TY  - JOUR
AU  - Segrott, J
AU  - Gillespie, D
AU  - Holliday, J
AU  - Humphreys, I
AU  - Murphy, S
AU  - Phillips, C
AU  - Reed, H
AU  - Rothwell, H
AU  - Foxcroft, D
AU  - Hood, K
AU  - Roberts, Z
AU  - Scourfield, J
AU  - Thomas, C
AU  - Moore, L
Y2  - 2020/12/22
Y1  - 2014/01/17
SN  - 1471-2458
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/11343/258206
AB  - BACKGROUND: Prevention of alcohol, drug and tobacco misuse by young people is a key public health priority. There is a need to develop the evidence base through rigorous evaluations of innovative approaches to substance misuse prevention. The Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 is a universal family-based alcohol, drugs and tobacco prevention programme, which has achieved promising results in US trials, and which now requires cross-cultural assessment. This paper therefore describes the protocol for a randomised controlled trial of the UK version of the Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 (SFP 10-14 UK). METHODS/DESIGN: The trial comprises a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled effectiveness trial with families as the unit of randomisation, with embedded process and economic evaluations. Participating families will be randomised to one of two treatment groups - usual care with full access to existing services (control group), or usual care plus SFP 10-14 UK (intervention group). The trial has two primary outcomes - the number of occasions that young people report having drunk alcohol in the last 30 days, and drunkenness during the last 30 days, both dichotomised as 'never' and '1-2 times or more'. The main follow-up is at 2 years past baseline, and short-term and intermediate outcomes are also measured at 9 and 15 months. DISCUSSION: The results from this trial will provide evidence on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an innovative universal family-based substance misuse prevention programme in a UK context. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN63550893.
LA  - English
PB  - BMC
T1  - Preventing substance misuse: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of the Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 UK (SFP 10-14 UK)
DO  - 10.1186/1471-2458-14-49
IS  - BMC Public Health
VL  - 14
IS  - 1
L1  - /bitstream/handle/11343/258206/PMC3902023.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
ER  -