Alcohol Consequences and Prediction of Short-term Changes in Drinking Behavior

酒精后果和饮酒行为短期变化的预测

• 批准号: 7911337
• 负责人: Jennifer Elizabeth Merrill
• 金额: $ 2.71万
• 依托单位: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-19 至 2012-03-18
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7911337
• 关键词: Alcohol consumption; Behavior; Behavioral; Cereals; Cognition; Cognitive; Communities; Data; Data Analyses; Decision Making; Evaluation; Heavy Drinking; Individual; Individual Differences; Intervention; Knowledge; Linear Models; Methodology; Online Systems; Outcome; Participant; Perception; Persons; Process; Readiness; Reporting; Risk; Severities; Students; Surveys; Symptoms; Techniques; Time; Variant; abstracting; alcohol consequences; alcohol related consequences; behavior change; catalyst; cognitive change; college; college drinking; drinking; drinking behavior; experience; insight; prospective; public health relevance; response; social cognitive theory; theories; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary/Abstract: Heavy alcohol use and its associated consequences are common during the college years, and are associated with deleterious short- and long-term outcomes for both the individuals and the college community. Though some college students make self-initiated changes to their drinking, little is known about how such adjustments occur or why and when students decide to make them. Such knowledge could inform intervention, by elucidating factors that might maximize the likelihood of behavior change. Data show that the experience of negative consequences from drinking is one important catalyst for change. Yet, there is significant individual variability in subjective responses to consequences and thus, variability in how such consequences may elicit behavioral change. Social Learning Theory (SLT) provides a guiding theory in this proposal with primary aims to investigate (1) whether subjective cognitive evaluations regarding the aversiveness, negativity, and severity of experienced alcohol consequences influence within-person changes in drinking behavior, and (2) whether individual-level variables (past experience with and normative perceptions of alcohol consequences) influence week-to-week alterations in drinking behavior by way of such cognitions. A secondary aim involves examining the association between empirically established severity of experienced consequences and within-person behavioral change. Following a baseline assessment of individual difference variables, participants (N=66 regularly drinking college students) will complete weekly web-based surveys to report on previous week alcohol use and experience of 24 alcohol-related consequences, as well as their cognitive evaluations of those consequences. Data will be collected for 10 weeks, to provide both within- and between-person variation. Using such methodology in combination with hierarchical linear modeling techniques will allow a fine-grained (week-to-week), prospective examination of the hypothesized effects as they unfold over time. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Project Narrative: Aims of the present study represent keys to providing insight into the processes by which students self- initiate change in alcohol use behaviors and to refining interventions for college drinking, particularly those that target how individuals think about their behavior and its consequences. Findings also have potential to inform efforts to prioritize for intervention those students most at risk for continued problematic drinking.

描述（由申请人提供）： 项目摘要/摘要：在大学期间，大量饮酒及其相关的后果很常见，并且与个人和大学社区的有害短期和长期结局有关。尽管一些大学生对饮酒进行了自我启动的改变，但对于这种调整的发生，原因以及何时决定进行的调整知之甚少。这些知识可以通过阐明可能最大程度地改变行为变化的因素来为干预提供信息。数据表明，饮酒产生负面后果的经历是变化的重要催化剂。然而，对后果的主观响应有明显的个人变异性，因此，这种后果如何引起行为改变。社会学习理论（SLT）在这项提案中提供了一种指导理论，其主要目的是调查（1）关于经验丰富的酒精后果的主观认知评估，是否会影响饮酒行为的人内部变化，以及（2）个人水平变量（对酒精的过去的经验和周围的规范性饮酒的经验）是否会改变饮酒行为的变化是否会影响饮酒行为。次要目的涉及研究经验确定的经验后果的严重性与个人内部行为改变之间的关联。在对个体差异变量进行基线评估之后，参与者（n = 66名定期喝水的大学生）将完成每周基于Web的调查，以报告上周的酒精使用和24种与酒精有关的后果的经验，以及对这些后果的认知评估。数据将收集10周，以提供人际关系和人之间的变化。将这种方法与分层线性建模技术结合使用，将允许在随着时间的推移随着时间的流逝而进行细粒度（每周）对假设效应的前瞻性检查。 公共卫生相关性： 项目叙述：本研究的目的代表了对学生自我启动饮酒行为变化并完善大学饮酒干预措施的过程的关键，尤其是那些针对个人如何思考其行为及其后果的过程。调查结果还有潜力为这些学生优先考虑这些学生的优先级，以持续饮酒的危险。