Effective interventions targeting young people.
Since the 1960s, the overall trend in alcohol consumption levels, as estimated from sales data, has been downward (OFDT). While consumption data from the INPES Health Barometer confirm this trend over the past few years, certain drinking behaviors among young people—such as heavy episodic drinking (defined as 6 or more drinks on a single occasion) or getting drunk—are on the rise within certain groups. The issue of youth drinking has thus been a central concern for prevention stakeholders for several years. To address this issue and propose courses of action, in 2012, INPES compiled a synthesis of ten literature reviews produced by recognized organizations (Cochrane, NICE) or published in journals with an impact factor greater than 3—published between 2007 and 2012. The interventions presented as effective, according to the authors of these reviews, were classified according to four criteria: the age of the beneficiaries, the type of prevention (universal or targeted), whether the intervention is validated or promising, and the level of the intervention—that is, a distinction is made between actions that directly target individuals and those that address their environment, thereby influencing the availability of alcohol. This review identified twenty-seven prevention interventions that could have an impact on youth alcohol consumption, seventeen of which are considered validated [39]. An intervention is considered “validated/promising” when its effectiveness is recognized or anticipated by at least one of the documents. The purpose of this article is to present these results in summary form. [excerpt from the article]
Author(s): COGORDAN Chloé, Richard Jean-Baptiste, NGUYEN-THANH Viêt
Publishing year: 2015
Pages: 37-42
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