[Primary prevention for alcohol misuse in young people: a Cochrane Systematic Review].
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international no-profit organization established in 1992 in UK. The aim of the Collaboration is the conduction, update and dissemination of systematic reviews about health care. Systematic reviews are electronic documents systematically updated which synthesise the results of randomized controlled studies about treatments. The Cochrane Group on Drugs and Alcohol has the editorial base in Rome (Department of Epidemiology ASL RME) where the Coordinator, the Coordinating Editor and the Trial Search Coordinator, coordinate the work of seven editors based in several countries. As of April 2003 we published 17 reviews and 11 protocols of review. The systematic reviews on primary prevention for alcohol misuse in young people, was conducted by David Foxcroft and published by the group in 2002. The objectives of the systematic review were the identification and synthesis of the studies on psychosocial and educational programs for prevention of alcohol abuse and the assessment of long term interventions (over three years).
Gruppo Editoriale Cochrane su Droghe ed Alcol, Dipartimento di Epidemiologia ASL RME, Rome. ferri@asplazio.it
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D000293:Adolescent; D019973:Alcohol-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000379:methods*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic