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Assessing success in a coalition-based environmental prevention programme targeting alcohol abuse and harms: Process measures from the Harvard School of Public Health ‘A Matter of Degree’ programme evaluation

Community-based prevention programmes that aim to reduce alcohol abuse and harms can experience tensions among participants, including external or expert agents working to catalyze change, local or grassroots change agents, and others. Tensions may be particularly acute in environmental efforts where altering aspects of the community are the focus and where there is a variety of agendas and voices. Because tensions can impede even well conceptualized efforts, it may be important to consider whether being community-based, with its attendant complexities, is a necessary criterion for a project’s success, and if so, how to measure it. Meaningful measures may contribute to diagnosing and resolving tensions if they effectively pinpoint differences in opinion, strategy, priority and power. In this paper we argue for including several measures of community-based and environmental programme development within a comprehensive assessment of programme success. Measures reflect methods used in the ‘A Matter of Degree’ (AMOD) programme evaluation. AMOD is a ten-site demonstration testing the efficacy of an environmental approach to reducing binge drinking and related harms among college students in the United States.