Long Term Evaluation of COMPARI (LTEC)

  • Research program:
  • Project status: Completed
  • Start date: March 1995
  • Expected end date: March 1997
  • Completion date: December 1997
  • Funded by: Healthway
  • Lead organisation:

This project is a follow on from the COMPARI, community based alcohol harm reduction project. It aims to maximise what can be learned about how a large scale community intervention influenced its host community; how the project changed when institutionalised at the local level; and what outcomes were produced in the longer term.

Name & Contact Details Role Research Program Location
  • Chief Investigator: Richard Midford, Curtin University
  • Project staff: Kevin Boots,

This project aligns with the following Sustainable Development Goals and Targets:

Boots, K. and Midford, R. (1999). From resentment to enthusiasm: How a university initiated alcohol harm reduction research project evolved into Western Australia's largest regional community drug service team. In Casswell, S., Holder, H., Holmila, M., Larsson, S., Midford, R., Barnes, H., Nygaard, P. and Stewart, L. (eds.) Kettil Bruun Society Thematic Meeting Fourth Symposium on Community Action Research and the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems. University of Auckland, Auckland. pp. 302-309. ISBN: 1-877199-07-9 [CH83]

Midford, R., Boots, K., Masters, L. and Chikritzhs, T., N. (1999). Time series analysis of outcome measures from a community alcohol harm reduction project in Australia. In Casswell, S., Holder, H., Holmila, M., Larsson, S., Midford, R., Barnes, H., Nygaard, P. and Stewart, L. (eds.) Kettil Bruun Society Thematic Meeting Fourth Symposium on Community Action Research and the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems. University of Auckland, Auckland. pp. 278-290. ISBN: 1-877199-07-9 [CH82]

Midford, R. and Boots, K. (1997). COMPARI: A cocktail of strategies. Community Quarterly, 42, (3), pp. 9-14. [UJ74]

Boots, K., Cutmore, T., A., Midford, R., Harrison, D. and Laughlin, D. (1995). Compari Project Evaluation Report. Reducing Alcohol Related Harm: What can be achieved by a three year community mobilisation project. National Centre for Research into the Prevention of Drug Abuse, Division of Health Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. [T55] Abstract