High Schools- High on Life: an Intervention to Reduce Excessive Drinking in Danish High Schools

University of Southern Denmark (SDU)

Status

Terminated

Conditions

Alcohol Drinking

Treatments

Behavioral: High schools High on Life

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03906500

15/4155_2

Details and patient eligibility

About

High schools High on life' intervention is a high school-based, multi-component intervention guided by theory, evidence, and empirical findings to reduce excessive drinking among Danish high school students. The study will employ a cluster-randomized controlled study design: investigators plan to include a random sample of at least 12 high schools randomly 1:1 allocated to either intervention or control group. Timeline: Baseline data will be obtained from the Danish National Youth Study 2019, collected in January to March 2019. Delivery of intervention: August 2019 to January 2020. Follow-up survey: April to May 2020. Primary outcome measure: mean number of binge-drinking episodes within the last 30 days. Secondary outcome measures: weekly alcohol consumption, alcohol intake at last school party, alcohol intake at the school during last school party, number of students that agrees that they are able to have fun at a party without drinking, and the proportion of students that think alcohol plays a too dominant part at the school. Implementation will be monitored thorough process evaluation.

Full description

Timeline: Baseline data will be obtained from the Danish National Youth Study 2019, collected in January to March 2019. Delivery of intervention: August 2019 to January 2020. Follow-up survey: April to May 2020. Primary outcome measure: mean number of binge-drinking episodes within the last 30 days. Secondary outcome measures: weekly alcohol consumption, alcohol intake at last school party, alcohol intake at the school during last school party, number of students that agrees that they are able to have fun at a party without drinking, and the proportion of students that think alcohol plays a too dominant part at the school. Implementation will be monitored thorough process evaluation.

Enrollment

3,682 patients

Sex

All

Ages

15 to 25 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Enrolled in High school that participate in The Danish National Youth Study 2019
General High Schools

Exclusion criteria

non General High schools students
non participation in The Danish National Youth Study 2019

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

3,682 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention consist of three main components. School environmental component The component targeting the high school environment consisted of two separate elements: * Revision of school alcohol policy * Appointment of coordinator(s) of student committees organizing events, where alcohol is sold, and student introduction committee. Student components The Student components consisted of three main elements: * Web-based education for the student committees organizing events where alcohol is sold and the student introduction committee * Pocket movie campaign * Social norms campaign Parent components The parent component consisted of three separate elements: * Parent Information Meeting * Parent Information Folder * Parent Information Website

Treatment:

Behavioral: High schools High on Life

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Control high schools was asked to continue business as usual and promised to receive the intervention in the school year starting in 2020

Trial documents