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## Background In the Netherlands, children start to drink at an early age; of the Dutch 12-year olds, 40% reports lifetime alcohol use, while 9.7% reports last-month drinking. Starting to drink at an early age puts youth at risk of developing several alcohol-related problems later in life. Recently, a home-based prevention program called "In control: No alcohol!" was developed to delay the age of alcohol onset in children. The main aim of this project is to conduct a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of the program. ## Methods/Design The prevention program will be tested with an RCT among mothers and their 6 grade primary school children (11-12 years old), randomly assigned to the prevention or control condition. The program consists of five printed magazines and an activity book designed to improve parental alcohol-specific socialization. Parent-child dyads in the control group receive a factsheet information brochure, which is the standard alcohol brochure of the Trimbos Institute (the Netherlands Institute for Mental Health and Addiction). Outcome measures are initiation of alcohol use (have been drinking at least one glass of alcohol), alcohol-spec
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- Author
- Suzanne HW Mares; Haske van der Vorst; Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff; Ingrid Schulten; Jacqueline EE Verdurmen; Roy Otten; Rutger CME Engels
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2001-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1471-2458)
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)