Our Choice is a large-scale prevention study, funded by the TrygFonden foundation, conducted at Aarhus University, Denmark, examining how adolescent alcohol use can be reduced during the critical transition into high school. The project evaluates school-, parent-, and student-level interventions designed to prevent hazardous drinking and related health risks among Danish high school students. By following students over their first year of high school, Our Choice aims to generate evidence that can inform effective, low-cost alcohol prevention strategies and policy. The protocol paper is available here.

Within the Our Choice project, my research focuses on social attunement at the start of high school. I am validating the Danish version of the Social Attunement Questionnaire (SAQ) and examining how social attunement is associated with alcohol use trajectories over time. Using longitudinal data, I investigate non-linear associations between social attunement and drinking behavior, as well as the moderating role of peer and parental norms. This work aims to improve our understanding of why some adolescents are particularly vulnerable to social influences on alcohol use, and how prevention efforts can better account for these social dynamics.