Martinez R, Levine DW, Martin R, Altman DG.  Effect of integration of injury control information into a high school physics course.  Annals of Emergency Medicine 1996;27(2):216-24.

This study assessed the effects of incorporating crash safety information into a high school physics curriculum on students' knowledge, attitudes, and self-reported behaviors.  Authors concluded that integration of driver safety education into midstream science courses could prove to be successful.

Antti-Poika I, Karaharju E, Roine R, Salaspuro M.  Intervention of heavy drinking - A prospective and controlled study of 438 consecutive injured male patients.  Alcohol and Alcoholism 1988;23(2):115-21.

In this study, 120 injured male patients who classified as heavy drinkers or alcoholics were randomly allocated to either an intervention group or a control group.  Men in the intervention group received counseling from a trained assistant nurse and a physician.  Six months following the intervention, 45% of the intervention group and 20% of the control group decreased their alcohol consumption by 1/3 (p <.05).

Geller ES, Elder JP, Hovell MF, Sleet DA.  Behavioral approaches to drinking-driving interventions.  In W Ward, FM Lewis (Eds).  Advances in Health Education and Promotion.  UK:  Jessica Kingsley Press, Vol III, pp 45-68, 1991. 

This is a review of some of the evidence linking behavioral science methods and approaches to the reduction of drinking and driving.  The chapter illustrates that developing effective preventive interventions requires an analysis of the problem behavior, the individual and social factors, and the drinking and driving environment.  The emphasis is on strategies that go beyond providing information and education, and include behavior modification approaches and discussion of the antecedent-behavior-consequence approach to the DWI problem (96 references).



Sleet DA, Wagenaar A, Waller P (Eds).  Drinking, Driving and Health Promotion. Health Education Quarterly 1989;16(3):(whole issue).

Health promotion has been a latecomer to efforts to reduce alcohol-impaired driving.  Individual and community actions, fostered by education, stimulated by changing social norms, and encouraged through public policy are the immediate objects of health promotion.  This volume bridges problems related to drinking and driving and solutions based in health promotion.  Articles include epidemiology of the problem, theory of attribution, social factors, youth decision making, DWI programs planning models, public policy alternatives, and server interventions, and a resource guide showing the relevance of applying health promotion approaches to reduce drinking and driving.  (With a forward by former U.S. Surgeon General  C. Everett Koop.)