College Drinking and Its Long-Term Consequences

大学饮酒及其长期后果

基本信息

批准号：
6796190
负责人：
DANIEL H KLEPINGER
金额：
$ 9.88万
依托单位：
BATTELLE CENTERS/PUB HLTH RES & EVALUATN
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：
2002-09-25 至 2006-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Despite implementation of a variety of policies and programs designed to reduce under-age and excessive drinking on college campuses, alcohol abuse among college students remains a serious problem. Recent figures indicate that 62% of young adults aged 18 to 22 enrolled in college report using alcohol in the last month, 41% report binge drinking in the last month, and 16% report heavy use of alcohol in the last month. These figures for college students are higher than those observed for same-age peers who are not in college, and have remained fairly stable over the past two decades. Given that alcohol abuse can have serious health and social consequences, the high rate of alcohol abuse in college is an important public health concern. We currently do not know the extent to which alcohol abuse during college is associated with subsequent adult alcohol abuse or with experiencing the long-term health and social consequences typically associated with alcohol abuse. Further, we do not know whether alcohol abuse during college is more or less detrimental than alcohol use among college-age young adults who do not attend college. To fully understand the importance and long-term consequences of drinking during college it is essential to place college drinking within the more general context of drinking both in and outside of college during the college-age years. If patterns of lifetime alcohol use are established during the college-age years, then it is important to examine college-age drinking in general, and determine whether college drinking is especially relevant for subsequent patterns of alcohol use and for experiencing the long-term effects of college-age drinking. There is also insufficient information about the risk factors associated with college and college-age drinking, and whether the college experience exacerbates their influence on alcohol abuse. The proposed research will examine longitudinally from high school to college-age to midlife the evolution and health and social consequences of college and college-age drinking using non-drinkers and individuals who do not attend college as comparison groups. The analytic approach we propose to use permits us to control for unobserved differences among these groups and college drinkers that may bias the estimated effects of college and college-age drinking.

描述（由申请人提供）：尽管实施了各种政策和计划，旨在减少大学校园中的年龄不足和过度饮酒，但大学生的酗酒仍然是一个严重的问题。最近的数据表明，上个月使用酒精的18至22岁的年轻人中有62％的年轻人报告了上个月的酒精饮酒，而16％的年轻人报告了上个月大量使用酒精。这些针对大学生的数字高于那些不上大学的同龄同龄人，并且在过去的二十年中一直保持稳定。鉴于酗酒可能会带来严重的健康和社会后果，因此在大学中，酗酒率高是一个重要的公共卫生问题。我们目前不知道大学期间的酗酒与随后的成人酗酒或经历通常与酒精滥用有关的长期健康和社会后果有关的程度。此外，我们不知道大学期间的酗酒是否比不上大学的大学年龄成年人中的饮酒有害。要充分了解大学期间饮酒的重要性和长期后果，必须将大学饮酒置于大学时代的大学内外饮酒的更一般情况下。如果在大学时代建立了终生饮酒的模式，那么一般检查大学时代的饮酒非常重要，并确定大学饮酒是否与随后的酒精使用方式特别相关，并体验大学时代饮酒的长期影响。关于与大学和大学时代饮酒相关的危险因素的信息也不足，以及大学的经历是否加剧了他们对酒精滥用的影响。拟议的研究将使用非饮酒者和不作为比较小组上大学的非饮酒者和个人进行纵向研究，从高中到大学生到中年的大学生和大学时代的饮酒的演变，健康和社会后果。我们建议使用的分析方法允许我们控制这些群体和大学饮酒者之间未观察到的差异，这可能会偏向大学和大学时代饮酒的估计影响。