Youth Drinking
Conditions
Keywords
Örebro prevention program, Youth drinking
Brief summary
The Örebro prevention program is a brief (6 x 30 minutes)program administered to parents of 13-16 year old youths in regular parental meetings. The program aims to encourage parents to maintain a restrictive attitude towards youth drinking throughout their children's teenage years, and thereby postpone and reduce youth drinking. A previous quasi-experimental study by the program developers showed a sustained alcohol-specific restrictivity among parents exposed to the program, and also a reduction on drinking measures among the youths of the exposed parents (Koutakis, Stattin & Kerr, 2008). This study aims to investigate whether these effects are sustained also when the program has gone into wide dissemination in Sweden.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALÖrebro prevention program
6 presentations on alcohol-specific parenting practices to parents of 13-16 year olds youth
BEHAVIORALBusiness as usual
Regular alcohol prevention activities and curricula in Swedish schools
Sponsors
Swedish National Institute of Public Health
Alcohol Research Council of the Swedish Alcohol Retailing Monopoly
Karolinska Institutet
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
13 Years to 16 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Municipal schools in counties with local ÖPP program presenters, comprising grades 7-9, with at least two 7th grade classes in parallel, and with no previous experience of the Örebro prevention program. \-
Exclusion criteria
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Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Self-reported drunkenness | 12 months | Self-reported drunkenness among youth |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Self-reported alcohol consumption | 12 months | Self-reported alcohol consumption among youth |
Countries
Sweden
Outcome results
None listed