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Trial reportBMC public health2010

The reduction of intoxication and disorder in premises licensed to serve alcohol: an exploratory randomised controlled trial.

Simon C Moore, Iain R Brennan, Simon Murphy, Ellie Byrne, Susan N Moore, Jonathan P Shepherd, Laurence Moore

Open access · goldAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in BMC public health, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Simon C MooreViolence & Society Research Group, Cardiff School of Dentistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. mooresc2@cardiff.ac.uk
Iain R Brennan
Simon Murphy
Ellie Byrne
Susan N Moore
Jonathan P Shepherd
Laurence Moore
Cardiff University · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G0701758
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundLicensed premises offer a valuable point of intervention to reduce alcohol-related harm.

objectiveTo describe the research design for an exploratory trial examining the feasibility and acceptability of a premises-level intervention designed to reduce severe intoxication and related disorder. The study also aims to assess the feasibility of a potential future large scale effectiveness trial and provide information on key trial design parameters including inclusion criteria, premises recruitment methods, strategies to implement the intervention and trial design, outcome measures, data collection methods and intra-cluster correlations.

designA randomised controlled trial in licensed premises that had experienced at least one assault in the year preceding the intervention, documented in police or hospital Emergency Department (ED) records. Premises were recruited from four study areas by piloting four recruitment strategies of varying intensity. Thirty two licensed premises were grouped into matched pairs to reduce potential bias and randomly allocated to the control or intervention condition. The study included a nested process evaluation to provide information on intervention acceptability and implementation. Outcome measures included police-recorded violent incidents, assault-related attendances at each premises' local ED and patron Breath Alcohol Concentration assessed on exiting and entering study premises.

resultsThe most successful recruitment method involved local police licensing officers and yielded a 100% success rate. Police-records of violence provided the most appropriate source of data about disorder at the premises level.

conclusionThe methodology of an exploratory trial is presented and despite challenges presented by the study environment it is argued an exploratory trial is warranted. Initial investigations in recruitment methods suggest that study premises should be recruited with the assistance of police officers. Police data were of sufficient quality to identify disorder and street surveys are a feasible method for measuring intoxication at the individual level.

trial registrationUKCRN 7090; ISRCTN: 80875696.

fundingMedical Research Council (G0701758) to Simon Moore, Simon Murphy, Laurence Moore and Jonathan Shepherd.

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LicensureRestaurantsAlcoholic IntoxicationEmergency Service, HospitalFeasibility StudiesFocus GroupsHealth PromotionHumansInterviews as TopicMedical RecordsNew South WalesViolence

Identifiers

PMID20946634
PMCPMC2966462
OpenAlexW1992748116

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