A feasibility study of a licensed premise intervention to reduce alcohol misuse and violent injury

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A feasibility study of a licensed premise intervention to reduce alcohol misuse and violent injuryWe aim to better understand how interventions designed to curb alcohol misuse and violence in licensed premises can be implemented, how to measure the effects of interventions and what, if any, barriers there are to implementation.Alcohol misuse damages health and busy licensed premises are prone to disorder and violence. Alcohol places an unnecessary and preventable burden on health services. Researchers only partially understand how interventions reduce the risk of alcohol misuse and violence. The lack of reliable ways of measuring harm and the lack of watertight research methods mean that there are many uncertainties. This project addresses these problems by rigorously assessing how changes within licensed premises might impact on injury and illness. First, reliable measures of alcohol misuse and violence will be developed and, second, the effects of implementing changes will be measured. Measures which will be assessed include precisely targeted breath analysis and police and accident and emergency data. If reliable measures and evidence that the intervention works emerge then a large scale experiment will be the subject of a further application.