School of Communication, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
J Stud Alcohol Drugs. 2012 Mar;73(2):311-5. doi: 10.15288/jsad.2012.73.311.
Prior research has shown that the proportion of news stories about violent crimes, car crashes, and other unintended injuries that mention the possible contributing role of alcohol is far lower than the actual proportion of alcohol-related crimes and unintended injuries. An experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that inclusion of such mention can increase concern about alcohol risks and support for alcohol-control measures, which have elsewhere been shown to decrease alcohol-related problems in community settings. Methodologically, we provide a model for experiments permitting generalization across randomly selected message stimuli.
Sixty randomly selected local news stories on violent crime, motor vehicle crashes, and other unintended injuries from newspapers throughout the United States were manipulated into versions including or not including alcohol as a causative factor. Participants (n = 785) were drawn from a national online research panel representative of the U.S. population; 66% of panel members contacted agreed to participate. Data were analyzed using mixed-effect, multilevel models to permit generalization across message and participant variability.
Mention of alcohol in news stories increased support for enforcement of alcohol-control laws.
Efforts to increase mention of alcohol as a causative factor in news reports of violent crime and unintended injury have the potential to increase public support for alcohol-control policies.
先前的研究表明，关于暴力犯罪、车祸和其他非故意伤害的新闻报道中提到酒精可能起到促成作用的比例远低于实际的酒精相关犯罪和非故意伤害的比例。进行了一项实验以验证以下假设：提及此类因素可以增加对酒精风险的关注并支持控制酒精的措施，这些措施在社区环境中已被证明可以减少与酒精相关的问题。在方法学上，我们提供了一个模型，允许对随机选择的消息刺激进行概括。
从美国各地的报纸中随机选择了 60 篇关于暴力犯罪、机动车事故和其他非故意伤害的本地新闻报道，并将其处理为包含或不包含酒精作为致病因素的版本。参与者（n = 785）来自全国在线研究小组，该小组代表美国人口；联系到的 66%的小组成员同意参与。使用混合效应、多层次模型分析数据，以允许对消息和参与者的变异性进行概括。
新闻报道中提到酒精会增加对执行酒精控制法的支持。
增加在暴力犯罪和非故意伤害的新闻报道中提到酒精是致病因素的努力有潜力增加公众对酒精控制政策的支持。
