Titre : | Social norms information for alcohol misuse in university and college students [Intervention review] (2015) |
Auteurs : | D. R. FOXCROFT ; M. T. MOREIRA ; N. M. L. ALMEIDA SANTIMANO ; L. A. SMITH |
Type de document : | Article : Périodique |
Dans : | Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (n°1, 2015) |
Article en page(s) : | CD006748 ; 145 p. |
Note générale : |
Update of:
Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2009;(3):CD006748 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | PRE (Prévention - RdRD / Prevention - Harm reduction) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés MILIEU ETUDIANT ; JEUNE ; ALCOOL ; NORME ; INTERVENTION ; PREVENTION ; EVALUATION |
Résumé : |
BACKGROUND: Drinking is influenced by youth (mis)perceptions of how their peers drink. If misperceptions can be corrected, young people may drink less.
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether social norms interventions reduce alcohol-related negative consequences, alcohol misuse or alcohol consumption when compared with a control (ranging from assessment only/no intervention to other educational or psychosocial interventions) among university and college students. SEARCH METHODS: The following electronic databases were searched up to May 2014: the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) (only to March 2008). Reference lists of included studies and review articles were manually searched. SELECTION CRITERIA: Randomised controlled trials or cluster-randomised controlled trials that compared a social normative intervention versus no intervention, alcohol education leaflet or other 'non-normative feedback' alcohol intervention and reported on alcohol consumption or alcohol-related problems in university or college students. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: We used standard methodological procedures as expected by The Cochrane Collaboration. Each outcome was analysed by mode of delivery: mailed normative feedback (MF); Web/computer normative feedback (WF); individual face-to-face normative feedback (IFF); group face-to-face normative feedback (GFF); and normative marketing campaign (MC). MAIN RESULTS: A total of 66 studies (43,125 participants) were included in the review, and 59 studies (40,951 participants) in the meta-analyses. Outcomes at 4+ months post intervention were of particular interest to assess when effects were sustained beyond the immediate short term. We have reported pooled effects across delivery modes only for those analyses for which heterogeneity across delivery modes is not substantial (I(2) AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: The results of this review indicate that no substantive meaningful benefits are associated with social norms interventions for prevention of alcohol misuse among college/university students. Although some significant effects were found, we interpret the effect sizes as too small, given the measurement scales used in the studies included in this review, to be of relevance for policy or practice. Moreover, the statistically significant effects are not consistent for all misuse measures, heterogeneity was a problem in some analyses and bias cannot be discounted as a potential cause of these findings. |
Domaine : | Alcool / Alcohol |
Sous-type de document : | Revue de la littérature / Literature review |
Affiliation : | Department of Psychology, Social Work and Public Health, Oxford Brookes University, Marston, Oxford, England, UK |
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