Preventing binge drinking during early adolescence: one- and two-year follow-up of a school-based preventive intervention. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The authors examined the effectiveness of a school-based prevention program on reducing binge drinking in a sample of minority, inner-city, middle-school students. Rates of binge drinking were compared among youth who received the program beginning in the 7th grade (n = 1,713) and a control group (n = 1,328) that did not. The prevention program had protective effects in terms of binge drinking at the 1-year (8th grade) and 2-year (9th grade) follow-up assessments. The proportion of binge drinkers was over 50% lower in the intervention group relative to the control group at the follow-up assessments. There were also several significant program effects on proximal drinking variables, including drinking knowledge, pro-drinking attitudes, and peer drinking norms. These findings indicate that a school-based drug abuse prevention approach previously found to be effective among White youth significantly reduced binge drinking among urban minority youth.

publication date

  • December 1, 2001

Research

keywords

  • Alcohol Drinking
  • Alcoholic Intoxication
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0035199922

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1037//0893-164x.15.4.360

PubMed ID

  • 11767269

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 15

issue

  • 4