EVALUATING A INTERVENTION TO REDUCE BARROOM AGGRESSION

评估减少酒吧攻击行为的干预措施

• 批准号: 6052357
• 负责人: Kathryn Marie Graham
• 金额: $ 39.53万
• 依托单位: CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-07-01 至 2003-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6052357
• 关键词: aggression; alcoholism /alcohol abuse; behavior modification; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; disease /disorder prevention /control; disease /disorder proneness /risk; employee; human subject; human therapy evaluation; occupational psychology; socioenvironment; training

The long-term goal of this project is to reduce aggression in bars. Alcohol is known to be associated with aggression, and bars in particular are drinking contexts where the risk of aggression and injury is high. Therefore, reducing aggression in bars is a serious social and health concern. Responsible Beverage Service training has demonstrated success in reducing overserving, but an intervention is needed that focuses specifically on preventing aggression. The proposed research involves a randomized control study of the effects of the Safer Bars intervention on reducing aggression. The intervention consists of two components: (1) Risk Assessment -a comprehensive assessment of environmental and other factors in the bar that increase the risk of aggression; and (2) Bar Staff Training -a training program for bar owners, managers and staff on preventing and managing problem behavior. A pool of 100 bars will be selected for the study (with 50 randomly assigned to the Safer Bars intervention). With an expected recruitment rate of 50 percent, the design will include 25 experimental bars, 25 "refusal" bars and 50 control bars. The effects of the intervention will be assessed through unobtrusive observations by researchers at baseline and two posttests., as well as by police records of calls for service, occurrence and arrests over the study period. The intervention is hypothesized to affect aggression as follows: (1) risk assessment consultation with owners and training of bar staff-(2) plans by owners to reduce risk factors and changes in knowledge and attitudes among staff following the training-(3) changes in the physical and social environment of the bar and changes in staff behavior in the bar-(4) reduced aggression. The study will involve both outcome(effects of the Safer Bars intervention on rate of physical aggression) and process (monitoring the delivery of the intervention, the extent that the risk assessment leads to plans to reduce risks, and pre-post training knowledge and attitude change) evaluation. If the Safer Bars intervention is demonstrated to be effective in reducing barroom aggression, the results could have a broad impact on bars in North America. Secondary Objective. Because evaluation of the intervention requires the collection of a large database on bar aggression and associated situational variables, secondary analyses of the data are planned to explore the role of the following in aggressive behavior: the effects of alcohol; females; bar staff; and routine activities.

这个项目的长期目标是减少酒吧里的攻击性。众所周知，酒精与攻击性有关，尤其是酒吧，是攻击性和伤害风险很高的饮酒场所。因此，减少酒吧里的暴力行为是一个严重的社会和健康问题。负责任的饮料服务培训已经证明在减少过度服务方面取得了成功，但需要特别关注防止攻击的干预。本研究采用随机对照研究，探讨安全栏干预对减少攻击行为的影响。干预包括两个部分：(1)风险评估——对酒吧中增加攻击风险的环境和其他因素进行综合评估；(2)酒吧员工培训——为酒吧老板、经理和员工提供预防和管理问题行为的培训项目。将选择100个酒吧进行研究（其中50个随机分配到安全酒吧干预组）。根据50%的预期招募率，设计将包括25个实验酒吧，25个“拒绝”酒吧和50个对照酒吧。干预的效果将通过研究人员在基线和两次后测时的不引人注目的观察来评估。，以及警方在研究期间的服务呼叫、发生和逮捕记录。假设干预对攻击行为的影响如下：(1)与酒吧老板进行风险评估咨询，并对酒吧员工进行培训；(2)酒吧老板制定计划，以减少风险因素和培训后员工的知识和态度变化；(3)酒吧物理和社会环境的变化以及酒吧员工行为的变化；(4)减少攻击行为。这项研究将包括结果（安全酒吧干预对身体攻击率的影响）和过程（监测干预的实施，风险评估导致降低风险计划的程度，以及培训前和培训后的知识和态度变化）评估。如果“更安全的酒吧”干预被证明在减少酒吧攻击方面是有效的，那么结果可能对北美的酒吧产生广泛的影响。次要目标。由于干预措施的评估需要收集关于酒吧攻击和相关情境变量的大型数据库，因此计划对数据进行二次分析，以探索以下因素在攻击行为中的作用：酒精的影响；女性;酒吧工作人员;还有日常活动。