohol management policy and communicating club expectations regarding alcohol management to members. 3. Training – The web-based program will provide a series of on-line training modules. The number and length of training modules will be determined following pilot testing. 4. Tools and resources – The web-based intervention will provide printable instructional materials, sample policies, planning templates, and self- assessment forms to allow self-monitoring of maintenance of alcohol management practices. 5. Systems and prompts – The web-based program will utilise electronic reminders (e.g. text messaging and emails) to prompt key sustainability task completion each year. 6. Communication and marketing- The project champion will be encouraged via the web-based system to send electronic newsletters to club members incorporating information regarding responsible alcohol practices at the club. The intervention will be implemented for two years between baseline data collection (and randomisation) and post-intervention data collection. Intervention adherence will be monitored through reports generated through the web-based software, which will monitor training completion, etc.
Sponsors
The University of Newcastle
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Eligibility criteria for sporting clubs: - are a non-elite senior community Australian Rules (AFL), Rugby League, Rugby Union or Soccer club; - have held Level 3 accreditation with the Australian Drug Foundation's Good Sports program for a period of at least 12 months; - are undertaking at least 80% of the alcohol management practices required by the program; - hold a valid liquor licence and sell alcohol; - are located within the state of Victoria or the Hunter New England Region of the state of New South Wales, Australia; and - have access to the internet. Eligibility criteria for sporting club members: - are currently affiliated with a participating sporting club (eg. player, spectator, official); - are over 18 years of age; - speak English.
Exclusion criteria
Do not satisfy the above listed inclusion criteria.
Outcome results
None listed