TRAINING BAR PERSONNEL TO PREVENT DRUNKEN DRIVING: A FIELD EVALUATION
The potential of a server intervention program to decrease the likelihood that a bar patron will leave a bar intoxicated was evaluated. Research assistants posing as regular patrons ("pseudopatrons") visited two bars where about half of the servers had received server intervention training. Pseudopatrons set the occasion for server intervention to occur by drinking six alcoholic beverages in two hours. The blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) of the pseudopatrons was measured after they left the bar. Results revealed that trained servers initiated more server interventions than did untrained personnel. Moreover, pseudopatrons served by trained personnel reached substantially lower BACs than those served by untrained servers. These results suggest that, if implemented on a large scale, server intervention programs have the potential of reducing drunken driving by helping to decrease the exit BACs of bar patrons.
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Corporate Authors:
American Public Health Association
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Authors:
- RUSS, N W
- Geller, E S
- Publication Date: 1987-8
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 952-954
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Serial:
- American Journal of Public Health
- Volume: 77
- Issue Number: 8
- Publisher: American Public Health Association
- ISSN: 0090-0036
- EISSN: 1541-0048
- Serial URL: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/loi/ajph
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Alcoholic beverages; Blood alcohol levels; Driver rehabilitation; Drunk drivers; Drunk driving; Field tests; Measures of effectiveness; Prevention; Training
- Uncontrolled Terms: Decreases; Effectiveness; Intervention
- Old TRIS Terms: Servers
- Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00493567
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Report/Paper Numbers: HS-040 273
- Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
- Created Date: Apr 30 1990 12:00AM