All-Wales licensed premises intervention (AWLPI): a randomised controlled trial to reduce alcohol-related violence

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Moore, SC; O'Brien, C; Alam, MF; Cohen, D; Hood, K; Huang, C; Moore, L; Murphy, S; Playle, R; Sivarajasingam, V; ...Date
2014-01-10Source Title
BMC Public HealthPublisher
BMCUniversity of Melbourne Author/s
Moore, LaurenceAffiliation
Melbourne School of Population and Global HealthMetadata
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Moore, S. C., O'Brien, C., Alam, M. F., Cohen, D., Hood, K., Huang, C., Moore, L., Murphy, S., Playle, R., Sivarajasingam, V., Spasic, I., Williams, A. & Shepherd, J. (2014). All-Wales licensed premises intervention (AWLPI): a randomised controlled trial to reduce alcohol-related violence. BMC PUBLIC HEALTH, 14 (1), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-21.Access Status
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BACKGROUND: Alcohol-related violence in and in the vicinity of licensed premises continues to place a considerable burden on the United Kingdom's (UK) health services. Robust interventions targeted at licensed premises are therefore required to reduce the costs of alcohol-related harm. Previous evaluations of interventions in licensed premises have a number of methodological limitations and none have been conducted in the UK. The aim of the trial was to determine the effectiveness of the Safety Management in Licensed Environments intervention designed to reduce alcohol-related violence in licensed premises, delivered by Environmental Health Officers, under their statutory authority to intervene in cases of violence in the workplace. METHODS/DESIGN: A national randomised controlled trial, with licensed premises as the unit of allocation. Premises were identified from all 22 Local Authorities in Wales. Eligible premises were those with identifiable violent incidents on premises, using police recorded violence data. Premises were allocated to intervention or control by optimally balancing by Environmental Health Officer capacity in each Local Authority, number of violent incidents in the 12 months leading up to the start of the project and opening hours. The primary outcome measure is the difference in frequency of violence between intervention and control premises over a 12 month follow-up period, based on a recurrent event model. The trial incorporates an embedded process evaluation to assess intervention implementation, fidelity, reach and reception, and to interpret outcome effects, as well as investigate its economic impact. DISCUSSION: The results of the trial will be applicable to all statutory authorities directly involved with managing violence in the night time economy and will provide the first formal test of Health and Safety policy in this environment. If successful, opportunities for replication and generalisation will be considered. TRIAL REGISTRATION: UKCRN 14077; ISRCTN78924818.
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