Trial reportAmerican journal of community psychology2013
Reducing youth access to alcohol: findings from a community-based randomized trial.
Trial report in American journal of community psychology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 67 citations in OpenAlex.
- Community-Based Environmental Interventions to Prevent Alcohol Use in Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Drug and alcohol review · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of the Universal Prevention Curriculum for Schools on Substance Use Among Peruvian Adolescents: A Randomized Trial.Journal of drug education · 2022Trial
- A community intervention to reduce alcohol consumption and drunkenness among adolescents in Sweden: a quasi-experiment.BMC public health · 2021Trial
- Effects of a Community-Level Intervention on Alcohol-Related Motor Vehicle Crashes in California Cities: A Randomized Trial.American journal of preventive medicine · 2021Trial
- A Group Randomized Trial of the Stop Service to Obviously-Impaired Patrons (S-STOP) Program to Prevent Overservice in Bars and Restaurants in College Communities.Substance use & misuse · 2021Trial
- Effects of a responsible retailing mystery shop intervention on age verification by servers and clerks in alcohol outlets: A cluster randomised cross-over trial.Drug and alcohol review · 2018Trial
- Trial protocol: a clustered, randomised, longitudinal, type 2 translational trial of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm among adolescents in Australia.BMC public health · 2018Trial
- Multilevel Prevention Trial of Alcohol Use Among American Indian and White High School Students in the Cherokee Nation.American journal of public health · 2017Trial
- Exposure to Opportunities for Use Moderates the Associations of Descriptive Norms and Perceived Risk with Alcohol and Cannabis Use and Simultaneous Use.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2026Article
- Too young to pour: the global crisis of underage alcohol use.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- A Component Evaluation of a Randomised Control Community Intervention to Reduce Adolescent Alcohol Use in Australia.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022Article
- Alcohol-related deaths among young passengers: An analysis of national alcohol-related fatal crashes.Journal of safety research · 2021Article
- Relationships Between Social Host Policies, Youth Drinking Contexts, and Age.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2021Article
- A National Cost Analysis of Community Interventions to Prevent Underage Drinking and Prescription Drug Misuse.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2021Article
- Alcohol policy compliance among retailers in Bhutan: a multisite community intervention study.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Effectiveness of a Community-Based Intervention to Increase Supermarket Vendors' Compliance with Age Restrictions for Alcohol Sales in Spain: A Pilot Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Community Awareness of Outreach Efforts to Reduce Underage Drinking on California Indian Reservations.American Indian and Alaska native mental health research (Online) · 2020Article
- Exposure to alcohol outlets, alcohol access, and alcohol consumption among adolescents.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2019Article
- Design and outcome measures for the AB InBev Global Smart Drinking Goals evaluation.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2019Article
- Behavioral Science and the Prevention of Adolescent Substance Abuse.Perspectives on behavior science · 2019Article
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Abstract
Underage drinking continues to be an important public health problem and a challenge to the substance abuse prevention field. Community-based interventions designed to more rigorously control underage access to alcohol through retailer education and greater enforcement of underage drinking laws have been advocated as potentially effective strategies to help address this problem, but studies designed to evaluate such interventions are sparse. To address this issue we conducted a randomized trial involving 36 communities to test the combined effectiveness of five interrelated intervention components designed to reduce underage access to alcohol. The intervention was found to be effective in reducing the likelihood that retail clerks would sell alcohol to underage-looking buyers, but did not reduce underage drinking or the perceived availability of alcohol among high school students. Post hoc analyses, however, revealed significant associations between the level of underage drinking law enforcement in the intervention communities and reductions in both 30-day use of alcohol and binge drinking. The findings highlight the difficulty in reducing youth drinking even when efforts to curtail retail access are successful. Study findings also suggest that high intensity implementation of underage drinking law enforcement can reduce underage drinking. Any such effects of enhanced enforcement on underage drinking appear to be more directly attributable to an increase in perceived likelihood of enforcement and the resultant perceived inconveniences and/or sanctions to potential drinkers, than to a reduction in access to alcohol per se.
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