- Title
- Alcohol_focused drowning prevention campaigns : what do we know and what should we do now?
- Creator
- Calverley, Hannah; Petrass, Lauren; Blitvich, Jennifer
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/174282
- Identifier
- vital:14805
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.25035/IJARE.12.02.07
- Identifier
- ISBN:1932-9997 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Alcohol and drugs have been identified as key risk factors for youth (aged 15-24 years) and adult drownings in high-income countries (HIC). Whilst alcohol specific drowning prevention education programs have been developed and implemented, youth continue to be over-represented in drowning statistics, including those linked with alcohol. Therefore, this project aimed to: (i) review and assess all alcohol themed drowning prevention campaigns within HICs; (ii) determine whether the campaign had undergone evaluation for effectiveness; and (iii) provide recommendations to improve the effectiveness of future interventions. For each of the eighty-one HICs identified for the 2019 fiscal year, searches of peer-reviewed literature (through academic databases) and grey literature (through webpages and emails to organisations) were conducted. Twelve alcohol focused campaigns were identified, with only two providing limited information about program evaluation. For most campaigns identified, there was a dearth of information available and therefore assessment of campaign quality was unfeasible. This brief report highlights a lack of alcohol themed drowning prevention campaigns in HIC, and an absence of evaluations on their effectiveness. Implications associated with a lack of program evaluation are discussed and adoption of the recommendations from this brief report should enhance the quality of future research in this area. © 2020 Human Kinetics Publishers Inc.. All rights reserved.
- Publisher
- Human Kinetics Publishers Inc.
- Relation
- International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education Vol. 12, no. 2 (2020), p.
- Rights
- Metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- Copyright Human Kinetics
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 1117 Public Health and Health Services; 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy; Alcohol; Campaigns; Drowning prevention; Program evaluation
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