Environmental Factors Affecting College Party Drinking

描述(申请人提供)：这项为期两年的研究计划将行为科学应用于对联谊会聚会环境的系统研究，以确定与过度饮酒和醉酒有关的具体因素。目标人群是大学生(n=4800)，在一所大型大学参加兄弟会赞助的派对(n=48)。主要因变量是从凌晨12：00开始参加派对的人的血液酒精浓度(BAC)。至凌晨1：00--大多数兄弟会聚会的高峰期。拟议研究的主要实际目标是确定可用于制定政策和成本效益预防战略的环境因素，以减少大学生在社交聚会上过度饮酒及其伴随的负面影响。这项研究的具体目的是：a)确定与联谊会聚会上过度饮酒有关的环境因素，b)确定并提出政策相关的干预战略，以大规模解决这些环境因素，以及c)探索如何改善对大学政策和指导方针的遵从性，这些政策和指南可显著减少拟议研究客观确定的危险饮酒和中毒。因此，这项拟议的研究不仅将提供与联谊会聚会上过度饮酒有关的环境-行为和人-行为关系的流行病学分析，还将得出一份具体和可行的建议清单，大学可以用来减少校园派对上的酒精消费，从而提高学生的安全。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This two-year research proposal applies behavioral science to the systematic study of fraternity party environments in order to identify specific factors related to excessive alcohol consumption and intoxication of partygoers. The target population is university students (n=4,800) attending fraternity-sponsored parties (n=48) at a large university. The primary dependent variable is blood alcohol concentration (BAC) obtained from partygoers from 12:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. -- a peak time for most fraternity parties. The overarching practical objective of the proposed research is to identify environmental factors that can be used to develop policies and cost-effective prevention strategies for reducing excessive alcohol consumption and its concomitant negative effects among university students at social gatherings. The specific aims of this research are to: a) identify environmental factors related to excessive alcohol consumption at fraternity parties, b) identify and propose policy-related intervention strategies to address these environmental factors on a large scale, and c) explore ways to improve compliance with those university policies and guidelines for party drinking that significantly reduce at-risk drinking and intoxication, as determined objectively by the proposed research. Thus, the proposed research will not only provide an epidemiological analysis of environment-behavior and person-behavior relations related to excessive alcohol consumption at fraternity parties, but will derive a list of specific and feasible recommendations universities can use to decrease alcohol consumption at campus parties and thereby improve the safety of their students.