TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1991//
TI  - A cross-cultural pilot study on alcohol education and young people
JO  - World health statistics quarterly
A1  - Perry, Cheryl L.
A1  - Grant, M.
SP  - 70
EP  - 73
VL  - 44
IS  - 2
N2  - Alcohol use has become normative for adolescents in most developed and developing countries, with serious health implications. In response to this problem, the World Health Organization convened a group of investigators in 1985 from centres in four countries--Australia, Chile, Norway and Swaziland--to participate in a pilot study on the efficacy of the social influences approach in school-based alcohol education. The goal of the educational programme was to delay onset and minimize involvement of alcohol use among 13-14 year-old adolescents. 25 schools in the 4 countries, representing middle- and lower-class populations, were randomly assigned to peer-led education, teacher-led education or a control condition. The programme focused on the social and environmental influences to drink alcohol, and skills to resist those influences. It consisted of 5 lessons over 2 months. Baseline and post-test data measured alcohol-use knowledge, attitudes, skills and friends' drinking patterns. Data were collected immediately prior to and 2 months following the educational programme. The data converge on the finding that peer-led education appears to be efficacious in reducing alcohol use across a variety of settings and cultures.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0379-8070
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -