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）：尽管实施了各种旨在减少大学校园内未成年人和过度饮酒的政策和计划，但大学生酗酒仍然是一个严重的问题。最近的数据显示，在大学就读的 18 至 22 岁年轻人中，62% 的人表示在过去一个月内曾饮酒，41% 的人表示在过去一个月内曾酗酒，16% 的人表示在过去一个月内曾大量饮酒。大学生的这些数字高于未上大学的同龄同龄人，并且在过去二十年中保持相当稳定。鉴于酗酒可能造成严重的健康和社会后果，大学中的高酗酒率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酗酒相关的长期健康和社会后果有多大关系。此外，我们不知道大学期间酗酒是否比未上大学的大学年龄年轻人的饮酒危害更大或更小。为了充分了解大学期间饮酒的重要性和长期后果，有必要将大学饮酒置于大学期间在大学内外饮酒的更普遍背景下。如果在大学年龄期间建立了终生饮酒模式，那么重要的是要检查大学年龄饮酒的总体情况，并确定大学饮酒是否与随后的饮酒模式和经历长期影响特别相关大学年龄饮酒。关于与大学和大学年龄饮酒相关的风险因素，以及大学经历是否加剧了其对酗酒的影响，也没有足够的信息。拟议的研究将纵向研究从高中到大学年龄再到中年的大学和大学年龄饮酒的演变以及健康和社会后果，使用不饮酒者和没有上大学的个人作为对照组。我们建议使用的分析方法使我们能够控制这些群体和大学饮酒者之间未观察到的差异，这些差异可能会影响大学和大学年龄饮酒的估计影响。