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Evaluating a school-based alcohol program: the WARP experience

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posted on 2015-03-05, 00:00 authored by Fiona McKayFiona McKay, Matthew DunnMatthew Dunn
The Western Alcohol Reduction Program (WARP) is a community designed and lead, secondary school-based, program that seeks to address issues related to alcohol use by young people in the Melbourne western metropolitan region. Taking a whole-of community approach, the program consisted of six programs for a class of 20 students from schools in western Melbourne. The program sought to highlight negative influences of alcohol on life outcomes, and addresses the issues of alcohol-related behaviour in assaults, injuries and preventable consequences of risk-taking behaviour. The findings of this evaluation suggest that students have modified some of their drinking behaviours over the program, have modified some of their risky behaviours and have increased their knowledge in some areas. This program, designed specifically to meet the needs of the local school and students, has the potential to increase the alcohol- and drug-related knowledge of students, while also having a positive impact on alcohol-related behaviours.

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Journal

International journal of health promotion and education

Volume

53

Issue

4

Pagination

216 - 226

Publisher

Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Location

Oxford, Eng.

ISSN

1463-5240

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2015, Institute of Health Promotion and Education

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