TY - JOUR T1 - Reducing alcohol-related harm and social disorder in a university community: a framework for evaluation JF - Injury Prevention JO - Inj Prev SP - e1 LP - e1 DO - 10.1136/ip.2010.027961 VL - 16 IS - 5 AU - Kimberly Cousins AU - Jennie L Connor AU - Kypros Kypri Y1 - 2010/10/01 UR - http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/16/5/e1.abstract N2 - Background In New Zealand and other middle to high income countries, university student are at high risk of alcohol-related injury and other problems due to their typical pattern of episodic heavy drinking. In 2007, one university implemented Campus Watch, a novel and extensive programme to reduce social disorder, including alcohol-related injury, in the university area.Objectives To quantify the effects of this complex intervention.Setting A large public university campus and surrounding community in New Zealand.Design A health promotion evaluation model was used, examining: (1) how the programme was developed, introduced and received by the community? (process); (2) whether the programme affected behaviour? (impact); and (3) whether the programme reduced social disorder and alcohol-related harm in particular? (outcome). The outcome phase uses a non-equivalent control group design to measure changes occurring in the Campus Watch area compared with other universities, and with a same-city control site.Participants Programme staff, university students and other community members.Data Interviews with university administrators and Campus Watch staff; surveys of local residents' views; Campus Watch incident data; national surveys of university students in 2005, 2007 and 2009; police data; fire department data.Outcome Measures Prevalence of heavy episodic drinking; number of acute alcohol-related harms; incidence of antisocial behaviour, assault and street fires.Analysis Regression analyses will be used to examine changes in the intervention site relative to changes in the control areas. ER -