ArticleHealth education research2013
The impact of school alcohol policy on student drinking.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Impact of school policies on non-communicable disease risk factors - a systematic review.BMC public health · 2017Pooled it
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- Alcohol education in Ugandan primary schools: teaching approaches and learners' perspectives.BMC public health · 2025Article
- A pragmatic clinical effectiveness trial of a novel alternative to punishment for school-based substance use infractions: study protocol for the iDECIDE curriculum.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Individual and Contextual Characteristics Associated With Alcohol Use Among Brazilian Adolescents.International journal of public health · 2022Article
- Longitudinal Consequences of Adolescent Alcohol Use Under Different Policy Contexts in Australia and the United States.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2021Article
- "Tell Me How Much Your Friends Consume"-Personal, Behavioral, Social, and Attitudinal Factors Associated with Alcohol and Cannabis Use among European School Students.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Does Adolescent Alcohol Harm Minimization Policy Exposure Reduce Adult Alcohol Problems? A Cross-National Comparison.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2020Article
- School factors and student drinking in high schools: a cross-sectional study of school policies and party regulation.BMC public health · 2020Article
- What could keep young people away from alcohol and cigarettes? Findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Sexual behaviour in early adolescence: a cross-national comparison of Australian and United States youth.Australian journal of psychology · 2017Article
- The impact of school nonresponse on substance use prevalence estimates - Germany as a case study.The International journal on drug policy · 2016Article
- Longitudinal effects of school drug policies on student marijuana use in Washington State and Victoria, Australia.American journal of public health · 2015Article
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Abstract
Although it is common for secondary schools to implement alcohol policies to reduce alcohol misuse, there has been little evaluation of the efficacy of these policies. The purpose of this study was to test the impact of the degree and type of alcohol policy enforcement in state representative samples of secondary students in Washington State, USA, and Victoria, Australia (n = 1848). Multivariate logistic regressions were used to examine the prospective association between student reports of school alcohol policy in Grade 8 and self-reported alcohol use in Grade 9, controlling for age, gender, state, family socio-economic status and Grade 8 alcohol use. The likelihood of students drinking on school grounds was increased when students perceived lax policy enforcement. Student perceptions of harm minimization alcohol messages, abstinence alcohol messages and counselling for alcohol policy violators predicted reduced likelihood of binge drinking. Students perceiving harm minimization messages and counselling for alcohol policy violators had a reduced likelihood of experiencing alcohol-related harms. Perceptions of harsh penalties were unrelated to drinking behaviour. These results suggest that perceived policy enforcement may lessen drinking at school 1 year later and that harm minimization messages and counselling approaches may also lessen harmful drinking behaviours as harm minimization advocates suggest.
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