@article{ref1,
title="Communities mobilizing for change on alcohol: outcomes from a randomized community trial",
journal="Journal of studies on alcohol",
year="2000",
author="Wagenaar, Alexander C. and Murray, D. M. and Gehan, J. P. and Wolfson, Mark and Forster, J. L. and Toomey, Traci L. and Perry, Cheryl L. and Jones-Webb, Rhonda J.",
volume="61",
number="1",
pages="85-94",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol (CMCA) was a randomized 15-community trial of a community organizing intervention designed to reduce the accessibility of alcoholic beverages to youths under the legal drinking age. METHOD: Data were collected at baseline before random assignment of communities to intervention or control condition, and again at follow-up after a 2.5-year intervention. Data collection included in-school surveys of twelfth graders, telephone surveys of 18- to 20-year-olds and alcohol merchants, and direct testing of the propensity of alcohol outlets to sell to young buyers. Analyses were based on mixed-model regression, used the community as the unit of assignment, took into account the nesting of individual respondents or alcohol outlets within each community, and controlled for relevant covariates. RESULTS: Results show that the CMCA intervention significantly and favorably affected both the behavior of 18- to 20-year-olds (effect size = 0.76, p<.01) and the practices of on-sale alcohol establishments (effect size = 1.18, p<.05), may have favorably affected the practices of off-sale alcohol establishments (effect size = 0.32, p = .08), but had little effect on younger adolescents. Alcohol merchants appear to have increased age-identification checking and reduced propensity to sell to minors. Eighteen- to 20-year-olds reduced their propensity to provide alcohol to other teens and were less likely to try to buy alcohol, drink in a bar or consume alcohol. CONCLUSIONS: Community organizing is a useful intervention approach for mobilizing communities for institutional and policy change to improve the health of the population.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0096-882X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}