Evaluation of In:tuition- life-skills based interactive teaching resource for primary and secondary schools (study 2 – 12- and 13-year-old children)

INTERVENTION: In:tuition is a free life‐skills based interactive teaching resource for primary and secondary schools developed by alcohol education charity Drinkaware. Duration of intervention: 12 weeks of one lesson per week. Participants are randomised into two groups: 1. The experimental group will consist of 2000 pupils across 40 schools who shall receive the In:tuition programme over 12 weeks; one lesson per week. 2. The control group will consist of 2000 pupils across 40 schools who shall receive their normal Personal, Social and Health education. CONDITION: Alcohol misuse ; Mental and Behavioural Disorders PRIMARY OUTCOME: 1. Frequency of drinking (once a month or more); All outcomes are measured once at baseline (June 2013) and once a follow‐up (May 2014) SECONDARY OUTCOME: 1. Onset of drinking ; 2. Knowledge of health effects of alcohol ; 3. Resistance skills (confidence to manage peer pressure); 4. Decision‐making skills; 5. Understanding of social norms relating to alcohol INCLUSION CRITERIA: Students in year 7 of secondary school i.e. aged 11 and 12