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Abstract
This study evaluates the impact of a self-help pamphlet designed to support self-control of drinking. It was conducted in Helsinki, Finland, in 2001 and 2002 and focused on men between 30 and 49 years of age. The respondents were randomly selected in an intervention and a control area and compared with each other before and after the intervention using independent samples (N = 4418) The results support previous findings showing that interventions like this serve as a supplement to other prevention and early treatment measures. Although the results were encouraging, there is a need for more in-depth studies in the field.
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Thomas Karlsson
Thomas Karlsson, M. Soc. Sc., is a researcher at the Alcohol and Drug Research Group at the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (STAKES) in Helsinki, Finland. Before becoming a researcher at STAKES, he worked as a Project Secretary at the Nordic Council for Alcohol and Drug Research (1998–2000). He has published international comparisons on alcohol policies and drinking habits as well as evaluations on local and national alcohol prevention projects and programs.
Kirsimarja Raitasalo
Kirsimarja Raitasalois a researcher at the Alcohol and Drug Research Group at the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (STAKES) in Helsinki, Finland. Her special interests are related to alcohol and family, and informal control of drinking. She has also published research on validity of survey research as well as evaluations on local alcohol prevention projects.
Marja Holmila
Marja Holmila, Ph.D., is Research Professor at the Alcohol and Drug Research Group, National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, Finland. Her main fields of interest are studies on prevention, community, family, gender, and alcohol policies. She has published several books on community-based prevention studies and family and alcohol and has led large community-based prevention projects to reduce alcohol-related harms. She is currently leading a multisite research-based project (PAKKA) measuring the effectiveness of local alcohol policies in Finland.
Anja Koski-Jännes
Anja Koski-Jännes, PhD, is Professor of Social Psychology at the Department of Sociology and Social Psychology, at the University of Tampere, Finland. Her special research interests during the last few years have been treatment of addictive behaviors, recovery from addictive behaviors, narrative research, and Internet-based interventions.
Heikki Ollikainen
Heikki Ollikainen, M. Soc. Sc., is an Information Officer at the Department of Social Services, City of Helsinki. He has been working as an information officer in the alcohol education field since 1990 planning and implementing secondary prevention measures. His Licentiate Thesis (postgraduate degree) was examined in December 2004, and it analyses Finnish alcoholism debates on the Internet.
Jussi Simpura
Jussi Simpura, Ph.D., Director, Social Statistics, at Statistics Finland ( [email protected]). In his former career, he worked 25 years as an alcohol researcher at the Social Research Institute of Alcohol Studies, later Alcohol and Drug Research Group at National Research and Development Centre for Health and Social Welfare in Helsinki, Finland. His research interests have ranged from surveys on alcohol consumption and drinking patterns to the study of social problems and social policies, including preventive alcohol policies. Much of his work has been about international comparisons in Europe, in particular in the Baltic Sea Region and the Nordic countries. Presently, he tries to devote some of his time to the study of social capital, and, as a separate topic, to the study of the use and production of statistical materials in politics of well-being.