Effects of the Örebro Prevention Program on Youth Drinking
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Karolinska Institutet
- Enrollment
- 1,752
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Self-reported drunkenness
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The Örebro prevention program is a brief (6 x 30 minutes)program administered to parents of 13-16 year old youths in regular parental meetings. The program aims to encourage parents to maintain a restrictive attitude towards youth drinking throughout their children's teenage years, and thereby postpone and reduce youth drinking. A previous quasi-experimental study by the program developers showed a sustained alcohol-specific restrictivity among parents exposed to the program, and also a reduction on drinking measures among the youths of the exposed parents (Koutakis, Stattin & Kerr, 2008). This study aims to investigate whether these effects are sustained also when the program has gone into wide dissemination in Sweden.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Prevention
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 13 Years to 16 Years (Child)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •Municipal schools in counties with local ÖPP program presenters, comprising grades 7-9, with at least two 7th grade classes in parallel, and with no previous experience of the Örebro prevention program.
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Arms & Interventions
Örebro prevention program
Intervention: Örebro prevention program (Behavioral)
Control
Business as usual
Intervention: Business as usual (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Self-reported drunkenness
Time Frame: 30 months
Self-reported drunkenness among youth
Self-reported drunkenness
Time Frame: 12 months
Self-reported drunkenness among youth
Secondary Outcomes
- Self-reported alcohol consumption(30 months)
- Self-reported alcohol consumption(12 months)