Children are more likely to start drinking alcohol, drink more frequently and get drunk if their parents have a lenient attitude towards drinking, finds a study from researchers at the University of Cambridge and the University of East Anglia. Alcohol use is one of the biggest risk factors for social and physical harm and has […]
Targeting parental attitudes does not reduce adolescents’ alcohol use, according to a study of the ‘Effekt’ alcohol prevention program in Estonia
An alcohol prevention program that was implemented in Estonia to try to tackle high rates of alcohol use amongst adolescents does not appear to make any significant difference to the young people’s alcohol use, according to a randomised controlled trial amongst 985 fifth-graders and their parents. Alcohol use is very common among adolescents in Estonia […]
Meet the BSG Team: Mariliis Tael-Öeren
Meet PhD student Mariliis Tael-Öeren – the first in our new series of getting to know the people who make up the Behavioural Science Group. Mariliis is researching children’s alcohol use prevention in Estonia. For the past seven years she has been working at the National Institute of Health Development in Estonia, where she implemented […]