EARLY INTERVENTION TO PREVENT STUDENT BINGE DRINKING

本研究将开发和评估一种干预策略，旨在减少学生在大学一年级期间酗酒的发生和程度。所采取的方法相对新颖，因为干预的重点是通过父母，在高中毕业到大学开始的关键时期影响学生在进入大学之前的酗酒行为。目前在酗酒领域的几乎所有方法都是基于在学生在大学期间实施干预。相比之下，目前的方法试图在学生进入大学之前接触到他们，以使他们更能抵抗鼓励采用或继续狂饮行为的影响。具体地说，我们打算教育父母关于酗酒的问题，并鼓励他们在青少年开始大学教育之前与他们的青少年谈论这些问题。过去的研究已经确定了我们认为父母可以传达给孩子的信息和观点，这些信息和观点最终将减少大学里的酗酒。因此，这项研究将开发一种干预措施，教父母如何在十几岁的儿子和女儿进入大学之前向他们传达关于酗酒的信息，以减少大学期间酗酒的发生；评估干预的效果；并确定干预似乎相对成功的父母和学生与干预相对无效的父母和学生的人口统计学和心理特征。

The present research will develop and evaluate an intervention strategy designed to reduce the onset and extent of binge drinking in students during their first year of college. The approach taken is relatively novel in that the focus of the intervention is on influencing binge drinking behavior of the students before they come to college, through their parents, during the critical time between high school graduation and the beginning of college. Almost all current approaches in the binge drinking domain are based on implementing an intervention while the students are at college. By contrast, the present approach attempts to reach students just before they come to college, so as to make them more resistant to influences that encourage the adoption or continuation of binge drinking behaviors. Specifically, we intend to educate parents about the problem of binge drinking and to encourage them to talk with their teen about these issues just before the teen embarks on his or her college education. Past research of has identified information and perspectives that we believe parents can convey to their children that will ultimately reduce college binge drinking. Thus, the research will develop an intervention to teach parents how to convey information about binge drinking to their teenage sons and daughters just prior to their entering college that will reduce the onset of binge drinking in college; Evaluate the efficacy of the intervention; and Identify demographic and psychological profiles of parents and students for whom the intervention seems to be relatively successful versus those for whom the intervention is relatively ineffective.