Development of a Measure to Assess Protective Behavioral Strategies for Pregaming among Young Adults.
Development of a Measure to Assess Protective Behavioral Strategies for Pregaming among Young Adults.
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制定评估年轻人游戏前保护行为策略的措施。
DOI：
10.1080/10826084.2019.1686025
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发表时间：
2020
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2
通讯作者：
Clapp,JohnD
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作者：
Pedersen,EricR;Davis,JordanP;Hummer,JustinF;DiGuiseppi,Graham;Sedano,Angeles;Rodriguez,Anthony;Clapp,JohnD
尽管大多数年轻人饮酒，但有特定的饮酒环境与酒精相关后果的风险增加有关。一个这样的饮酒背景是游戏前，这通常涉及在短时间内大量饮酒，并且一直与游戏前事件本身、游戏前事件后的晚上以及长期的后果有关。需要专门针对这种危险行为的干预努力，但这些努力需要通过实证工作来更好地了解年轻人参与的行为可以保护他们免受与怀孕相关的伤害。方法我们对363名在过去一年中从事游戏前活动的年轻成人大学生进行了项目池测试，并进行了探索性因素分析，以开发一个19-item睡前保护性行为策略（PBSP）量表，其特征为安全和熟悉、设定饮酒限制、起搏策略和最小化中毒4个分量表。结论PBSP量表的心理测量学特性的初步探索性检查表明，在游戏前事件中专门使用的保护性行为策略可能会保护年轻人从酗酒和危害。鼓励对PBSP量表进行更多的研究，以确定其作为年轻人临床和评估工具的实用性。
BackgroundAlthough most young adults drink alcohol, there are specific drinking contexts that are associated with increased risk for alcohol-related consequences. One such drinking context is pregaming, which typically involves heavy drinking in brief periods of time and has consistently been linked to consequences within the pregaming event itself, on a night after pregaming, and in the long-term. Intervention efforts that specifically target this risky behavior are needed, but these efforts need to be informed by empirical work to better understand what behaviors young people engage in that can protect them from pregaming-related harms.PurposeWe designed this study to create a measure of protective behavioral strategies that young people use before, during, and after pregaming to inform future intervention work.MethodsWe tested an item pool with 363 young adult college students who engaged in pregaming in the past year and conducted exploratory factor analysis to develop a 19-item Protective Behavioral Strategies for Pregaming (PBSP) scale, which featured four subscales of safety and familiarity, setting drink limits, pacing strategies, and minimizing intoxication.ResultsEach subscale negatively and significantly correlated with measures of alcohol use and consequences, though subscales differed in their associations with specific pregaming outcomes and by sex.ConclusionThis initial exploratory examination of the PBSP scale's psychometric properties suggests that use of protective behavioral strategies used specifically during pregaming events may protect young people from heavy drinking and harms. More research with the PBSP scale is encouraged to determine its practical utility as a clinical and assessment tool with young people.