A Randomized Trial to Evaluate Project ARM

评估 ARM 项目的随机试验

• 批准号: 6769625
• 负责人: TRACI L TOOMEY
• 金额: $ 58.01万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-20 至 2006-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6769625
• 关键词: alcoholism /alcohol abuse; alcoholism /alcohol abuse prevention; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical trials; human subject; human therapy evaluation; legal /correctional; patient oriented research; substance abuse related behavior

This study will evaluate effects of the Alcohol Risk Management (ARM) program, a well-developed, four-session training program for owners and managers of on-sale alcohol outlets (i.e., bars, restaurants). This on-one-one training program is designed to provide managers with the knowledge and skills necessary to develop responsible, outlet-specific alcohol service and promotional policies. By influencing establishment policy, the ARM program attempts to reduce illegal alcohol sales to obviously intoxicated patrons and decrease alcohol promotions that lead to heavy consumption of alcohol, which are related to public health problems such as violence and traffic crashes. The study proposes to conduct a full, randomized trial to evaluate effects of the ARM program on: (1) propensity of outlets to sell alcohol to obviously intoxicated patrons, (2) implementation of internal outlet policies (as measured through a telephone survey of owners and managers), and (3) rates of alcohol-related problems (as measured through police call data). Two hundred on-sale establishments (i.e., bars, restaurants) will be randomly assigned to intervention or control conditions (i.e., 100 per condition). Actors displaying obvious signs of intoxication will attempt to purchase alcohol in intervention and control outlets at baseline and three and six months after implementation of the ARM program. Control outlets will receive a one-session, less-intensive version of the ARM program (ARM Express) after the six-month follow-up of pseudo-intoxicated purchase attempts. Two secondary goals of the study are to assess the promise of ARM Express for influencing establishment policies and decreasing alcohol-related problems and to evaluate differences between participating and non-participating outlets.

本研究将评估酒精风险管理 (ARM) 计划的效果，该计划是一项针对酒类销售商店（即酒吧、餐馆）所有者和经理的完善的四期培训计划。这一一对一的培训计划旨在为管理人员提供制定负责任的、针对特定商店的酒类服务和促销政策所需的知识和技能。通过影响机构政策，ARM 计划试图减少向明显醉酒顾客的非法酒类销售，并减少导致大量饮酒的酒类促销活动，而这与暴力和交通事故等公共卫生问题有关。该研究建议进行一项全面的随机试验，以评估 ARM 计划对以下方面的影响：(1) 商店向明显喝醉的顾客出售酒精的倾向，(2) 内部商店政策的实施（通过对店主的电话调查来衡量）和管理人员），以及（3）酒精相关问题的发生率（通过报警数据衡量）。 200 个销售场所（即酒吧、餐馆）将被随机分配到干预或控制条件（即每个条件 100 个）。表现出明显醉酒迹象的行为者将在基线以及 ARM 计划实施后三个月和六个月内尝试在干预和控制商店购买酒精。在对假醉购买尝试进行为期六个月的跟踪后，控制网点将收到 ARM 程序 (ARM Express) 的单次低强度版本。该研究的两个次要目标是评估 ARM Express 在影响机构政策和减少酒精相关问题方面的前景，并评估参与和不参与的商店之间的差异。