Effects of a Community-Level Intervention on Alcohol-Related Motor Vehicle Crashes in California Cities: A Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

This trial assesses the effects of a community-level alcohol prevention intervention in California on alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes.

Study design

The study is a group RCT with cities as the unit of assignment to condition and as the unit of analysis.

Setting/participants

A total of 24 California cities with populations between 50,000 and 450,000 were chosen at random and roughly matched into pairs before randomly assigning 12 each to the intervention and control conditions.

Intervention

The intervention, aimed at reducing excessive drinking among adolescents and young adults, included driving under the influence sobriety checkpoints, saturation patrols, and undercover operations to reduce service of alcohol to intoxicated patrons in bars, a

SUBMITTER: Saltz RF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8492018 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature