Coalitional Capacities and Environmental Strategies to Prevent Underage Drinking.

Coalitions are the most common platform for implementing community-level environmental strategies (ES), such as media, policy, or enforcement for substance use prevention. The current study examines the associations between two types of coalition capacity (general and innovation-specific) and ES imp...

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Publicado en:American Journal of Community Psychology Vol. 51; no. 1/2; pp. 222 - 232
Autores principales: Nargiso, Jessica E., Friend, Karen B., Egan, Crystelle, Florin, Paul, Stevenson, John, Amodei, Brenda, Barovier, Linda
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2013
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          Nargiso, Jessica E.
          Friend, Karen B.
          Egan, Crystelle
          Florin, Paul
          Stevenson, John
          Amodei, Brenda
          Barovier, Linda
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          Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 02912, Providence RI, USA
          Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Decision Sciences Institute, 1005 Main St, Suite 8120, 02860, Pawtucket RI, USA
          San Francisco VA Medical Center, University of California, 94121, San Francisco CA, USA
          Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island, 02881, Kingston RI, USA
          Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals, State of Rhode Island, 02920, Cranston RI, USA
          Education Development Center, Inc., 43 Foundry Avenue, 02453, Waltham MA, USA
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        Population assistance
        Community-based programs
        Substance abuse prevention
        Coalitions
        Mass media
        Government policy
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          Population assistance
          Community-based programs
          Substance abuse prevention
          Coalitions
          Mass media
          Government policy
          Technical assistance
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        Capacity
        Measurement
        Prevention
        Training and technical assistance
        Capacity
        Measurement
        Prevention
        Training and technical assistance
      ab: Coalitions are the most common platform for implementing community-level environmental strategies (ES), such as media, policy, or enforcement for substance use prevention. The current study examines the associations between two types of coalition capacity (general and innovation-specific) and ES implementation efforts and outputs within 14 intervention communities over a three-year period. Efforts refer to the amount of energy exerted to implement an ES while outputs refer to the materials produced through these efforts. Quantitative measures of capacity were provided by coalition key informants and expert-raters. Additionally, Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) provided proactively to improve the implementation of ES was also examined. Greater general capacity, as rated by a coalition informant, was associated with more ES policy effort. Both expert-rated general and innovation-specific capacity, however, were associated with greater ES outputs. Study results also found that community coalitions that endorsed weaker mobilization, structure and task leadership, (measures of general capacity), utilized more TTA compared to those who perceived their coalition as having greater capacity. Moreover, communities that utilized more TTA resources reported a greater number of successful policy changes. The study supports the need to consider both general and innovation-specific capacity for ES implementation and offers promising preliminary findings regarding the role of TTA for improving coalitions' capacity to facilitate policy change.
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