An Evaluation of Retail Outlets as Part of a Community Prevention Trial to Reduce Sales of Harmful Legal Products to Youth

Matthew W. Courser, Harold D. Holder, David Collins, Knowlton Johnson and Kristen Ogilvie
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Matthew W. Courser: Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation—Louisville Center
Harold D. Holder: Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation—Prevention Research Center
David Collins: Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation—Louisville Center
Knowlton Johnson: Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation—Louisville Center
Kristen Ogilvie: Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation—Alaska Office

Evaluation Review, 2007, vol. 31, issue 4, 343-363

Abstract: Communities across the nation have become increasingly concerned about inhalant use and use of harmful legal products among youth because of increasing prevalence rates and deleterious health consequences from abusing these products. The increasing concern of communities about inhaling and ingesting legal products has been coupled with increasing awareness and concern about ability of youth to access and abuse a variety of other legal retail products. There are few examples of scientifically designed community prevention projects that seek to reduce youth abuse of such legal products. This article describes a community prevention trial that is designed to reduce sales of inhalants and other harmful legal products to youth and demonstrates how the retailer component of the trial can be rigorously evaluated. It also shows how data from youth purchase attempts can complement survey data from retailers.

Keywords: environmental strategies; youth purchase attempts; retailers; community prevention trial (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1177/0193841X07301201

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