Research into Multiple Risk Behaviours

This programme of research has examined multiple risk behaviours in young people, and the factors that influence them. It has aimed to develop interventions to reduce these risk behaviours and address their causes.

Previous research in this area has fallen under the following four themes:

Epidemiology of Multiple Risk Behaviours

Previous Research

Longitudinal patterns, predictors and outcomes of multiple cancer risk exposures (Caroline Wright)
An exploration of the relationship between multiple risk behaviour and health inequalities in young adulthood (Laura Tinner)
The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) and adolescent substance use trajectories: consolidation of a UK research resource (Hickman et al)

Multiple risk behaviour in adolescence and socio-economic status: findings from a UK birth cohort (Kipping)

Multiple risk behaviour in adolescence (Kipping et al)

Patterns of alcohol use and multiple risk behaviour by gender during early and late adolescence: the ALSPAC cohort (MacArthur et al)

The effect of multiple risk behaviours in adolescence on educational attainment at age 16: a UK birth cohort study (Wright et al)

The relative importance of perceived substance misuse use by different peers on smoking, alcohol and illicit drug use in adolescence (Er et al)

Systematic Reviews of interventions to prevent multiple risk behaviours

Previous Research

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)

Cochrane Review: Individual-, Family- and School-level Interventions for Preventing Multiple Risk Behaviours in Individuals Aged 8 to 25 years (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)

Prevalence and associated harm of engagement in self-Asphyxial behaviours ('choking game') in young people: A systematic review (Busse et al)

Interventions integrating health and academic interventions to prevent substance use and violence: a systematic review and synthesis of process evaluations (Campbell et al)

A systematic review and synthesis of theories of change of school-based interventions integrating health and academic education as a novel means of preventing violence and substance use among students (Campbell et al)

The effects of Positive Youth Development interventions on substance use, violence and inequalities: systematic review of theories of change, processes and outcomes.

Review of relevant theories of risk, risk behaviour and resilience in adolescence

Previous Research

Sociological theories of Multiple Risk Behaviours (Pound et al)

Young People - Risky sexual behaviour and alcohol use (Campbell et al)

Development and testing of complex interventions

Previous Research

PRoGRAM-A (PReventing Gambling RelAted Harm in Adolescents) (Campbell et al)

REACH: Developing a new school-based digital intervention to prevent harmful alcohol use among young people aged 13-14 (MacArthur)