NCT03906500

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

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 3,682 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Southern Denmark · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed description

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: based on sample size calculations 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.

Conditions

• Alcohol Drinking

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	High schools High on Life	The intervention consist of three main components. Environmental factors of the school environment 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 component The Student components consisted of three main elements: * Online education for the student committees organizing events where alcohol is sold and the student introduction committee * Pocket movie campaign competition * Social norms campaign Parent component The parent component consisted of three separate elements: * Parent Information Meeting * Parent Information Folder * Parent Information Website

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-04-01
• Primary completion: 2021-08-30
• Completion: 2021-08-30
• First posted: 2019-04-08
• Last updated: 2021-10-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark