Help-Seeking for Alcohol-Related Problems in College Students: Correlates and Preferred Resources
Help-Seeking for Alcohol-Related Problems in College Students: Correlates and Preferred Resources
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DOI：
10.1037/a0021122
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发表时间：
2010-12-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Skidmore, Jessica R.
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作者：
Buscemi, Joanna;Murphy, James G.;Skidmore, Jessica R.
尽管发展了各种有效的酒精干预方法的大学生，很少有学生饮酒者寻求帮助。本研究评估了学生的历史，寻求帮助的酒精问题，以及他们的估计，他们将如何使用各种寻求帮助的资源，如果他们希望改变他们的饮酒。参与者是197名大学生，他们报告最近大量饮酒（46%男性，68.5%白色，27.4%非洲裔美国人）。参与者完成了与他们的饮酒和他们使用（包括过去使用和未来使用的可能性）14种不同的酒精寻求帮助选项相关的措施。重复测量方差分析显示，学生更喜欢非正式的求助（例如，与朋友和家人交谈）超过正式场合（例如，与顾问或医疗提供者交谈）和匿名资源（例如，基于因特网或计算机的程序）。自我理想差异越大，抑郁症状越严重。更多与酒精相关的后果与过去的实际求助呈正相关。酒精相关的问题和规范的差异与假设的可能性，利用所有三个求助资源呈负相关。这些结果表明，大量饮酒的大学生更喜欢低阈值的干预方案，包括同伴。家庭、计算机化和简短的动机干预。只有36名参与者（样本的18.3%）报告说，他们利用了任何求助的查询选项，这表明校园预防工作应包括促进低门槛的干预措施，并试图增加酒精相关的风险和改变饮酒模式的潜在效用的显着性。
Despite the development of a variety of efficacious alcohol intervention approaches for college students, few student drinkers seek help. The present study assessed students' history of help-seeking for alcohol problems, as well as their estimates of how likely they would be to use various help-seeking resources, should they wish to change their drinking. Participants were 197 college students who reported recent heavy drinking (46% male, 68.5% White, 27.4% African-American). Participants completed measures related to their drinking and their use (both past use and likelihood of future use) of 14 different alcohol help-seeking options. Repeated-measures analyses of variance revealed that students preferred informal help-seeking (e.g., talking to friends and family) over formal (e.g., talking with a counselor or medical provider) and anonymous resources (e.g., internet- or computer-based programs). Higher self-ideal discrepancy, greater depressive symptoms. and more alcohol-related consequences were positively associated with actual past help-seeking. Alcohol-related problems and normative discrepancy were negatively associated with hypothetical likelihood of utilizing all three help-seeking resources. These results suggest that heavy drinking college students prefer low-threshold intervention options including peer. family, computerized, and brief motivational interventions. Only 36 participants (18.3% of the sample) reported that they had utilized any of the help-seeking options queried, suggesting that campus prevention efforts should include both promoting low-threshold interventions and attempting to increase the salience of alcohol-related risk and the potential utility of changing drinking patterns.