College Attendance and Heavy Drinking in Young Adulthood

青年时期的大学入学率和酗酒

基本信息

批准号：
6782750
负责人：
MALLIE J PASCHALL
金额：
$ 18.84万
依托单位：
PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RES AND EVALUATION
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2002
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2002-09-01 至 2006-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A number of epidemiological and etiological studies suggest that college attendance increases the likelihood of heavy drinking and related health and social problems in young adulthood. However, the research literature has not adequately addressed the extent to which the relationship between college attendance and heavy drinking and relatedproblems may be attributable to pre-existing factors in adolescence (e.g., parent drinking/alcoholism, alcohol availability at home, peer drinking), rather than factors more directly linked with college attendance. Further research is also needed to better understand the role of various contextual and individual factors in young adulthood (e.g., adult roles/responsibilities, living arrangement, local alcohol availability) in helping to explain the relationship between college attendance and heavy drinking/related problems. This study will address these issues using two waves of longitudinal data from a national probability sample of adolescents and young adults. It will also examine racial/ethnicdifferences in the relationship between college attendance and heavy drinking/related problems, as some research suggests that college attendance increases the likelihood of alcohol misuse among whites, but not African Americans. Secondary aims of this study are to examine and explain the possible moderating effects of gender, and differences in heavy drinking/related problems across young adult subgroups (e.g., 2-year versus 4-year college students). This study will utilize two waves of interview data collected for the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). In-home interviews were conducted in 1995 with 20,745 adolescents and their parents and siblings, and these individuals are being re-interviewed in young adulthood (2001-2002). The Add Health study uses state-of-the-art audio computer-assisted interviewing technology and geocodes respondent addresses to support contextual analyses. This study will geocode alcohol outlet addresses available from State Alcohol Beverage Control and local government offices and will link measures of local alcohol outlet density with the geocoded addresses of Add Health subjects to assess the explanatory value of local alcohol availability measures. The Add Health study provides an excellent opportunity to address important questions about the relationship between college attendance and heavy drinking/related problems with longitudinal data from a large nationally representative sample, and without the cost and time required to initiate a new prospective cohort study. Findings of this study will help to inform prevention strategies targeting college students and other young adults at high risk for alcohol-related problems.

描述（由申请人提供）：许多流行病学和病因研究表明，大学上学增加了大量饮酒以及相关的健康和社会问题的可能性。但是，研究文献尚未充分解决大学出勤与大量饮酒和相关问题之间的关系的程度，可能归因于青春期的先前因素（例如，家长饮酒/酒精中毒，家里的酒精饮酒，同伴饮酒），而不是与大学出勤更直接相关的因素。还需要进一步的研究，以更好地了解各种情境和个人因素在成年期（例如成人角色/职责，生活安排，当地酒精的可用性）中的作用，以帮助解释大学出勤与饮酒/相关问题之间的关系。这项研究将使用来自青少年和年轻人的全国概率样本的两个纵向数据浪潮来解决这些问题。它还将研究大学出勤与大量饮酒/相关问题之间关系中的种族/种族不同，因为一些研究表明，大学出勤增加了白人之间滥用酗酒的可能性，而不是非裔美国人。这项研究的次要目的是检查和解释性别的调节作用，以及年轻成人子组的重饮酒/相关问题的差异（例如，2年对4年的大学生）。这项研究将利用两次收集的访谈数据，用于全国青少年健康纵向研究（ADD HEALTY）。 1995年，对20,745名青少年及其父母和兄弟姐妹进行了家庭访谈，这些人在年轻人（2001-2002）进行了重新审视。 Add Health研究使用最先进的音频计算机辅助访谈技术和地理编码的受访者地址来支持上下文分析。这项研究将通过州酒精饮料控制和地方政府办事处可用的地理货币出口地址，并将将当地酒精插座密度的度量与添加健康受试者的地理编码地址联系起来，以评估当地酒精可用性指标的解释价值。 Add Health研究提供了一个绝佳的机会，可以解决有关大学出勤与大量饮酒/相关问题之间的关系的重要问题，以及来自大型全国代表性样本的纵向数据，并且没有启动新的前瞻性队列研究所需的成本和时间。这项研究的结果将有助于为针对大学生和其他与酒精有关的问题高风险的预防策略提供信息。