Prevention of alcohol and drug misuse in adolescents: An overview of systematic reviews:

Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

ElkeEmmers¹ 

关键词: meta-review;    prevention;    alcohol misuse;    substance use;    adolescents;   

DOI  :  10.1515/nsad-2015-0019

学科分类：生物化学/生物物理

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Background– Systematic reviews have evaluated a wide variety of programmes aiming to prevent, reduce or delay substance use in adolescents. This paper presents an overview of recent systematic reviews, summarising the evidence on the effectiveness of prevention strategies which target adolescents misusing alcohol and/or drugs.Methods– We performed a comprehensive search in major electronic databases, consulted websites and checked reference lists of relevant articles. Studies that met our inclusion criteria were critically appraised using the AMSTAR instrument. The findings from the included systematic reviews were synthesised using a vote counting procedure.Results– Twenty-one systematic reviews were identified. Ten of these were rated as of high quality. There was little overlap between reviews in terms of the target group, intervention, setting and outcome measures. The components or mechanisms of the prevention programmes were poorly described. Ten reviews evaluated school-based prevention. The effect...

【 授权许可】

CC BY