Evaluation of AlcoholEdu: A Randomized Multi-Campus Study

酒精教育的评估：随机多校区研究

基本信息

批准号：
7883176
负责人：
MALLIE J PASCHALL
金额：
$ 46万
依托单位：
PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RES AND EVALUATION
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2007
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2007-09-30 至 2012-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7883176
关键词：
Address Administrator Advisory Committees Alcohol consumption AlcoholEdu Behavioral Belief Cognitive Cross-Sectional Studies Data Effectiveness Evaluation Experimental Designs Feedback Health behavior Heavy Drinking Hour Individual Injury Intervention Mediating National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Online Systems Outcome Population Prevention program Prevention strategy Psychosocial Factor Randomized Randomized Controlled Trials Recording of previous events Reporting Research Research Personnel Research Priority Risk Sampling Students Surveys alcohol expectancy alcohol misuse alcohol prevention alcohol-related death base brief intervention college college drinking design drinking falls hazardous drinking prevent programs public health research research study skills training social social cognitive theory theories universal prevention university student

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Colleges need effective universal prevention strategies to reach the substantial number of students who may be at risk for alcohol misuse and related harm. To address this need, Outside The Classroom developed a 2- 3 hour online course known as AlcoholEdu for college freshmen. Approximately 140 colleges are now mandating AlcoholEdu for their incoming freshmen despite the lack of research on its effectiveness. AlcoholEdu incorporates features of effective (Tier 1) intervention strategies recommended by the NIAAA Task Force on College Drinking. The proposed study will be the first to use a multi-campus experimental design to determine whether AlcoholEdu has beneficial and sustained effects on alcohol use and related harm among freshmen classes. We are proposing a randomized controlled study that will include 30 colleges. Fifteen of the colleges will be randomly assigned to implement AlcoholEdu for two consecutive freshmen classes in Fall 2008 and Fall 2009. Colleges that serve as controls in the 2008-09 academic year will also implement AlcoholEdu in the fall of 2009. Repeated cross-sectional surveys of freshmen classes in fall and spring semesters and two surveys of sophomore classes will allow us to examine both short-term and sustained AlcoholEdu effects. The specific aims of this study are: (1) To determine whether and to what extent AlcoholEdu reduces both immediate and longer-term alcohol misuse and related problems in the freshmen student population; (2) To determine if any observed effects of AlcEdu on alcohol misuse and related problems in the freshman student population are stronger if the program was also administered to the prior class of freshmen in the previous year; and (3) To assess the mediating effects on alcohol misuse and related problems of student-level psychosocial factors (e.g., normative beliefs, alcohol expectancies) targeted by AlcoholEdu. Mediating effects of sophomore class levels of alcohol use and related problems also will be examined for the 2009-10 freshmen class. Secondary aims of the study are to examine possible differences in AlcoholEdu's effects for colleges with (a) relatively high vs. low levels of student participation in the program, and (b) relatively high vs. low rates of baseline heavy alcohol use among incoming freshmen classes. We will also examine the possible combined effects of AlcoholEdu and other campus-wide prevention programs (e.g., social norming campaign) if there are enough colleges implementing AlcoholEdu with other campus-wide programs. Findings of this study will be of theoretical importance as no prior experimental studies have examined population-level effects of a web-based prevention program for college students that is based on social-cognitive theories of health behavior at the individual level. This study will also help college practitioners and administrators make an informed decision about whether to include AlcoholEdu as part of a comprehensive alcohol misuse and harm prevention strategy.

描述（由申请人提供）：大学需要有效的通用预防策略，以达到可能有滥用酒精和相关伤害风险的大量学生。为了满足这一需求，教室外开发了2至3小时的在线课程，称为大学新生。尽管缺乏对其有效性的研究，但大约有140所大学正在为他们的新生要求酗酒。 NIAAA特遣队针对大学饮酒推荐的有效（第1层）干预策略的特征（第1层）。拟议的研究将是第一个使用多校园实验设计的研究，以确定醇对新生类别中的酒精使用和相关危害是否有益和持续影响。我们提出了一项随机对照研究，其中将包括30所大学。 Fifteen of the colleges will be randomly assigned to implement AlcoholEdu for two consecutive freshmen classes in Fall 2008 and Fall 2009. Colleges that serve as controls in the 2008-09 academic year will also implement AlcoholEdu in the fall of 2009. Repeated cross-sectional surveys of freshmen classes in fall and spring semesters and two surveys of sophomore classes will allow us to examine both short-term and sustained AlcoholEdu effects.这项研究的具体目的是：（1）确定饮酒是否会减少新生学生人口中的直接和长期酗酒以及相关问题；（2）确定如果在上一年还向以前的新生级给予该计划，那么如果该计划也对新生的学生群体中的滥用酗酒和相关问题，是否有任何观察到的对酗酒和相关问题的影响；（3）评估对酒精滥用的介导影响以及学生水平的社会心理因素（例如，规范性信念，酒精预期）的相关问题。还将检查2009 - 10年新生课程的大二班级饮酒和相关问题的中介作用。该研究的次要目的是检查酒精饮料对（a）相对较高与学生参与程度低的大学的影响，以及（b）在即将到来的新生班级中，基线大量饮酒的比率相对较高。如果有足够的大学与其他校园范围的计划实施酗酒的大学，我们还将研究酒精和其他校园预防计划（例如社会规范运动）的可能综合影响。这项研究的结果将具有理论上的重要性，因为先前的实验研究没有研究基于网络的预防计划对大学生的人群级别的影响，该计划基于个人层面上健康行为的社会认知理论。这项研究还将帮助大学从业人员和管理人员做出明智的决定，即是否将酒精作为综合滥用酒精和预防危害策略的一部分。