Community Prevention Trials for Alcohol Problems

Methodological Issues
Herausgeber: Holder, Harold D.; Howard, Jan M.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The contributors to this volume demonstrate that it is now possible to undertake community prevention trials of alcohol-involved problems with the same precision, good design, and careful planning that has characterized similar prevention trials for heart disease and cancer prevention. This is the first book to establish a scientific basis for the integration of research into program design and in program evaluation, making it possible to determine if community programs are effective or worth the money spent for them. In part I, the contributors address issues of outcome measures, selection of relevant community interventions, utilization of appropriate research designs and analyses, and adjustment to social and political realities. Part II reviews definitions, perspectives, and issues that provide a conceptual base for the rest of the book. Also considered are the selection and measurement of alcohol problems that may be candidate outcome variables for a community intervention study. Part III summarizes the perspectives and prior experiences of community-based approaches in other health areas (including heart disease, cancer, and adolescent health) that may be applicable to the prevention of alcohol-related problems. Experiences and implications of alcohol-prevention projects in Ontario, Texas, and Rhode Island are discussed in part IV. Part V evaluates different experimental designs, methodologies, and relative risk regression models of community-based intervention programs in alcohol prevention. The two chapters in part VI discuss the dynamic social and political realities facing community prevention trials for alcohol problems and guidelines for undertaking such trials. This book will be useful for state and local prevention program planners and evaluators, researchers in alcohol and substance abuse, teachers of applied research methods or social program development and planning, and government policy makers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 674g
• ISBN-13: 9780275941963
• ISBN-10: 0275941965
• Artikelnr.: 25565161

Autorenporträt

HAROLD D. HOLDER is Director of the Prevention Research Center, one of 14 national alcohol research centers and the only one specializing in prevention. He is the editor of Control Issues in Alcohol Abuse Prevention: Strategies for States and Communities (1987). JAN M. HOWARD is Chief, Prevention Research Branch, Division of Clinical and Prevention Research, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. She is the co-editor of Humanizing Health Care (1975).

Inhaltsangabe

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