‘I don't know anyone that has two drinks a day’: Young people, alcohol and the government of pleasure

Harrison, Lyn; Kelly, Peter; Lindsay, Joanne Maree; Advocat, Jenny; Hickey, Christopher

doi:10.1080/13698575.2011.596190

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“…Qualitative methods contributed to the development of the videos in three key ways. First, the results of recent qualitative research highlighted a need for interventions that better address the concerns and motivations of young people and that use messages and media that are appealing to them (Brown & Gregg, 2012;de Visser et al, 2013;Fry, 2011;Harrison et al, 2011;Hutton, 2012;Jayne et al, 2010;Livingstone, Young & Manstead, 2011;Szmigin et al, 2011).…”

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“…Conventional campaigns also tend to focus on individual responsibility and ignore the group-based social nature of drinking (de Visser et al, 2013;Fry, 2011;Harrison et al, 2011;Hutton, 2012;Jayne et al, 2010;Szmigin et al, 2011). Therefore, campaigns that target individual harms arising from HED may be dismissed as irrelevant, particularly given that many are perceived to employ a patronizing, paternalistic, or preaching tone (de Visser et al, 2013).…”

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“…In recent qualitative research with young people, public health initiatives have been criticized for focusing too much on physical risks and harms to health -which young people tend not to worry about -and not giving sufficient attention to the pleasure arising from drinking -which is important to young drinkers (de Visser, Wheeler, Abraham & Smith, 2013;Fry, 2011;Harrison, Kelly, Lindsay, Advocat, & Hickey, 2011;Szmigin et al, 2008).…”

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“…Qualitative research has indicated that: long-term health effects are not sufficiently motivating to young people; extreme/shocking outcomes are dismissed as unlikely; a preaching/patronizing tone is counter-productive; and campaigns are often seen to be too obviously artificial/staged (de Visser et al, 2013;Fry, 2011;Harrison et al, 2011). Therefore, the video: used an informal "behind-the-scenes" style and a lighthearted tone to reduce defensiveness; presented non-drinkers and moderate drinkers as socially competent; and modeled effective strategies.…”

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Using qualitative methods within a mixed-methods approach to developing and evaluating interventions to address harmful alcohol use among young people.

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Health Psychology

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Objective: This paper illustrates how qualitative methods can be used in the development and evaluation of behavior change interventions. Although many campaigns advise young people to drink responsibly, few clarify how to convert this general advice into specific behavioral strategies. Resilience-based approaches argue that treating young non-drinkers and moderate drinkers as "experts" in responsible alcohol use may facilitate co-creation of acceptable interventions that focus on how to change behavior. Methods: Four distinct phases of intervention development were linked to past research and future developments.Results: First, analysis of correlates of alcohol use using data from a survey of 1412 people aged 16-21 indicated that alcohol harm-reduction interventions should help young people to develop skills and strategies to resist alcohol. Second, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of 25 interviews with people purposively-selected from among the survey sample identified general strategies and specific tactics used by young people to manage opportunities to drink. Third, insights from the first two phases and past qualitative research guided development of video resources to be use in school-based alcohol education to illustrate strategies and tactics for moderate-or non-use of alcohol. Fourth, 18 focus groups with students and teachers were used to evaluate the video: structured Thematic Analysis indicated that after revision the video would be a valuable addition to school-based alcohol education. Conclusions: Findings from the four phases highlight the value of using different qualitative and quantitative methods as part of a program of work designed to inform the development, refinement, and evaluation of health psychology interventions.

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Using qualitative methods within a mixed-methods approach to developing and evaluating interventions to address harmful alcohol use among young people.

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“…This, I would wager, is the most significant implication of the authors' discussion of the practice of 'wine-o-clock', which disrupts any simple consensus about the riskiness of alcohol use. Indeed, practice theories imply that 'wine-o-clock' may be understood just as readily in terms of health, recreation and wellbeing as risk or harm.Practice theories, in these ways, provide useful insights into why population efforts to reduce alcohol-related harms, including the promotion of safe-drinking guidelines, often fail [6,7], for practice theories expose the faulty assumptions that these interventions typically rest upon, particularly the assumed consensus regarding the therapeutic value of moderation. Safe drinking is a practice with discrete material, spatial, cultural and temporal elements [6]; it cannot be mandated by fiat.…”

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Practising drinking, practising health

Duff

2017

Addiction

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PRACTISING DRINKING, PRACTISING HEALTHThe consumption of alcohol is shaped everywhere by social norms, material settings, temporal rhythms and cultural meanings, even though the full measure of these impacts is difficult to assess. Quantitative analyses of alcohol consumption often overlook these aspects, emphasizing instead modifiable risk factors associated with the behaviour of individual drinkers.Meier, Warde & Holmes [1] seek to correct this oversight by offering the notion of practice as a methodological and epistemological alternative to more established approaches in alcohol studies. They are especially critical of approaches that emphasize the social determinants of variations in consumption within and between populations, and those that focus on the agency of individual drinkers, arguing that population interventions grounded in either orientation have 'delivered only limited public health gains ' [1]. What is most welcome about Meier et al.s' analysis is their insistence on the need for new quantitative approaches to studying alcohol consumption, rather than heeding the more common call for richer and more varied qualitative studies [2,3], which have had narrower impacts on the forms of knowledgemaking that underpin public health interventions. I do not regard this approach as dismissive of the value of qualitative research. Rather, I see it as recognition of the primacy of quantitative research in the design of public health interventions [4,5], with the corollary that more sensitive quantitative research models will probably have the greatest impact upon these interventions. Besides, few qualitative researchers with an interest in the contexts of alcohol consumption could quibble with Meier Meier et al.s' focus on the role of practice, even if few have been so bold as to find in extant theories of practice a means of transforming the epidemiology of alcohol use.However, I would encourage the authors to follow the implications of practice theories for public health interventions a little further by emphasizing how the focus on practice troubles the very objects and purpose of these interventions. The designation of particular patterns (or practices) of alcohol consumption as problems within contemporary public health discourses rests on an apparent consensus with two key features; one that Meier et al., acknowledge, and another that they do not. With respect to the first aspect, public health discussions of problems arising from the consumption of alcohol share the assumption that individuals are independent 'decision-makers' with 'substantial autonomy' [1] over their drinking behaviours. This is the major reason why, as Meier et al. note, public health interventions tend to be 'heavily influenced' by theories of behaviour change [1]. It reflects a consensus that individuals are the most important agents of change in any effort to transform drinking behaviours. Theories of practice confound this consensus by calling attention to the role of exogenous factors in mediating drinking behaviours.However, ...

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