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Title
Reducing alcohol-related harm and social disorder in a university community: a framework for evaluation
Author/Creator
Cousins, Kimberley;  Connor, Jennie L.;  Kypri, Kypros
Institution
The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Health, School of Medicine and Public Health
Description
Background: In New Zealand and other middle to high income countries, university student are at high risk of alcohol-related injury and other problems due to their typical pattern of episodic heavy drinking. In 2007, one university implemented Campus Watch, a novel and extensive programme to reduce social disorder, including alcohol-related injury, in the university area. Objectives: To quantify the effects of this complex intervention. Setting: A large public university campus and surrounding community in New Zealand. Design: A health promotion evaluation model was used, examining: (1) how the programme was developed, introduced and received by the community? (process); (2) whether the programme affected behaviour? (impact); and (3) whether the programme reduced social disorder and alcohol-related harm in particular? (outcome). The outcome phase uses a non-equivalent control group design to measure changes occurring in the Campus Watch area compared with other universities, and with a same-city control site. Participants: Programme staff, university students and other community members. Data: Interviews with university administrators and Campus Watch staff; surveys of local residents' views; Campus Watch incident data; national surveys of university students in 2005, 2007 and 2009; police data; fire department data. Outcome Measures: Prevalence of heavy episodic drinking; number of acute alcohol-related harms; incidence of antisocial behaviour, assault and street fires. Analysis: Regression analyses will be used to examine changes in the intervention site relative to changes in the control areas.
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Injury Prevention Vol. 16, Issue 5, p. e1-e6
Publisher Link
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ip.2010.027961
Date
2010
Publisher
BMJ Group
Keyword(s)
alcohol-related harm;  social disorder;  university students;  Campus Watch
Resource Type
journal article
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/921493
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ISSN:1353-8047
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"Injury Prevention"
 
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