Effectiveness of mass media campaigns for reducing drinking and driving and alcohol-involved crashes

Elder, Randy; Shults, Ruth A.; Sleet, David A.; Nichols, James L.; Thompson, Robert S.; Rajab, Warda

doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2004.03.002

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“…157 Other programs may also be effective in reducing the prevalence of teen drinking and driving. Systematic reviews of the relevant research literature found that sobriety checkpoints and mass media campaigns 158 can reduce rates of alcohol-related traffic crashes. However, the specific effects on drivers Ͻ21 years of age have not been analyzed.…”

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A Developmental Perspective on Alcohol and Youths 16 to 20 Years of Age

Brown¹,

McGue²,

et al. 2008

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Late adolescence (ie, 16 -20 years of age) is a period characterized by escalation of drinking and alcohol use problems for many and by the onset of an alcohol use disorder for some. This heightened period of vulnerability is a joint consequence of the continuity of risk from earlier developmental stages and the unique neurologic, cognitive, and social changes that occur in late adolescence. We review the normative neurologic, cognitive, and social changes that typically occur in late adolescence, and we discuss the evidence for the impact of these transitions on individual drinking trajectories. We also describe evidence linking alcohol abuse in late adolescence with neurologic damage and social impairments, and we discuss whether these are the bases for the association of adolescent drinking with increased risks of mental health, substance abuse, and social problems in adulthood. Finally, we discuss both the challenges and successes in the treatment and prevention of adolescent drinking problems. I N THE UNITED States, alcohol involvement sometimes starts but more often escalates between 16 and 20 years of age, when youths are also experiencing dramatic physical, emotional, and social changes. Specifically, a variety of forms of hazardous drinking emerge during middle to late adolescence and, for many youths, these problematic patterns of drinking continue to escalate through 18 to 20 years of age, the period of greatest risk for the onset of an alcohol use disorder (AUD).In seeking to understand youth development and alcohol involvement, it is important to consider all dimensions of functioning, because the interrelated cognitive, biological, social, and affective changes that occur during adolescence not only affect each another but also influence an individual's risk of problem drinking. In particular, the timing, sequence, and synchrony of developmentally specific transitions can affect how well youths master new roles, as well as continuities and discontinuities in their behavior. Therefore, developmental models representing a range of theoretical orientations, including systems theory, behavioral genetics, and developmental psychopathology, hold great promise for advancing our understanding of the processes that underlie adolescent changes, including the emergence of alcohol use and abuse.The need for developmental approaches is underscored by the existence of a consistent body of research showing that the escalation in drinking and the emergence of AUDs in middle and late adolescence have behavioral, social, and biological roots from earlier developmental stages. Moreover, it is becoming increasingly clear that alcohol involvement in adolescence has both short-and long-term effects on health and well-being at later developmental stages. Importantly, the consequences of adolescent drinking seem to differ from those associated with adult drinking, because there is increasing evidence that adolescents are especially vulnerable to the adverse effects of heavy alcohol use on both biological and socia...

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Section: Adolescent Drinking and Drivingmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Developmental Perspective on Alcohol and Youths 16 to 20 Years of Age

Brown¹,

McGue²,

et al. 2008

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“…3,4 Since then, individual states and communities have implemented a broad range of strategies to reduce alcoholimpaired driving. Other systematic reviews in this series have summarized the effectiveness of some of the common single-component interventions, including various laws, 5,6 sobriety checkpoints, [5][6][7] mass media campaigns, 8 designated driver programs, 9 and school-based programs. 10 In practice, individual interventions are combined to form multicomponent programs.…”

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Effectiveness of Multicomponent Programs with Community Mobilization for Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving

Shults

Elder²,

Nichols

et al. 2009

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

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“…It has been one of the most commonly used statistical procedures to evaluate traffic safety interventions or other policies that can affect road safety (e.g. AbdelAty and Abdelwahab, 2004;Blose and Holder, 1987;Elder et al, 2004;Elder et al, 2002;Gruenewald and Ponicki, 1995;Hagge and Romanowicz, 1996;Hingson et al, 2000;Holder and Wagenaar, 1994;Holder et al, 2000;Langley et al, 1996;Mayhew et al, 2001;Murray et al, 1993;Nathens et al, 2000;Vernon et al, 2004;Voas et al, 1997). Indeed, various applied researchers have written specifically on the value of using time series analyses in intervention or evaluation research (Biglan et al, 2000;Gruenewald, 1997;Rehm and Gmel, 2001) Often applied researchers are under pressure to evaluate the impact of a traffic safety intervention soon after its implementation.…”

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Power computations in time series analyses for traffic safety interventions

McLeod

Vingilis²

2008

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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The evaluation of traffic safety interventions or other policies that can affect road safety often requires the collection of administrative time series data, such as monthly motor vehicle collision data that may be difficult and/or expensive to collect. Furthermore, since policy decisions may be based on the results found from the intervention analysis of the policy, it is important to ensure that the statistical tests have enough power, that is, that we have collected enough time series data both before and after the intervention so that a meaningful change in the series will likely be detected. In this short paper we present a simple methodology for doing this. It is expected that the methodology presented will be useful for sample size determination in a wide variety of traffic safety intervention analysis applications. Our method is illustrated with a proposed traffic safety study that was funded by NIH.

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Effectiveness of mass media campaigns for reducing drinking and driving and alcohol-involved crashes

Cited by 344 publications

References 23 publications

A Developmental Perspective on Alcohol and Youths 16 to 20 Years of Age

A Developmental Perspective on Alcohol and Youths 16 to 20 Years of Age

Effectiveness of Multicomponent Programs with Community Mobilization for Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving

Power computations in time series analyses for traffic safety interventions

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