LONGITUDINAL EVALUATION OF AN ENHANCED ALCOHOL MISUSE PREVENTION STUDY (AMPS) CURRICULUM FOR GRADES 6-8

For students progressing from sixth to eighth grade, an enhanced alcoh ol Misuse Prevention Study (AMPS) curriculum that emphasized social pr essure resistance training, peer support, and norm-setting was develop ed, implemented, and evaluated. Schools were randomly assigned within communities to curriculum or control groups. Students were pretested e arly in sixth grade before the intervention and posttested at the end of sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Results indicated the curriculum was effective in increasing students' knowledge of curriculum materia l, and among the subgroup of students who had used alcohol unsupervise d by adults before the pretest, in reducing the rate of increase of al cohol misuse. The findings result from a replication of the analytic a pproach used with the initial AMPS cohort data.