Alcohol Abuse Amongst Children - A Literature Review of Risk Factors

Key Words One - Dropping out of School

When issues you are talking about get complicated-find a diagram to do the work for you. But you must cite your source.

Tell the reader why your topic is important and worthy of a 1500 word literature review

Alcohol abuse amongst children is important because statistics released from Public Health England suggest that alcohol abuse amongst teenagers is increasing with 1 in 5 teenagers between the ages of 11 to 17 years currently abusing alcohol (Public Health England, 2019).

Write more detail about the report (for example, how many people surveyed? Is the study still in progress? What were their other findings?

Finish your introduction by telling the reader how your literature review will help improve the problem (for example, if we can better understand what causes alcohol abuse amongst teenagers, we can act to prevent the problem and develop health policies which help address the problem and better support teenagers who are at risk of alcohol abuse.

Main body (middle of the essay) (1100 words)

Use your key words (ideas) to develop your main points as paragraphs. So, let’s say my key words are as follows: dropping out of school; history of alcohol abuse in the family; lack of supervision; lack of resources in their community. Create four headings as follows:

Key Words One-Dropping out of school (225 words)

Study 1: What was the aim of the study? Who were their cohort (study group)? Where did they conduct the study? What were their findings?

For example, Brown and Patel (2020) conducted a study amongst a cohort of boys aged between eleven and seventeen years of age, living in high rise flats in major cities across the United Kingdom.

The aim of the study was to see if living in dense (highly populated) community settings caused or prevented alcohol abuse amongst the group. Their findings suggested that densely populated areas alone did not cause alcohol abuse in teenage boys, but that such densely populated community settings encouraged young boys to travel to parks and shopping centres, where they could socialise with their friends. These facilities tended to be some distance from their homes which made parental supervision very difficult. The findings of the study suggested that these two factors combined put teenage boys at risk of alcohol abuse. However, the authors failed to compare (this is your angle) their cohort with densely populated communities with more local resources for teenage boys where parental supervision was much more likely.

Study 2: What was the aim of the study? Who were their cohort (study group)? Where did they conduct the study? What were their findings?

Summary of this theme: What was similar (the same) about the findings of study 1 and study 2? Did study 1 and 2 have any different findings? Find an angle to study 1 and 2 which they missed.

Key Words Two-History of alcohol abuse in the family (225 words)

Study 1: What was the aim of the study? Who were their cohort (study group)? Where did they conduct the study? What were their findings?

Study 2: What was the aim of the study? Who were their cohort (study group)? Where did they conduct the study? What were their findings?

Summary of this theme: What was similar (the same) about the findings of study 1 and study 2? Did study 1 and 2 have any different findings? Find an angle to study 1 and 2 which they missed.

Key Words Three-Lack of parental supervision (225 words)

Study 1: What was the aim of the study? Who were their cohort (study group)? Where did they conduct the study? What were their findings?

Study 2: What was the aim of the study? Who were their cohort (study group)? Where did they conduct the study? What were their findings?

Summary of this theme: What was similar (the same) about the findings of study 1 and study 2? Did study 1 and 2 have any different findings? Find an angle to study 1 and 2 which they missed.

Key Words Four-Lack of resources in the community. (225 words)

Study 1: What was the aim of the study? Who were their cohort (study group)? Where did they conduct the study? What were their findings?

Study 2: What was the aim of the study? Who were their cohort (study group)? Where did they conduct the study? What were their findings?

Summary of this theme: What was similar (the same) about the findings of study 1 and study 2? Did study 1 and 2 have any different findings? Find an angle to study 1 and 2 which they missed.

1.Summarise the findings from your studies (100 words)

2.Point to the areas which your studies did not cover (50 words)

3.State why the points your studies failed to cover are important (for example, does not provide enough evidence to campaign for more resources in densely populated communities; does not create awareness of the issue amongst healthcare providers, teachers etc; does not address safeguarding issues or promote person centred care