Welcome to Effectiveness Bank alerts from Drug and Alcohol Findings, bringing you news of research
relevant to improving outcomes from drug or alcohol interventions in the UK.
A new bulletin has been published collecting together the latest documents added to the
Effectiveness Bank. This bulletin highlights three studies of a popular Swedish intervention to
prevent heavy teen drinking based on presentations at routine school parent meetings. In the first
trial it was highly effective but in the two later trials not effective or only with alcohol lessons
for the children. This series of studies raises issues not just about the intervention, but about
the generalisability of developer-led initial trials. To view the whole bulletin click the following
link:
http://findings.org.uk/docs/bulletins/Bull_16_08_11.php
or click the links below to view an entry in the bulletin. If clicking does not work, paste the link
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*revised* PARENTING INTERVENTION HAS REMARKABLE IMPACT ON TEEN DRUNKENNESS
In this initial developer-led trial in one county in Sweden, routine parent-school meetings
encouraging commitment to take a strong stand against underage drinking had a remarkable impact on
adolescent drunkenness.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Koutakis_N_1.txt
*new* NATIONAL SWEDISH TRIAL FAILS TO REPLICATE INITIAL FINDINGS
This national trial set out to test whether initial findings could be replicated in a study
conducted by researchers not involved in the development of the programme and using the current
widely disseminated version of the programme. It flatly contradicted the earlier trial.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Bodin_MC_4.cab
SUPPLEMENTING PARENT INTERVENTION WITH ALCOHOL LESSONS WORKS FOR DUTCH TEENS
Dutch researchers took the Swedish parent intervention and tried it with and without alcohol
prevention lessons for the children. On their own both lessons and parenting intervention were
ineffective, but together they nearly halved the proportion of adolescents who went on to drink
heavily. Rarely have such strong and sustained drinking prevention impacts been recorded from these
types of interventions.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Koning_IM_4.txt
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