College Bystanders: Coaching Students With Technology to Help Intoxicated peers

描述（由申请人提供）：每年，有一半的大学生因自己或其他学生饮酒而遭受负面后果。尽管存在着发达的酒精教育项目，但这种酗酒的流行及其后果表明，可能需要一个项目，将重点从教导个人戒酒转移到教育学生如何认识到关心的必要性，以及如何在涉及酒精的社交聚会上照顾他们的朋友和同龄人。拟议的项目是Klein Buendel公司的研究人员和多媒体程序员、学生健康服务专业人员和科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的研究人员之间的合作伙伴关系，与新墨西哥大学的研究人员合作，为大学生设计了一个可上网的计算机辅助旁观者干预（CABI）项目，该项目将使学生的帮助行为正常化，并教会学生监控朋友的技能，并在与酒精有关的负面事件发生之前进行干预。第一期项目将重点开发CABI的主要部分：基于大学生饮酒和旁观者行为社会心理学的可变结果视频（VOV）。基于科学和创新的VOV计划使用分支故事情节向学生呈现适合干预的大学派对场景，并通过故事情节利用在变化中的叙事沟通的记录效果。完成的第二阶段产品将是三个部分的CABI项目，完全可以在线访问，这将：a)教育学生关于旁观者效应和酒精使用，b)帮助学生学习识别干预机会的行动线索，c)为学生提供VOV，他们可以在虚拟环境的安全中练习选择干预行动。拟议的SBIR第一阶段项目将为该CABI项目中最广泛的部分VOV开发内容和外观设计。具体而言，我们将：a)收集专家顾问委员会、学生顾问委员会和学生焦点小组的意见，以开发所需的内容和美学风格，从而为VOV部分的一个结果和故事板的剩余结果进行彻底的原型编程；B)根据学生健康服务专业人员的在线调查输入，确定如何设计该计划以方便大学生健康社区使用，并制定一个计划供大学使用，以帮助他们将该计划整合到现有的健康教育计划中；c)通过学生焦点小组测试VOV节目原型的美观性和可用性；d)制定一份规格文件，概述完整的第II期发展计划。拟议的项目是第一个以旁观者为基础的酒精项目之一，据我们所知，这是第一个在线提供的项目，为大量学生提供了接触的机会。该项目有可能对大学生的生活产生巨大影响，使他们的帮助者身份正常化，并为他们提供克服干预相关焦虑所需的技能，并在涉及饮酒的社交聚会上照顾同龄人。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Every year, half of all college students experience a negative consequence as a result of their or other students alcohol use. This prevalence of drinking and ensuing consequences, despite the existence of well developed alcohol education programs, indicates a possible need for a program that shifts focus from teaching personal alcohol abstinence to educating students on how to recognize the need to care for, and how to take care of, their friends and peers at social gatherings involving alcohol. The proposed project is a partnership between researchers and multimedia programmers at Klein Buendel, Inc., student health service professionals and researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and researchers at the University of New Mexico to produce an Internet-accessible Computer Assisted Bystander Intervention (CABI) program for college students that will normalize student helping behavior and teach students skills to monitor their friends and intervene before negative alcohol-related events occur. This Phase I project will focus on developing the main segment of the CABI: a variable outcome video (VOV) based on social psychology of college student drinking and bystander behavior. The scientifically-based and innovative proposed VOV program uses a branching storyline to present students with college party scenarios for which intervention is appropriate, and through that storyline capitalizes on the documented effect of narrative communication in changing. The completed Phase II product will be the three-segment CABI program, completely accessible online, that will: a) educate students about the bystander effect and alcohol use, b) help students learn to recognize action cues for intervention opportunities, and c) provide students with the VOV in which they can practice choosing intervention actions in the safety of a virtual environment. The proposed SBIR Phase I project will develop the content and the look and feel design for the most extensive segment of this CABI program, the VOV. Specifically, we will: a) gather input from an Expert Advisory Board, Student Advisory Board, and student focus groups to develop the content and aesthetic styling needed to thoroughly program a prototype for one outcome of the VOV segment and storyboard remaining outcomes; b) with online survey input from student health service professionals, determine how to design the program to be user friendly for college student health communities, and develop a plan for colleges to use to help them integrate the program into their existing health education programs; c) test the aesthetics and usability of the VOV program prototype with student focus groups; d) develop a specifications document to outline the full Phase II development plan. The proposed program is one of the first bystander-based alcohol programs, and to our knowledge, the first to be available online which provides the opportunity to reach a large number of students. The project has potential to have great impact on college students lives by normalizing a helper identity, and providing them with the skills they will need to overcome intervention-related anxiety and take care of their peers at social gatherings involving alcohol consumption. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Despite the existence of well-developed alcohol education programs, every year half of all college students experience a negative consequence (e.g., blackouts, unprotected sexual intercourse or sexual assault, and physically injury) as a result of their or other students alcohol use, which indicates a need for a program that shifts focus from teaching personal alcohol abstinence to educating students on how to recognize the need to care for, and how to take care of, their friends and peers at social gatherings involving alcohol. The proposed project will test the feasibility of producing a scientifically-based, innovative Internet-accessible Computer Assisted Bystander Intervention (CABI) program for college students that will normalize helping behavior and teach students intervention skills, by immersing them in a college party themed variable outcome video in which they can practice choosing intervention actions and observing the outcomes of those actions in the safety of a virtual environment. Because so many students experience negative effects of alcohol use, the project has the potential to have great impact on public health by normalizing a helper identity among college students, and providing them with the skills they will need to overcome intervention-related anxiety and take care of their friends and peers at social gatherings involving alcohol consumption.