title: MADD victim impact panels and stages-of-change in drunk-driving prevention.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the additional effects of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Victim Impact Panels (VIPs) over the effects of a DWI (driving while intoxicated) school, on (1) moving individuals through the stages-of-change toward not drinking while driving and (2) drunk-driving recidivism.
  
  
  METHODS
  A randomized experiment with 813 (75% male) DWI offenders in New Mexico measured progress through the stages-of-change at pretest, posttest, 1-year follow-up and 2-year follow-up. In addition, drunk-driving recidivism over 2 years was measured from state driving records. Individuals were randomly assigned to a DWI school or a DWI school plus a MADD VIP.
  
  
  RESULTS
  No significant difference in movement through the stages-of-change, or in recidivism, occurred between respondents in the DWI-school-only treatment, and those in the DWI school plus VIP treatment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There was no additional effect of the MADD VIP, a relatively emotional intervention, over that of the DWI school, a relatively informational approach, on DWI behavior (whether measured by stages-of-change or by DWI rearrest data) over the 2-year period following the two interventions.
authors: Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Polacsek
authors: E M
authors: EM
authors: Rogers
authors: W G
authors: WG
authors: Woodall
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Delaney
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Wheeler
authors: N
authors: N
authors: Rao
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012657:Self-Help Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012922:Social Change