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Pretest and Treatment Effects in an Elementary School-Based Alcohol Misuse Prevention Program

Pamela C. Campanelli, MA

Center for Survey Methods Research, U.S. Bureau of the Census

T.E. Dielman, PhD

Department of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Professions Education, The University of Michigan Medical School and in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, The University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Jean T. Shope, PhD

Department of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Professions Education, The University of Michigan Medical School and in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, The University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Amy T. Butchart, BA

Department of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Professions Education

Deborah S. Renner, MA

Michigan Health and Social Security Research Institute, Detroit, Michigan

Forty-nine schools (N = 5,680 fifth and sixth grade students) were assigned to pre test/treatment, pretest/no treatment, no pretest/treatment, and no pretest/no treat ment conditions in the context of an alcohol misuse prevention study. At the first posttest, five months after the pretest and two months after the intervention, the effects of the pretest and of the intervention were examined. The analyses showed that failure to correct for the design effect due to clustering within schools resulted in the overestimation of the significance of treatment and pretest effects. After correction for the design effect, a significant treatment effect in the hypothesized direction was found with respect to students' awareness of the content of the curriculum. As hypo thesized, significant treatment effects on the alcohol use and misuse measures had not yet developed but are expected to occur at subsequent posttest occasions. Significant pretest effects were found for indices measuring trouble with peers resulting from students' alcohol use, students' internal health locus of control, and their perceptions of adults as a locus of control for their health. Two of the three pretest effects were in the direction that would be hypothesized if the pretest were providing the same impe tus as the intervention. Implications of these findings for school-based substance abuse prevention programs are discussed.

Health Education & Behavior, Vol. 16, No. 1, 113-130 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/109019818901600112
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