All-Wales licensed premises intervention (AWLPI): a randomised controlled trial to reduce alcohol-related violence

Moore, Simon Christopher, O'Brien, Claire, Alam, Mohammed, Cohen, David, Hood, Kerenza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5268-8631, Huang, Chao, Moore, Laurence Anthony Russell, Murphy, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3589-3681, Playle, Rebecca Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2989-1092, Sivarajasingam, Vaseekaran ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3541-592X, Spasic, Irena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8132-3885, Williams, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4737-219X and Shepherd, Jonathan Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6466-2298 2014. All-Wales licensed premises intervention (AWLPI): a randomised controlled trial to reduce alcohol-related violence. BMC Public Health 14 (1) , -. 10.1186/1471-2458-14-21

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Abstract

Background: Alcohol-related violence in and in the vicinity of licensed premises continues to place a considerable burden on the United Kingdom’s (UK) health services. Robust interventions targeted at licensed premises are therefore required to reduce the costs of alcohol-related harm. Previous evaluations of interventions in licensed premises have a number of methodological limitations and none have been conducted in the UK. The aim of the trial was to determine the effectiveness of the Safety Management in Licensed Environments intervention designed to reduce alcohol-related violence in licensed premises, delivered by Environmental Health Officers, under their statutory authority to intervene in cases of violence in the workplace. Methods/Design: A national randomised controlled trial, with licensed premises as the unit of allocation. Premises were identified from all 22 Local Authorities in Wales. Eligible premises were those with identifiable violent incidents on premises, using police recorded violence data. Premises were allocated to intervention or control by optimally balancing by Environmental Health Officer capacity in each Local Authority, number of violent incidents in the 12 months leading up to the start of the project and opening hours. The primary outcome measure is the difference in frequency of violence between intervention and control premises over a 12 month follow-up period, based on a recurrent event model. The trial incorporates an embedded process evaluation to assess intervention implementation, fidelity, reach and reception, and to interpret outcome effects, as well as investigate its economic impact. Discussion: The results of the trial will be applicable to all statutory authorities directly involved with managing violence in the night time economy and will provide the first formal test of Health and Safety policy in this environment. If successful, opportunities for replication and generalisation will be considered.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Dentistry Computer Science & Informatics Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Medicine Crime and Security Research Institute (CSURI)
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Alcohol; Violence; Licensed premises; Night time economy; Health and safety
Publisher:	BMC
ISSN:	1471-2458
Funders:	NIHR PHR, ESRC, Wellcome Trust, MRC, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Date of Acceptance:	18 December 2013
Last Modified:	11 Nov 2024 23:17
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/56949

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