Female Anti-Problem Drinking Group & Campus Initiatives

描述(申请人提供)：2004年2月初，洛约拉·马里蒙特大学意识到一起几乎灾难性的欺凌事件，涉及女子曲棍球队。校园迅速启动，以解决令人担忧的酒精中毒和女性饮酒问题的趋势。目前的项目名为Wise Up，旨在干预因饮酒而产生负面后果的女性，同时通过一系列嵌套的倡议提高认识并改善校园生活。WISE UP的核心是一个由同龄人领导的为期两次的激励增强小组干预，试图向新生和女性灌输负责任的饮酒习惯。这项干预使用了当前的研究，使用了激励性访谈和焦点小组技术，以及饮酒的特定性别原因，以及女性对以讨论为导向、非威胁性和同伴主导的干预措施的不同反应。小组包括对过去饮酒的评估，然后讨论减少饮酒的利弊，饮酒的原因和预期，以及与性别相关的酒精相关健康问题。参与者在3个月的时间里通过日常日记监测饮酒和与饮酒有关的事件，并接受强化治疗。接受酒精中毒治疗的女性和接受酒精相关处罚的女性也将参加单独的明智司法罪犯小组。小组干预包括一系列倡议，包括LMU校长、EMT顺风车、校园海报活动、与校园组织利用在线技术的小组规范计划、与教职员工每月举行的与酒精相关的计划，以及正在进行的针对学生的酒精和女性健康计划。据假设，参加明智小组的学生将报告较少的与酒精有关的问题，减少酒精中毒的发生率，降低司法制裁和累犯率。校园意识将增强，校园文化将发生变化。包括评估/分析计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In early February, 2004, Loyola Marymount University awakened to a nearly disastrous hazing incident involving the women's lacrosse team. The campus galvanized quickly to address the troubling trend of alcohol poisoning and problem drinking among women. The current project, WISE UP, intervenes with women at risk for negative consequences resulting from drinking while, at the same time, raising awareness and improving campus life through a nested series of initiatives. At the core of WISE UP is a 2-session peer led motivational enhancement group intervention with freshmen women that attempts to instill responsible drinking habits. The intervention employs current research, using Motivational Interviewing and focus group technology, as well as gender-specific reasons for drinking and women's differential response to discussion-oriented, non-threatening, and peer-led interventions. Groups include assessment of past drinking followed by discussion of pros and cons for reducing drinking, reasons for drinking and expectancies, and gender-specific alcohol-related health issues. Participants monitor drinking and drinking-related incidents through daily diaries over 3 months and receive booster sessions. Women who are treated for alcohol poisoning and women receiving alcohol-related sanctions will also participate in separate WISE UP Judicial Offenders groups. The group interventions are nested in a series of initiatives that involve the President of LMU, EMT ride-alongs, an on-campus poster campaign, group norms programs with campus organizations utilizing online technology, monthly alcohol-related programs with faculty/staff, and on-going alcohol and women's health programs for students. It is hypothesized that students attending WISE UP groups will report fewer alcohol-related problems, decreased incidence of alcohol poisoning, lower judicial sanctions, and recidivism. Campus awareness will increase and campus culture will be changed. Evaluation/analysis plan is included.