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Neighborhood Alcohol Prevention Project
Principal
Investigator: Paul J. Gruenewald, Ph.D.
Project Director:
Andrew J. Treno, Ph.D.
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The
Sacramento Neighborhood Alcohol Prevention Project (SNAPP)
will implement a series of preventive interventions to reduce
drinking and alcohol-related problems among young people in
two largely Mexican American and other minority neighborhoods
of Sacramento, California. The interventions are designed
to alter underage and young adult drinking practices unique
to Mexican American and other minority youth; presenting a
focus upon social as well as physical access to alcohol. The
environmental interventions proposed for this five-year project
include a Community Awareness component, a Responsible Beverage
Service component, an Underage Access component, an Enforcement
component, and a Community Mobilization component. These interventions
will be phased into the two neighborhoods at different times
allowing a comparison of intervention effectiveness.
Data
collection will take place throughout the five years of the
project within both neighborhoods and in the remaining areas
of Sacramento. Replicated cross-sectional telephone surveys,
underage purchase surveys, measures of responsible beverage
service, and archival data will be used to assess program
efficacy. The project will use a quasi-experimental design
to assess the efficacy of the intervention with phased interventions
to allow comparison of changes in outcomes in the southern
and northern neighborhoods while using the rest of the city
as a control.
As
an important aspect of project design, SNAPP will collect
scientific data from each neighborhood, and feed this information
back to significant neighborhood actors and the neighborhood
at large (Community Awareness component). Areas of scientific
inquiry include (1) patterns of alcohol use and alcohol-related
problems among Mexican American and other minority youth and
(2) the relationships between alcohol availability, outlet
density, alcohol use, and alcohol-related problems within
the SNAPP intervention neighborhoods. Results of the SNAPP
intervention evaluation and scientific program will establish
scientific bases upon which to develop future neighborhood-based
preventive interventions among Mexican American and other
minority populations in the U.S.
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