Research Catalog

Title

Community prevention trials for alcohol problems : methodological issues / edited by Harold D. Holder and Jan M. Howard ; foreword by Enoch Gordis.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Holder, Harold D.
• Howard, Jan M. (Jan McDonald)

Description

xviii, 317 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

• Alcoholism > Prevention > Research > Methodology. > United States
• Community health services > Research > Methodology. > United States
• Preventive health services > Research > Methodology. > United States
• Alcoholism > prevention & control
• Community Health Services
• Preventive Health Services
• Research Design
• Community health services > Research > Methodology
• Alkoholismus
• Prävention
• Forschung
• United States
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-306) and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Enoch Gordis -- 1. Emergent Agendas for Alcohol Prevention Research / Jan M. Howard -- 2. What Is a Community and What Are Implications for Prevention Trials for Reducing Alcohol Problems? / Harold D. Holder -- 3. Candidate Alcohol Problems and Implications for Measurement: General Alcohol Problems, Outcome Measures, Instrumentation, and Surrogates / Robert F. Saltz, Paul J. Gruenewald and Michael Hennessy -- 4. Phases for Developing Community Trials: Lessons for Control of Alcohol Problems from Research in Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, and Adolescent Health / John W. Farquhar and Stephen P. Fortmann -- 5. Designs Employed in Community Heart Disease and Cancer Prevention Projects / Thomas M. Lasater -- 6. Focusing on the Drinking Environment or the High-Risk Drinker in Prevention Projects: Limitations and Opportunities / Norman Giesbrecht and Ann Pederson -- 7. Integrating Alcohol Abuse Prevention into Community Programs for Other Health Problems: Issues and Experiences / Alfred McAlister and Elizabeth Edmundson -- 8. Prevention Experiments in the Context of Ongoing Community Processes: Opportunities or Obstacles for Research / Robert L. Stout -- 9. Estimating the Effects of Community Prevention Trials: Alternative Designs and Methods / Charles S. Reichardt -- 10. Case-Control Studies: Can They Evaluate Preventive Measures for Reducing Alcohol Problems? / Cornelia J. Baines
• 11. Some Alternative Models Based on Relative Risk Regression for the Analysis of Community-Based Intervention Studies / Steven G. Self -- 12. Community Prevention Programs as Natural Experiments / H. Laurence Ross -- 13. Protecting the Scientific Integrity of Community Intervention Studies: Confronting Social Realities / Jan M. Howard and Ivan Barofsky -- 14. Undertaking a Community Prevention Trial to Reduce Alcohol Problems: Translating Theoretical Models into Action / Harold D. Holder -- Promoting Comprehensive Interventions / Lawrence W. Green -- Confronting Drinking Cultures / Ernestine Vanderveen -- Targeting Consumption as an Endpoint / Thomas C. Harford -- Focusing on Community Structure and Process / Marjorie A. Gutman -- Clarifying Concepts and Terminology / David P. Byar -- Replicating Community Studies / Laurence S. Freedman -- Learning from Experience / Charles S. Reichardt -- Analyzing Communities as Communities / Alexander C. Wagenaar -- Transforming Noise into Signals / Michael Hennessy.

ISBN

• 0275941965
• 9780275941963

LCCN

92009804

OCLC

• ocm25551578
• 25551578
• SCSB-1970946

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library