Ce. Werch et al., Effects of a brief alcohol preventive intervention for youth attending school sports physical examinations, SUBST USE M, 35(3), 2000, pp. 421-432
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Public Health & Health Care Science","Clinical Psycology & Psychiatry
This pilot study examined the feasibility and efficacy of a brief alcohol m
isuse preventive intervention for 178 7th-9th grade junior high school stud
ents attending sports physical examinations at three schools during the Sum
mer of 1997. At 6-month posttest, fewer suburban intervention youth intende
d to use alcohol during the next 6 months (chi(2) = 7.01, 1 df, p = .01), a
nd fewer rural intervention youth used alcohol during the past 30 days (chi
(2) = 4.65, 1 df, p = .04), compared to control youth. When suburban and ru
ral school samples were collapsed, intervention youth had significantly low
er alcohol use on three of four measures than control subjects (p's < .05).