Cost-effectiveness of a combined classroom curriculum and parental intervention: economic evaluation of data from the Steps Towards Alcohol Misuse Prevention Programme cluster randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to assess the cost-effectiveness of the Steps Towards Alcohol Misuse Prevention Programme (STAMPP) compared with education as normal (EAN) in reducing self-reported heavy episodic drinking (HED) in adolescents.

Design

This is a cost-effectiveness analysis from a public sector perspective conducted as part of a cluster randomised trial.

Setting

This study was conducted in 105 high schools in Northern Ireland and in Scotland.

Participants

Students in school year 8/S1 (aged 11-12) at baseline were included in the study.

Interventions

This is a classroom-based alcohol education curricula, combined with a brief alcohol intervention for parents/carers.

Outcome measures

The outcome of this study is the cost per young person ex

SUBMITTER: Agus A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6609141 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature