CIPPAL survey

This study is part of the International Comparison of Public Policies for Controlling the Attractiveness and Accessibility of Alcohol (CIPPAL) project. Its name is CIPPAL-ADAM.

It is the result of a consultation of French, European, and Quebec experts organised in 2022 to identify priority research questions in the field of alcohol compliance checks.

Background

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and its member states consider that the commercial or public availability of alcohol is an essential public health lever for reducing alcohol-related harm (Babor, 2010 ; Babor et al., 2010 ; WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2021). Regulating the attractiveness of alcoholic products by regulating advertising and marketing is another lever considered a priority by the WHO. The protection of minors remains a major objective of these policies.

Health policies aimed at reducing alcohol-related harm fall within the OFDT's field of observation and are a central subject of its work programme for the period 2022-2025. Since 2015, the OFDT has been interested in young people's exposure to alcohol marketing approaches, by developing an exposure measurement module (FAMES) as part of the ESPAD surveys in 2015, ESCAPAD in 2017, and an observational study in supermarkets, music festivals, in sports environment, and on the internet in 2017-2019 (Mutatayi and Spilka, 2019, 2020).

Goals

The CIPPAL-ADAM study aims at answering the following research question:

“How do different national regulations on alcohol marketing and advertising via audiovisual media and the Internet influence teenagers and young adults’ awareness of and exposure to marketing channels? What are the differences and similarities? ”

Partnerships

The prefiguration study and the CIPPAL-ADAM study are supported by the Fund for Combating Addiction. Five European partners joined the OFDT to implement the study in their respective countries:

• Finland, university of Helsinki
• Ireland, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Technological University of the Shannon (TUS),
• Italy, Eclectica + Research and training Social Enterprise
• Lithuania, Lithuanian Tobacco and Alcohol Control Coalition (NTAKK)
• Switzerland, Groupe roman d’études des addictions (GREA)

Methods

A common, mixed methodological protocol is being put in place in the six participating countries, based on common guidelines and tools for data collection and comparative analysis. Documentary, qualitative, and quantitative approaches will be combines.

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• Literature review/Legal, political, and professional reference standards in each country.
•  Qualitative semi-structured interviews/20 young people aged 16-19 per country. 
• Quantitative online survey/400 to 1 000 young people aged 15 to 21 depending on the country.

Expected results

By the end of 2025, the analysis should reveal the lessons to be learned from specific national experiences and the context in which they were implemented. It will support the levers for action, trade-offs, and considerations involved in public policy choices (articulations of health, economic, and public order considerations, etc.). It will seek to identify the social acceptability of these policies to young people and compare levels of exposure to audiovisual and digital marketing in favour of alcohol.

Références

Links accessible on 27/03/2024

• Babor T. (2010) Alcohol: no ordinary commodity - A summary of the second edition. Addiction, Vol. 105, n°5, p.769-779. 

• Babor T., Caetano R., Casswell S., Edwards G., Giesbrecht N., Graham K. (2010) Alcohol: no ordinary commodity - Research and public policy. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 

• WHO Regional Office for Europe (2021) Making the WHO European region safer: Developments in alcohol control policies, 2010-2019. Copenhagen, WHO Regional Office for Europe, 62p.