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David R. Foxcroft is an academic affiliated with Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, predominantly Medicine, Psychology, and Health Professions, with a notable emphasis on subfields such as General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology, Epidemiology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Applied Psychology.

The research topics most frequently addressed by Foxcroft include Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects, Mental Health and Patient Involvement, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Mental Health Treatment and Access, and Smoking Behavior and Cessation.

Foxcroft has contributed to various peer-reviewed publications. Selected recent works include:

  • Exploring the short-term effects of the Strengthening Families Program on Brazilian adolescents: a pre-experimental study, 2020, Drugs Education Prevention and Policy
  • Electronic cigarettes as a smoking cessation aid for patients with cancer: beliefs and behaviours of clinicians in the UK, 2020, BMJ Open
  • Learning Statistics with jamovi, 2025, Open Book Publishers
  • Effectiveness of the Strengthening Families Programme in the UK at preventing substance misuse in 10-14 year-olds: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial, 2022, BMJ Open
  • The Good Behaviour Game intervention to improve behavioural and other outcomes for children aged 7-8 years: a cluster RCT, 2022, Public Health Research

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Foxcroft include Danielle Navarro, Emma Davies, Parvati R. Perman-Howe, Natalie Wilde, and Fiona Matley.

The major publication venues where Foxcroft's work has appeared are BMJ Open, Research Square, Open Book Publishers, Drugs Education Prevention and Policy, and Public Health Research.

Best Publications

  • The effect of alcohol advertising, marketing and portrayal on drinking behaviour in young people: systematic review of prospective cohort studies.

    Lesley A Smith;David R Foxcroft

  • Longer-term primary prevention for alcohol misuse in young people: a systematic review

    D. R. Foxcroft;D. Ireland;D. J. Lister-Sharp;G. Lowe

  • Drug Policy and the Public Good

    Thomas F. Babor;Jonathan P. Caulkins;Griffith Edwards;Benedikt Fischer

  • Cochrane Review: Universal school-based prevention programs for alcohol misuse in young people

    David R Foxcroft;Alexander Tsertsvadze

  • Social norms interventions to reduce alcohol misuse in University or College students

    Maria Teresa Moreira;Lauren A. Smith;David R. Foxcroft

  • Effects of educational and psychosocial interventions for adolescents with diabetes mellitus: a systematic review.

    SE Hampson;TC Skinner;J Hart;L Storey

  • Drug policy and the public good: evidence for effective interventions

    John Strang;Thomas Babor;Jonathan Caulkins;Jonathan Caulkins;Benedikt Fischer;Benedikt Fischer

  • Universal school-based prevention programs for alcohol misuse in young people

    David R Foxcroft;Alexander Tsertsvadze

  • Alcohol misuse prevention for young people: a systematic review reveals methodological concerns and lack of reliable evidence of effectiveness

    David R. Foxcroft;Deborah Lister-Sharp;Geoff Lowe

  • Adolescent drinking behaviour and family socialization factors: a meta-analysis.

    David R. Foxcroft;Geoff Lowe

  • Social norms information for alcohol misuse in university and college students

    David R Foxcroft;Maria Teresa Moreira;Nerissa M L Almeida Santimano;Lesley A Smith

  • Primary prevention for alcohol misuse in young people.

    David R. Foxcroft;Diana Ireland;Geoff Lowe;Rosie Breen

  • Therapeutic communities for substance related disorder.

    Lesley A Smith;Simon Gates;David R Foxcroft

  • Diet and the risk of unipolar depression in adults: systematic review of cohort studies

    C Sanhueza;Lisa Ryan;David Foxcroft

  • Interventions for prevention of drug use by young people delivered in non‐school settings

    Simon Gates;Jim McCambridge;Lesley A Smith;David Foxcroft

  • Behavioral interventions for adolescents with type 1 diabetes: how effective are they?

    S E Hampson;T C Skinner;J Hart;L Storey

  • Universal alcohol misuse prevention programmes for children and adolescents: Cochrane systematic reviews

    David R. Foxcroft;Alexander Tsertsvadze

  • Adolescent drinking, smoking and other substance use involvement : links with perceived family life

    David R. Foxcroft;Geoff Lowe

  • Meta-Analysis of the Association of the Taq1A Polymorphism with the Risk of Alcohol Dependency: A HuGE Gene-Disease Association Review

    Lesley Smith;Marion Watson;Simon Gates;David M. Ball

  • TEENAGE ALCOHOL AND INTOXICATION DEBUT: THE IMPACT OF FAMILY SOCIALIZATION FACTORS, LIVING AREA AND PARTICIPATION IN ORGANIZED SPORTS

    E. T. Hellandsjø Bu;R. G. Watten;David R. Foxcroft;J. E. Ingebrigtsen

  • Effectiveness of organisational infrastructures to promote evidence‐based nursing practice

    Gerd Flodgren;Maria Ximena Rojas-Reyes;Nick Cole;David R Foxcroft

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Robin Room La Trobe University
Ingeborg Rossow
Ingeborg Rossow Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Jonathan P. Caulkins
Jonathan P. Caulkins Carnegie Mellon University
María Elena Medina-Mora
María Elena Medina-Mora National Autonomous University of Mexico
Jonathan Scourfield
Jonathan Scourfield Cardiff University
Laurence Moore
Laurence Moore University of Glasgow
Simon Murphy
Simon Murphy Cardiff University
Harry Sumnall
Harry Sumnall Liverpool John Moores University
Sarah E. Hampson
Sarah E. Hampson Oregon Research Institute
Jon C. Cole
Jon C. Cole University of Liverpool

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