Research into Alcohol

Current research: 

• Improving clinical coding for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)

Previous research: 

• Mapping the landscape of prenatal alcohol prevention in the UK: a collaborative review - NIHR SPHR

• Generation of a novel school-based digital intervention to prevent harmful alcohol use among young people aged 13-14 years - NIHR SPHR
  
  
• Methodological research to improve the analysis of natural experiments in public health: feasibility study and proof-of-principle with a special focus on alcohol licensing - NIHR SPHR
  
  
• Excessive drinking and alcohol related harms in Adulthood: ALSPAC at 24 (PI: Matthew Hickman)
  
  
• VIDA Study (MacArthur et al)
  
  
• The impact of peers in relation to alcohol use in adolescence: investigating social influences to inform a peer-led school-based intervention
  
  
• Peer-led interventions to prevent tobacco, alcohol and/or drug use among young people aged 11-21 years: a systematic review and meta-analysis (MacArthur et al)
  
  
• Individual-, family-, and school-level interventions for preventing multiple risk behaviours relating to alcohol, tobacco and drug use in individuals aged 8 to 25 years (Hickman et al)

Alcohol was an NIHR SPHR research programme during the first quinquennium of the School (2012-2017), and researchers within the Centre for Public Health led, or were involved in the following research: 

• Alcohol screening and brief intervention in the police custody setting. Pilot randomised controlled trial of alcohol screening and brief interventions in the police custody suite setting

• The Alcohol Toolkit Study: tracking key performance indicators of alcohol consumption in England

• Changing environmental cues to alcohol consumption

• Comparing digital and practitioner delivered interventions for alcohol

• Complex systems approach to evaluation: alcohol case study

• Developing a new school-based digital intervention to prevent harmful alcohol use among young people aged 13-14 years

• DrinkThink: Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Young People in Youth, Social Service, and Healthcare Settings: A Mixed-Method Evaluation and Intervention Development Study

• Improving the evaluation of public health interventions: a focus on alcohol licensing

• New technologies for reducing excessive alcohol use. Cochrane systematic literature review of brief technological interventions to reduce hazardous and harmful drinking

• Optimising the alcohol reduction smartphone app: Drink Less

• Risky Sexual Behaviour and Alcohol Misuse in Young People

• Safeguarding children affected by parental substance misuse