INTERVENING WITH FRATERNITIES TO DECREASE ALCOHOL ABUSE

干预兄弟会以减少酗酒

• 批准号: 2805471
• 负责人: E SCOTT GELLER
• 金额: $ 1.79万
• 依托单位: VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-09-30 至 1999-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2805471
• 关键词: alcoholic beverage consumption; alcoholism /alcohol abuse prevention; attitude; behavioral /social science research tag; decision making; human subject; social behavior; social organization; substance abuse epidemiology; university student

DESCRIPTION: This two-year application combines the practical technology of applied behavior analysis with theories from learning, social influence, and personality research to develop cost-effective interventions for decreasing at-risk alcohol consumption and its associated negative effects. The subjects are university students attending fraternity-sponsored parties where excessive alcohol is consumed. The methodology extends the investigators' prior NIAAA-supported research by assessing on-going party behaviors and conditions that potentially increase or decrease alcohol consumption, as well as measuring beliefs, intentions, and blood alcohol concentration (BAC) immediately before and after students attend 24 different fraternity/sorority parties. The systematic observation of party behaviors and conditions will be used to develop a Host Intervention program for field-testing during the second year of the grant period. Two contrasting education/training approaches to reduce at-risk alcohol consumption and associated negative consequences (especially DUI) would be evaluated during the first year. Each intervention approach (i.e. Resistance Skills vs. Normative Feedback) has a solid theoretical foundation and is used frequently in education/training approaches to reduce alcohol abuse. Objective behavioral evidence regarding the relative impact of these intervention approaches is nonexistent. The proposed research develops interventions from these differing approaches for a college population and compares their impact on norms, attitudes, and intentions regarding alcohol consumption, as well as on actual BAC and party behaviors. The results of this evaluation will lead to the development of a combined Resistance Skills plus Feedback intervention that will be tested during the second year and compared with a Host Intervention program. The investigators' prior NIAAA-funded research has shown that party-goers' intentions regarding levels of alcohol impairment match closely to their actual BAC at the end of the party. This finding supports Azjen and Fishbein's Theory of Reasoned Action and suggests that interventions successful at reducing intentions to drink excessive alcoholic beverages will also reduce at-risk drinking. The interventions in the present application were designed with this in mind and should be more influential than the interventions tested in our prior research. Unlike the investigators' prior approaches, these interventions will involve fraternity and sorority members before the parties and empower them to make a difference.

描述：这个为期两年的应用结合了实用技术 通过学习，社会影响和 人格研究以开发具有成本效益的干预措施以减少 处于风险的酒精消耗及其相关的负面影响。 这 学科是参加兄弟会赞助聚会的大学生 食用过量酒精的地方。 该方法扩展了 调查人员以前的NIAAA支持的研究通过评估正在进行的政党 可能增加或减少酒精的行为和条件 消费以及衡量信念，意图和血液酒精 在学生参加24岁之前和之后的集中度（BAC）24 不同的兄弟会/恋爱聚会。 党的系统观察 行为和条件将用于制定宿主干预计划 在赠款期间的第二年进行现场测试。 二 对比的教育/培训方法可减少高危酒精 消费和相关的负面后果（尤其是DUI）将是 在第一年进行评估。 每种干预方法（即 抵抗技能与规范反馈）具有坚实的理论基础 并经常用于减少酒精的教育/培训方法 虐待。 有关这些相对影响的客观行为证据 干预方法不存在。 拟议的研究正在发展 这些不同方法的干预措施为大学人口和 比较它们对酒精的规范，态度和意图的影响 消费以及实际的BAC和政党行为。 结果 这种评估将导致综合抵抗技能的发展 加上将在第二年进行测试的反馈干预措施 与主机干预计划相比。 调查人员先前由NIAAA资助的研究表明，参加聚会的人” 关于酒精障碍水平的意图与他们的意图紧密匹配 党末的实际BAC。 这一发现支持Azjen和 Fishbein的合理行动理论，并提出干预措施 成功减少饮酒过多的酒精饮料的意图 还将减少高危饮酒。 目前的干预措施 考虑到这一点，应用程序的设计，应该更具影响力 比我们先前研究中测试的干预措施。 不像 调查人员的先前方法，这些干预措施将涉及兄弟会 在当事人面前的哀悼成员，并授权他们做一个 不同之处。