Citation

Shope JT, Kloska DD, Dielman TE, Maharg R. J. Sch. Health 1994; 64(4): 160-166.

Affiliation

Transportation Research Institute, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-2150.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, American School Health Association, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8035577

Abstract

For students progressing from sixth to eighth grade, an enhanced Alcohol Misuse Prevention Study (AMPS) curriculum that emphasized social pressure resistance training, peer support, and norm-setting was developed, implemented, and evaluated. Schools were randomly assigned within communities to curriculum or control groups. Students were pretested early in sixth grade before the intervention and posttested at the end of sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Results indicated the curriculum was effective in increasing students' knowledge of curriculum material, and among the subgroup of students who had used alcohol unsupervised by adults before the pretest, in reducing the rate of increase of alcohol misuse. The findings result from a replication of the analytic approach used with the initial AMPS cohort data.

Language: en