Alcohol Research Collaborative: Retail Alcohol Outlets

描述（由申请人提供）：在大学生中观察到的饮酒和相关问题的极端水平每隔几年就会被“重新发现”，最近的一次是在NIAAA大学饮酒特别工作组的报告“行动呼吁：改变美国大学的饮酒文化”（2002年4月）中。然而，尽管如此，在这一重要的年轻人群体中，预防饮酒问题的进展甚微。 然而，工作队的报告在经验研究的基础上确定了建议的战略，因此对重新调整预防工作具有潜在的重大影响。这些建议包括预防重点放在获得许可销售酒精饮料（内部和外部）的企业。在拟议的研究中，我们计划采取我们和其他人的社区预防干预措施所获得的经验，以评估基于社区的干预措施的影响，该干预措施将与持牌网点合作，以1）减少未成年人的酒精供应，2）减少对任何明显醉酒的人的服务，因此有可能对自己或他人造成伤害。 该项目将涉及四个假设的校园（将作为合作协议协议的一部分命名），以了解特许经销商的风险管理策略如何减少学生中与酒精有关的问题。然后，这四个校区将与正在进行的研究的比较地点收集的平行数据（来自学生调查和获得档案数据）进行比较。 与基线和整个比较校园相比，这种准实验设计将允许评估该计划对醉酒频率、酗酒和负面后果发生率的影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The extreme levels of drinking and associated problems observed among college students are "rediscovered" every few years, most recently in the report of the NIAAA Task Force on College Drinking report "A Call to Action: Changing the Culture of Drinking at U.S. Colleges" (April 2002). Yet, despite this, little progress has been made toward preventing drinking problems within this important group of young people. The Task Force report, however, represents a potential major influence to reshape prevention efforts by virtue of its identifying recommended strategies on the basis of empirical research. Those recommendations include prevention focused on businesses that are licensed to sell alcoholic beverages (on and off-premise). In the proposed study we plan to take the experiences gained by our and others' community prevention interventions to evaluate the impact of a community-based intervention that would work with licensed outlets to 1) reduce the availability of alcohol to minors and 2) reduce service to anyone who is obviously intoxicated and therefore at risk of causing harm to themselves or others. The project would involve four hypothetical campuses (to be named as part of the cooperative agreement protocols) in an effort to understand how risk-management strategies in licensed outlets may work to reduce alcohol-related problems among students. These four campuses would then be compared to parallel data (from student surveys and obtaining archival data) being collected in comparison sites for an ongoing study. This quasi-experimental design will permit an evaluation of the program's impact on the frequency of intoxication, binge drinking, and prevalence of negative consequences as compared to the baseline and across the comparison campus.