A Longitudinal Social Network Analysis and Intervention for Drinking and Health

饮酒与健康的纵向社交网络分析和干预

• 批准号: 9142039
• 负责人: Heather Krieger
• 金额: $ 3.41万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9142039
• 关键词: Accounting; Achievement; Address; Administrator; Affect; Age; Alcohol abuse; Alcohol consumption; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Alcoholic beverage heavy drinker; Alcoholism; Alcohols; Attitude; Award; Behavior; Behavioral; Benefits and Risks; Characteristics; Complex; Data; Data Analyses; Development; Education; Effectiveness; Emotional; Ethics; Etiology; Foundations; Friends; Friendships; Future; Gender; Goals; Graph; Greek; Health; Heavy Drinking; Individual; Institutes; Intervention; Knowledge; Length; Life; Literature; Location; Longitudinal Studies; Methodology; Mission; Modeling; Outcome; Participant; Pathway Analysis; Perception; Policy Maker; Population; Positioning Attribute; Prevention; Prevention approach; Prevention strategy; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Proposals; Research Technics; Sampling; Social Network; Strategic Planning; Structure; Students; Subgroup; Surveys; Testing; Time; Training; Transference; Universities; Variant; Work; Writing; alcohol consequences; alcohol intervention; behavior influence; behavioral outcome; college; college drinking; density; design; drinking; drinking behavior; experience; high risk; high school; improved; innovation; insight; junior high school; member; network models; peer; peer influence; public health relevance; social; social norm; statistics; student drinking; theories; treatment program; university student; young adult

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is a wide range of negative consequences, which can occur as a result of college drinking. These consequences have been found to be associated with higher alcohol consumption and stronger positive peer and personal attitudes towards drinking especially in members of Greek Life Organizations. While the consequences of problematic drinking and their associations with normative peer behaviors and attitudes have been widely studied, less is known about how direct peer influences may differentially affect individual behaviors and experiences of consequences. This research proposal is focused on addressing this gap by the examination of individual and organizational networks of students at high risk for hazardous alcohol consumption. It will examine the relationships between network characteristics and individuals' alcohol consumption, attitudes, and experiences of alcohol problems. This will be achieved by applying the use of Social Network Analysis to assess the relationships between individual characteristics and behaviors and organizational network characteristics. A sample of eight Greek Life Organizations will be recruited from a large diverse public university. Participants will be asked to complete an online survey assessing their attitudes, behaviors, and experienced consequences of drinking. Additionally participants will provide information about their closest friends and relationships with the other members of their chapter and the strength of these associations. This affiliative information allows the research team to construct organization networks designed to examine the distribution of drinking behaviors, attitudes, and problems. Data analysis will examine the network characteristics associated with drinking behaviors and consequences and the impact of changes in those characteristics over time. Two additional assessments will be conducted with each Greek Life organization over the course of 12 months. Findings from this study will be used the help design targeted interventions which account for the impact of social network factors. By adapting existing interventions we hope to improve their effectiveness and efficacy in this population. This proposed research project supports the mission of the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) as it focuses on enhancing the understanding of peer influences on alcohol consumption and network influence on experiences of health risks and benefits associated with alcohol consumption. The completion of this work will augment NIAAA missions to understand the outcomes of alcohol consumption, and enhance knowledge used to create effective prevention, and treatment programs. The findings of this project will be presented and disseminated to researchers, education administrators, students, policy makers, and the public, as is in line with the strategic planning goals of NIAAA. In conclusion, the award and completion of this project will afford substantial training in ethics, methodologies, statistics, and writing,to a promising young researcher and will address the significant need for innovative research on social network analysis, alcohol consumption, and interventions.

 描述（由申请人提供）：大学饮酒可能会产生多种负面后果，这些后果被发现与较高的饮酒量以及对饮酒的更积极的同伴和个人态度有关，尤其是在会员中。虽然有问题的饮酒的后果及其与规范同伴行为和态度的关系已得到广泛研究，但人们对同伴的直接影响如何对个人行为和后果体验产生不同的影响知之甚少。通过检查个人和组织网络来弥补这一差距它将研究网络特征与个人饮酒、态度和酒精问题经历之间的关系。这将通过应用社交网络分析来评估个人之间的关系来实现。将从一所大型多元化公立大学招募八个希腊生活组织的样本，参与者将被要求完成一项在线调查，评估他们的态度、行为以及参与者所经历的后果。有关他们最亲密的朋友以及与分会其他成员的关系以及实力的信息这些关联信息使研究团队能够构建旨在检查饮酒行为、态度和问题的分布的组织网络。数据分析将检查与饮酒行为和后果相关的网络特征以及这些特征变化的影响。随着时间的推移，每个 Greek Life 组织将在 12 个月内进行两次额外的评估，我们希望通过调整现有的干预措施来帮助设计有针对性的干预措施。提高其在该人群中的有效性和功效。 拟议的研究项目支持国家酒精滥用和酒精中毒研究所 (NIAAA) 的使命，因为它的重点是加强对同伴对酒精消费的影响以及网络对与酒精消费相关的健康风险和益处的影响的了解。这项工作将增强 NIAAA 的使命，了解饮酒的后果，并增强用于制定有效预防和治疗计划的知识。该项目的研究结果将向研究人员、教育管理人员、学生、政策制定者和公众展示和传播。 ，符合战略规划总之，该项目的获奖和完成将为有前途的年轻研究人员提供伦理学、方法论、统计和写作方面的大量培训，并将满足社交网络分析、酒精消费、和干预措施。