Trial reportBMC public health2023
Effects of a multi-component alcohol prevention program in the workplace on hazardous alcohol use among employees.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- From policies to promotion: managers' views on opportunities for alcohol prevention at work.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2026Article
- Alcohol Consumption at Work in Construction Workers Employed in Small Italian Companies.La Medicina del lavoro · 2026Article
- Psychosocial correlates of co-workers' responses to alcohol problems in the workplace - a cross-sectional survey among medical personnel in Poland.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2025Article
- Shifting cultures of silence: a knowledge-integrated learning approach to organisational responsiveness on alcohol prevention - a longitudinal qualitative process study in Swedish workplaces.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Universal alcohol prevention in the workplaces - does it matter?Work (Reading, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Risk factors for harmful alcohol consumption among employees and intervention strategies used in the workplace: current state of knowledge based on a literature review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe workplace can be affected negatively by hazardous alcohol use, and intervening at an early stage remains a challenge. Recently, a multi-component alcohol prevention program, Alcohol Policy and Managers' skills Training (hereafter, 'APMaT'), was delivered at the organizational level. In a previous outcome evaluation, APMaT appeared to be effective at the managerial level. The current study takes a step further by aiming to evaluate the effectiveness of APMaT in decreasing the alcohol risk level among employees.
methodsData from 853 employees (control: n = 586; intervention: n = 267) were gathered through a cluster-randomized study. To analyze changes in the odds of hazardous alcohol use among employees, multilevel logistic regression was applied using group (control vs. intervention), time (baseline vs. 12-month follow-up), and the multiplicative interaction term (group × time) as the main predictors. The intervention effect was further adjusted for sociodemographic characteristics and policy awareness.
resultsNo statistically significant difference was observed in the odds of hazardous alcohol use, although employees in the intervention group showed a larger decrease compared to the control group. This remained even after adjusting for several factors, including the sociodemographic factors and policy awareness.
conclusionsThe findings are insufficient to determine the effectiveness of APMaT at the employee level at the current stage of the evaluation. Future studies should strive to identify issues with implementation processes in workplace-based alcohol interventions.
trial registrationThe trial was retrospectively registered on 11/10/2019; ISCRTN ID: ISRCTN17250048.
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