Female Anti-Problem Drinking Group & Campus Initiatives

描述（由申请人提供）：2004年2月初，洛约拉玛丽蒙特大学（Loyola Marymount University）发生了一起涉及女子曲棍球队的近乎灾难性的欺辱事件。校园迅速行动起来，解决了令人不安的酒精中毒趋势和女性饮酒问题。目前的项目“WISE UP”旨在帮助面临饮酒负面影响风险的女性，同时通过一系列举措提高人们的意识，改善校园生活。WISE UP的核心是一个2期同伴引导的动机增强小组干预，试图灌输负责任的饮酒习惯。该干预措施采用了当前的研究，使用了动机性访谈和焦点小组技术，以及饮酒的性别原因和女性对讨论导向、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情况的评估，然后讨论减少饮酒的利弊、饮酒的原因和预期，以及针对性别的与酒精有关的健康问题。参与者通过3个月的日常日记监测饮酒和与饮酒有关的事件，并接受强化课程。接受酒精中毒治疗的妇女和接受与酒精有关的制裁的妇女也将参加单独的“提醒司法罪犯”小组。小组干预措施嵌套在一系列倡议中，包括LMU校长、EMT陪同、校园海报活动、利用在线技术与校园组织合作的小组规范项目、每月与教职员工合作的酒精相关项目，以及正在进行的针对学生的酒精和女性健康项目。据推测，参加WISE UP小组的学生将报告更少的酒精相关问题，减少酒精中毒的发生率，降低司法制裁和再犯。校园意识将会增强，校园文化将会改变。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.