Maria C Bodin1, Anna K Strandberg. 1. STAD, Centre for Psychiatry Research Stockholm, Stockholm County Council Health Care Provision/Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. maria.bodin@ki.se
Abstract
AIMS: This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of the Örebro prevention programme (ÖPP), an alcohol misuse prevention programme that aims to reduce youth drinking by changing parental behaviour. DESIGN: Cluster-randomized trial, with schools assigned randomly to the ÖPP or no intervention. SETTING:Forty municipal schools in 13 counties in Sweden. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 1752 students in the 7th grade and 1314 parents were assessed at baseline. Students' follow-up rates in the 8th and 9th grades were 92.1% and 88.4%, respectively. MEASUREMENTS: Classroom questionnaires to students and postal questionnaires to parents were administered before randomization and 12 and 30 months post-baseline. FINDINGS: Two-level logistic regression models, under four different methods of addressing the problem of loss to follow-up, revealed a statistically significant programme effect for only one of three drinking outcomes under one loss-to-follow-up method, and that effect was observed only at the 12-month follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: The Örebro prevention programme as currently delivered in Sweden does not appear to reduce or delay youth drunkenness.
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AIMS: This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of the Örebro prevention programme (ÖPP), an alcohol misuse prevention programme that aims to reduce youth drinking by changing parental behaviour. DESIGN: Cluster-randomized trial, with schools assigned randomly to the ÖPP or no intervention. SETTING: Forty municipal schools in 13 counties in Sweden. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 1752 students in the 7th grade and 1314 parents were assessed at baseline. Students' follow-up rates in the 8th and 9th grades were 92.1% and 88.4%, respectively. MEASUREMENTS: Classroom questionnaires to students and postal questionnaires to parents were administered before randomization and 12 and 30 months post-baseline. FINDINGS: Two-level logistic regression models, under four different methods of addressing the problem of loss to follow-up, revealed a statistically significant programme effect for only one of three drinking outcomes under one loss-to-follow-up method, and that effect was observed only at the 12-month follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: The Örebro prevention programme as currently delivered in Sweden does not appear to reduce or delay youth drunkenness.
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