The effect of alcohol advertising and marketing on drinking behaviour in...
Introduction Drinking behaviour and associated harm increasingly is a cause for concern, particularly amongst young people. Many factors may contribute to a young person’s decision to drink, including...
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Adaptation and Testing of the Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 (SFP10-14) for use in the United Kingdom In 2006 Coombes et al produced a report Implementation of the Strengthening Families...
View ArticleThe Representation and Reception of Meaning in Alcohol Advertising and Young...
Introduction There has been growing concern about alcohol consumption among young people in the United Kingdom and other countries. This concern has been reinforced by large-scale surveys of national...
View ArticleNot In Front Of The Children – Child Protection And Advertising
Introduction In order to gauge to what extent children are being exposed to alcohol advertising, Alcohol Concern decided to investigate the scheduling of alcohol adverts, and in particular to see the...
View ArticleResearching the effects of Digital Storytelling as a brief alcohol...
Introduction This study documents important findings from an innovative alcohol intervention that was piloted in Caerphilly, South Wales. The intervention is innovative in terms of its use of media...
View ArticleScript representation of alcohol-related aggression in underage drinkers
Introduction It is well known that alcohol consumption is a risk factor for violence, and that young people are at risk of both perpetration and victimisation after drinking alcohol. To some extent...
View ArticleThe Cost of Alcohol: The Advocacy for a Minimum Price per Unit in the UK
Background UK drinkers regularly consume alcohol in excess of guideline limits; alcohol consumption and binge drinking are also known to have increased in recent years. One reason for this is the...
View ArticleInvestigating the Effectiveness of Education in Relation to Alcohol:
A Systematic Investigation of Critical Elements for Optimum Effectiveness of Promising Approaches and Delivery Methods in School and Family Linked Alcohol Education. Background This review examined...
View ArticleGender, alcohol and interventions
This Alcohol Insight summarises the end-of-award report for a study funded by Comic Relief and Alcohol Research UK. There is widespread concern about health and social consequences of excessive...
View ArticleInternet influences on adolescent attitudes to alcohol
Aims Adolescent exposure to alcohol media content has been found to be associated with future drinking practices (Smith and Foxcroft, 2009; Anderson et al., 2009) as well as influencing immediate...
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