Recognition and Referral Skills for RAs - Alcohol-Drug Problems

RA 的识别和推荐技巧 - 酒精药物问题

• 批准号: 8316424
• 负责人: Doug Olson
• 金额: $ 27.79万
• 依托单位: PHASE 5, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-30 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8316424
• 关键词: Alcohol abuse; Alcohols; American; Americas; Attitude; Behavior; Behavior Control; Behavioral; Caring; Communities; Data Analyses; Development; Drug abuse; Educational process of instructing; Effectiveness; Evaluation; Feedback; Goals; Housing; Institution; Intervention; Leadership; Learning; Life; Link; Long-Term Care; Measures; Mental Health; Online Systems; Outcome; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Phase; Planning Theory; Population; Randomized; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Project Grants; Resources; Schedule; Services; Site; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Small Business Technology Transfer Research; Solutions; Students; Supervision; Testing; Training; Training Programs; Universities; Violence; alcohol and other drug; cohort; college; comparative effectiveness; design; follow-up; instrument; member; programs; public health relevance; residence; skills; theories; university student; usability; vandalism

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Resident assistants (RAs) are often the first staff members at a college or university to learn that a student is engaged in alcohol or other drug abuse. This Phase II STTR application seeks support to further develop and test a web-based program called "RA Resources (RAR) - Alcohol-Drug Problems." Phase 5, Inc. will conduct this theory-driven research project designed to strengthen RAs' ability to effectively approach, refer, and follow-up with residential college students who may have alcohol or other drug problems. The RAR - Alcohol-Drug Problems training program will have interactive features that emphasize teaching positive, respectful ways to link resident students who may have an alcohol or other drug problem with appropriate professional services. The goal of Phase II research is to complete development and evaluate the effectiveness of two versions of the training program. One version will focus exclusively on training RAs. A second version will include additional features to train their immediate supervisors, i.e., residence hall directors (or RHDs), to supervise RAs on mental health issues. These two RAR versions and a control condition will be tested in a randomized field trial involving 90 RA staffs from 30 college and university campuses. The study will test the following hypotheses: (1) compared to controls, RA participation in either training program will significantly increase scores on measures derived from the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB); (2) RAs in the RAR-RHD Alcohol-Drug Problems training program will have significantly greater scores on TPB measures compared to those in the RAR only (no RHD supervision component); (3) resident students with RAs in either of the RAR training program will have greater scores on measures of RA support and respect for RA leadership, compared to those residents with RAs in the control condition. The proposed research offers a solution to the problems associated with inadequate training of RAs on alcohol and other drug issues. The research is significant because it seeks to strengthen and extend campus networks of care by linking students with alcohol or other drug problems to treatment services in a more effective and timely manner. The approach may be an effective means of extending care to students in need as well as to reduce campus problems associated with alcohol and drug abuse, including academic problems, vandalism, and violence. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The development of an online alcohol-drug training program for college resident assistants (RAs) represents a significant commercial opportunity and one that could produce important societal benefits. We are not aware of any web-based application that provides training for RAs to recognize and refer residence hall students who may have alcohol and other drug problems. Although alcohol and drug problems are prevalent in the undergraduate population, the current state of RA training on these issues is inconsistent across America's campuses and at many institutions is woefully inadequate.

描述（由申请人提供）：居民助理（RAS）通常是大学或大学的第一批工作人员，他们知道学生从事酒精或其他药物滥用。此II阶段的STTR应用程序寻求支持，以进一步开发和测试一个名为“ RA Resources（RAR） - 酒精 - 酒精问题”的基于网络的程序。第5阶段，Inc。将进行该理论驱动的研究项目，旨在增强RAS有效接近，参考可能患有酒精或其他药物问题的住宅大学生的能力。 RAR-酒精问题培训计划将具有互动功能，强调教授积极，尊重的方式，将可能有酒精或其他药物问题与适当专业服务的居民学生联系起来。第二阶段研究的目的是完成开发并评估两个版本的培训计划的有效性。一个版本将专注于培训RAS。第二版将包括其他功能，以培训其直接主管，即宿舍导演（或RHD），以监督RAS关于心理健康问题的监督。这两个RAR版本和控制条件将在一项随机现场试验中进行测试，其中涉及来自30个大学和大学校园的90名RA员工。该研究将检验以下假设：（1）与对照组相比，RA参与任一培训计划将显着提高根据计划行为理论（TPB）得出的措施得分； （2）与仅RAR中的RAR-RHD酒精毒品问题培训计划中的RAS在TPB措施上的分数将明显更高（没有RHD监督部分）； （3）与在控制条件下具有RAS的居民相比，在RAR培训计划中，有RAS的居民将在RA支持和RA领导力的尊重方面的分数更高。拟议的研究提供了解决与酒精和其他药物问题培训不足的问题有关的问题。这项研究很重要，因为它试图通过将酒精或其他药物问题与治疗服务联系起来，以更有效，及时的方式将校园护理网络加强。该方法可能是向有需要的学生扩展护理的有效手段，并减少与酗酒和滥用药物有关的校园问题，包括学术问题，故意破坏和暴力。 公共卫生相关性：针对大学居民助理（RAS）的在线酒精饮酒培训计划的制定代表了一个重要的商业机会，可以产生重要的社会利益。我们不知道有任何基于Web的应用程序，可以为RAS提供培训，以识别并推荐可能患有酒精和其他毒品问题的宿舍学生。尽管在本科人口中，酒精和药物问​​题普遍存在，但在美国校园中，关于这些问题的RA培训的现状是不一致的，在许多机构中，这是不足的。

项目成果

Attitudes associated with alcohol and marijuana referral actions by resident assistants.

住院助理对酒精和大麻转介行为的态度。

• DOI: 10.1007/s10935-014-0371-2
• 发表时间: 2014
• 期刊: The journal of primary prevention
• 作者: Thombs,DennisL;Osborn,CynthiaJ;Rossheim,MatthewE;Suzuki,Sumihiro
• 通讯作者: Suzuki,Sumihiro

Resident assistant training program for increasing alcohol, other drug, and mental health first-aid efforts.

• DOI: 10.1007/s11121-014-0515-x
• 发表时间: 2015-05
• 期刊: PREVENTION SCIENCE
• 影响因子: 3.5
• 作者: Thombs, Dennis L.;Gonzalez, Jennifer M. Reingle;Osborn, Cynthia J.;Rossheim, Matthew E.;Suzuki, Sumihiro
• 通讯作者: Suzuki, Sumihiro