A Randomized Trial to Evaluate Project ARM

评估 ARM 项目的随机试验

• 批准号: 6629708
• 负责人: TRACI L TOOMEY
• 金额: $ 61.33万
• 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 2005-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6629708
• 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.

这项研究将评估酒精风险管理（ARM）计划的影响，该计划是针对销售饮酒渠道的所有者和经理（即酒吧，餐馆）的良好开发的四节培训计划。这项一对一的培训计划旨在为经理提供制定负责任的，特定于出口的酒精服务和促销政策所需的知识和技能。通过影响机构政策，ARM计划试图将非法酒精销售减少到明显的醉酒顾客，并减少酒精促销，从而导致大量饮酒，这与暴力和交通崩溃等公共卫生问题有关。该研究建议进行一项完整的随机试验，以评估ARM计划对以下方面的影响：（1）出售酒精向明显醉酒的顾客出售酒精的倾向，（2）实施内部出口策略（通过对所有者和管理者的电话调查来衡量），以及（3）与酒精相关问题的速度（如通过警察呼叫数据测量）。两百个销售机构（即酒吧，餐馆）将随机分配给干预或控制条件（即每条条件100）。表现出明显的中毒迹象的演员将尝试在基线时在干预和控制渠道中购买酒精，以及实施ARM计划后的三个月和六个月。在伪造的购买尝试进行了为期六个月的随访之后，Control Outlet将获得一项，较少的ARM计划（ARM Express）的单一版本。该研究的两个次要目标是评估ARM Express对影响建立政策并减少与酒精有关的问题的承诺，并评估参与和非参与媒体之间的差异。