Trial reportAlcoholism, clinical and experimental research2012
Impact of a randomized campus/community trial to prevent high-risk drinking among college students.
Trial report in Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07627399 (Effectiveness of Implementing Best Care Practices in the Management of Patients With Acute Stroke in Conventional Hospitalization), which is not on this map. Cited by 25 papers.
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The trial behind it
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Effectiveness of Implementing Best Care Practices in the Management of Patients With Acute Stroke in Conventional Hospitalization: A Cluster-Randomized, Open, Stepped-Wedge Controlled Trial.
Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed, 54 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Changing course: supporting a shift to environmental strategies in a state prevention system.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2021Article
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- Magnitude and Trends in Heavy Episodic Drinking, Alcohol-Impaired Driving, and Alcohol-Related Mortality and Overdose Hospitalizations Among Emerging Adults of College Ages 18-24 in the United States, 1998-2014.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2017Article
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- The Method of Randomization for Cluster-Randomized Trials: Challenges of Including Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions.International journal of statistics in medical research · 2016Article
- Drinking Over the Lifespan: Focus on College Ages.Alcohol research : current reviews · 2016Review
- Party Characteristics, Drinking Settings, and College Students' Risk of Intoxication: A Multi-Campus Study.The journal of primary prevention · 2015Article
- What are young adults smoking in their hookahs? A latent class analysis of substances smoked.Addictive behaviors · 2014Article
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12 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundHigh-risk drinking by college students continues to pose a significant threat to public health. Despite increasing evidence of the contribution of community-level and campus-level environmental factors to high-risk drinking, there have been few rigorous tests of interventions that focus on changing these interlinked environments. The Study to Prevent Alcohol Related Consequences (SPARC) assessed the efficacy of a comprehensive intervention using a community organizing approach to implement environmental strategies in and around college campuses. The goal of SPARC was to reduce high-risk drinking and alcohol-related consequences among college students.
methodsTen universities in North Carolina were randomized to an Intervention or Comparison condition. Each Intervention school was assigned a campus/community organizer. The organizer worked to form a campus-community coalition, which developed and implemented a strategic plan to use environmental strategies to reduce high-risk drinking and its consequences. The intervention was implemented over a period of 3 years. Primary outcome measures were assessed using a web-based survey of students. Measures of high-risk drinking included number of days alcohol was consumed, number of days of binge drinking, and greatest number of drinks consumed (all in the past 30 days); and number of days one gets drunk in a typical week. Measures of alcohol-related consequences included indices of moderate consequences due to one's own drinking, severe consequences due to one's own drinking, interpersonal consequences due to others' drinking, and community consequences due to others' drinking (all using a past 30-day time frame). Measure of alcohol-related injuries included (i) experiencing alcohol-related injuries and (ii) alcohol-related injuries caused to others.
resultsWe found significant decreases in the Intervention group compared with the Comparison group in severe consequences due to students' own drinking and alcohol-related injuries caused to others. In secondary analyses, higher levels of implementation of the intervention were associated with reductions in interpersonal consequences due to others' drinking and alcohol-related injuries caused to others.
conclusionsA community organizing approach promoting implementation of environmental interventions can significantly affect high-risk drinking and its consequences among college students.
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