An integration of statistical approaches to help understand coalition effectiveness

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Although community coalitions have significant promise for reducing substance and alcohol abuse, research on community coalitions has provided mixed results. Whereas some progress has been made towards understanding the dimensions that underlie the effectiveness of coalitions, the research contains several limitations. These limitations include a lack of consensus on measurement tools, limited systematic empirical studies (Kegler, Steckler, McLeroy, & Malek, 1998), and limited research on actual outcomes. The proposed study seeks to address these limitations. There are two levels of participants in this study. The first level of participants consists of eighth-grade students (N=5,045) in Rhode Island. They provided information on perceived risk of alcohol use and past 30-day alcohol use. The second level of participants consists of the coalition members. Members of the coalition included local government, police, school officials, and community citizens. In total, there were 358, 262,

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