Interventions for At-Risk College Drinkers

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请要求支持Kate Carey博士获得独立科学家奖（K02），并描述申请人的研究和职业发展计划。凯里博士的职业目标是：(a)开发、实施和评估对大学饮酒发展环境敏感的高风险饮酒大学生的动机干预措施；(b)改进必要的数据分析技能，以便进行最新的纵向研究，并评价与干预有关的变化的机制和相关因素；(c)指导初级同事制定和评估基于酒精滥用的预防干预措施。该研究计划包括两项目前资助的研究和一项计划中的研究，旨在评估短暂动机干预（bmi）对大学饮酒者的效果。研究1招募了高危饮酒者，并将基本BMI与通过决策平衡锻炼增强的BMI与仅评估对照进行比较；参与者提供基线、干预后、1个月、6个月和12个月随访的评估数据。研究2招募了一些学生，他们因为酗酒而被强制进行干预

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests support for an Independent Scientist Award (K02) for Kate Carey, PhD, and describes the applicant's research and career development plans. Dr. Carey's career goals are: (a) to develop, implement, and evaluate motivational interventions for risky drinking college students that are sensitive to the developmental context of college drinking; (b) to refine data analytic skills necessary to conduct state-of-the science longitudinal studies and to evaluate mechanisms and correlates of intervention related change; and (c) to mentor junior colleagues in the development and evaluation of alcohol abuse based prevention interventions. The research plan includes two currently funded and one planned study that evaluate the efficacy of brief motivational interventions (BMIs) in college drinkers. Study 1 recruits at-risk drinkers and compares a basic BMI to a BMI enhanced with a decisional balance exercise to an assessment-only control; participants provide assessment data at baseline, post-intervention, 1-, 6-, and 12- month follow-ups. Study 2 recruits students who are mandated to an intervention because of alcohol violations of school policy; in this study, the basic BMI is compared to a CD-ROM alcohol education program, with the same assessment schedule being used in Study 1. Study 3 will recruit students who have violated residence hall alcohol policies, and will compare the basic BMI with the CD-ROM educational tool. For all three studies, hypotheses regarding mediators and moderators of intervention effects will be evaluated. These and future research projects form a program of research that will test the efficacy of BMIs for selective and indicated prevention, and clarify the mechanisms through which they work. The proposed award would allow the applicant protected time to expand her alcohol interventions research, to acquire new and strengthen existing scientific skills, to collaborate with other senior scientists, and to provide research training to junior scientists.