An Incentive Approach to Reduce Alcohol Abuse At Parties

减少聚会上酗酒的激励方法

基本信息

批准号：
6660837
负责人：
E SCOTT GELLER
金额：
$ 25.59万
依托单位：
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV
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：
2002-09-20 至 2005-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6660837
关键词：
alcoholic beverage consumption alcoholism /alcohol abuse prevention behavior modification behavioral /social science research tag clinical research drug detection human subject human therapy evaluation reinforcer social behavior university student

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This two-year research proposal continues our attempts for over a decade to reduce alcohol abuse among university students. We have tested a variety of theory-driven interventions, including a) educating students about their overestimation of peer drinking norms, b) teaching server intervention to the hosts of fraternity parties, c) providing BAC feedback in party settings, d) manning booths at fraternity parties to illustrate negative consequences of excessive alcohol consumption, and e) teaching partygoers simple performance games they can use on themselves and others to estimate whether they are too impaired to drive. Although some of these interventions influenced a significant reduction in self-reported alcohol consumption and concomitant negative outcomes, none influenced a significant reduction in actual blood alcohol concentration (BAC) at parties. The proposed research takes a completely different and straightforward approach to reducing excessive alcohol consumption at fraternity parties. Our pilot testing of this approach, based on theories of reinforcement and controlled drinking, showed remarkable effects. Specifically, the incentive/reward technique we propose to test comprehensively reduced mean BAC at two fraternity parties significantly to .063 (n=86) and .056 (n=91), respectively from baseline means of .092 (n=96) and .102 (n=83) at two prior parties held by the same fraternity. Moreover, the incentive/reward intervention reduced the number of partygoers who were legally drunk (BAC equal to or greater than .08) from 52 (54.2 percent) and 52(62.7 percent) at the two baseline parties to 26 (30.2 percent) and 20 (22 percent) at the two intervention parties. The incentive/reward intervention simply enabled partygoers to enter a $100 cash raffle if his or her BAC, measured between the hours of 11:30pm and 12:30am, was below .05. Pretest-posttest group randomized trial methodology (Murray, 1998) is proposed to demonstrate that a particular intervention package will be effective across a number of randomly selected fraternities. The proposed research also evaluates whether repeated exposures to parties with an incentive/reward contingency to hold BAC below .05 can change social norms with regard to party drinking and lead to long-term maintenance of lowered intoxication at fraternity parties.

描述（由申请人提供）：这项为期两年的研究计划继续我们尝试减少大学生中酗酒的尝试。我们已经测试了各种理论驱动的干预措施，包括a）教育学生高估他们对同伴饮酒规范的高估，b）向兄弟会的主持人教服务服务器干预，c）在派对环境中提供BAC反馈，d）d）在兄弟政党说明过度饮酒的负面后果，以及e）教会派对者的简单表演游戏，他们可以在自己和他人身上使用，以估计他们是否太受损而无法驾驶。尽管其中一些干预措施影响了自我报告的酒精消耗和随之而来的负面结果的显着降低，但没有人影响当事方实际血液酒精浓度（BAC）的显着降低。拟议的研究采取了完全不同且直接的方法来减少博爱各方的过度饮酒。根据加强和受控饮酒理论，我们对这种方法的试点测试表现出了显着影响。具体而言，我们提议的激励/奖励技术分别从基线平均值（n = 96）（n = 96）和.092（n = 96）和.102（n = 83）在同一博爱举行的两个先前的各方。此外，激励/奖励干预措施将法律醉酒（BAC等于或大于0.08）的聚会者的数量从两个基线派对的52（54.2％）和52（62.7％）减少到26（30.2％）和26（30.2％）和在两个干预各方的20（22％）。激励/奖励干预只是使参与者的派对者能够进入100美元的现金抽奖活动，如果他或她的BAC（在11:30 pm和12:30 AM之间）的BAC低于.05。提出了预测试组随机试验方法（Murray，1998），以证明特定的干预套件将在许多随机选择的兄弟会中有效。拟议的研究还评估了是否反复向各方进行激励/奖励应急情况，以使BAC保持在.05以下。05是否可以改变有关政党饮酒的社会规范，并导致在兄弟会各方的降低中毒的长期维持。