Community prevention trials for alcohol problems : methodological issues

This book presents a meta-modelling framework for estimating the effects of community prevention trials on alcohol problems and some alternative models based on Relative Risk Regression suggest that community-based interventions are more effective at reducing alcohol problems than face-to-face interventions.

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Foreword by Enoch Gordis Introduction Emergent Agendas for Alcohol Prevention Research by Jan Howard Definitions of Communities and Alcohol Problems What is a Community and what are the Implications for Prevention Trials for Reducing Alcohol Problems? by Harold D. Holder Candidate Alcohol Problems and Implications for Measurement: General Alcohol Problems, Outcome Measures, Instrumentation, and Surrogates by Robert F. Saltz, Paul J. Gruenewald, and Michael Hennessy Lessons and Experiences from Community Trials in Other Health Fields Phases for Developing Community Trials: Lessons for Control of Alcohol Problems from Research in Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, and Adolescent Health by John W. Farquhar and Stephen P. Fortmann Designs Employed in Community Heart Disease and Cancer Prevention Projects by Thomas M. Lasater Lessons from Early Community Prevention Efforts for Alcohol Abuse Focusing on the Drinking Environment or the High-Risk Drinker in Prevention Projects: Limitations and Opportunities by Norman Giesbrecht and Ann Pederson Integrating Alcohol Abuse Prevention into Community Programs for Other Health Problems: Issues and Experiences by Alfred McAlister and Elizabeth Edmundson Prevention Experiments in the Context of Ongoing Community Process: Opportunities or Obstacles for Research by Robert L. Stout Research Designs, Methods, and Analytic Models Estimating the Effects of Community Prevention Trials: Alternative Designs and Methods by Charles S. Reichardt Case-Control Studies: Can They Evaluate Preventive Measures for Reducing Alcohol Problems? by Cornelia J. Baines Some Alternative Models Based on Relative Risk Regression for the Analysis of Community-Based Intervention Studies by Steven G. Self Community Prevention Programs as Natural Experiments by H. Lawrence Ross Implementing Research Designs Protecting the Scientific Integrity of Community Intervention Studies: Confronting Social Realities by Jan Howard and Ivan Barofsky Undertaking a Community Prevention Trial to Reduce Alcohol Problems: Translating Theoretical Models into Action by Harold D. Holder Insights, Caveats, and Alternative Research Agendas Promoting Comprehensive Interventions by Lawrence W. Green Confronting Drinking Cultures by Ernestine Vanderveen Targeting Consumption as an Endpoint by Thomas C. Harford Focusing on Community Structure and Process by Marjorie A. Gutman Clarifying Concepts and Terminology by David P. Byar Replicating Community Studies by Lawrence S. Freedman Learning from Experience by Charles S. Reichards Analyzing Communities as Communities by Alexander C. Wagenaar Transforming Noise into Signals by Michael Hennessy Bibliography Index