Parent Based Interventions to Prevent Student Drinking

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究是基于Turrisi及其同事（1999;2000;2001）的研究项目的进一步发展，该项目旨在通过实施有效的基于家长的干预（pbi）来减少饮酒的发生和程度，并有助于改变校园规范。研究的重点是在大学一年级期间，通过父母的干预来影响学生的饮酒行为。对话将在以下三种情况下进行：(1)在大学入学之前，在高中和大学之间的过渡时期（PCM），(2)在大学入学之前，然后在整个秋季学期（PCMB），或者(3)大学入学后在大学第一学期的秋季（AMC）。所有的努力都将试图使学生更能抵制那些鼓励他们采取或继续酗酒行为的影响，并减少这些行为。我们之前的研究提供了经验证据，证明了PCM的有效性，以保证对其作为入学后干预措施的有效性进行检查。虽然已经有关于家长参与的有效性的积极报告（例如，Elliot, 2000），但在同行评议文献中，几乎没有发表过系统的理论驱动的研究来检验有效性，以探讨是否存在对大学生实施家长干预的关键时期。这一空白，再加上越来越多的大学在入学前后都寻求让家长参与进来，因此需要系统的实证努力。为此，本研究的目的可以总结如下：(1)调查和比较入学前、入学前和入学后使用PBIs的效果，(2)确定不同PBIs对哪些亚组更有效，哪些亚组效果更差，(3)检查不同PBIs影响酒精使用和后果的中介过程。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The present study is the further development of a program of research designed to reduce the onset and extent of drinking and contribute to the changing campus norms through implementation of efficacious Parent-Based Interventions (PBIs) based on the work of Turrisi and colleagues (1999; 2000; 2001). The focus is on influencing drinking behavior of the students through an intervention with their parents during their first year of college. The conversations will take place in one of three conditions; (1) prior to college matriculation during the transition period between high school and college (PCM), (2) Prior to college matriculation and then throughout the fall semester resulting from booster parent "check-ins" (PCMB), or (3) after college matriculation during the fall of the first semester at college (AMC). All efforts will attempt to make students more resistant to influences that encourage the adoption or continuation of heavy drinking behaviors and reduce these behaviors. Our prior research has provided empirical evidence demonstrating the efficacy of the PCM to warrant an examination of its efficacy as an after matriculation intervention. Although there have been positive reports of efficacy of involvement of parent efforts (e.g., Elliot, 2000), virtually no systematic theory-driven research examining efficacy has been published in the peer review literature exploring whether there is a critical period for implementing parent interventions with college students. This void, coupled with an increased number of universities seeking to involve parents before and after matriculation, argues for systematic empirical efforts. Toward this end the aims can be summarized as follows: (1) To investigate and compare the efficacy of PBIs when administered prior to matriculation versus prior to matriculation with boosters versus after matriculation, (2) To identify subgroups for whom the different PBIs are more effective versus less effective, and (3) To examine mediational processes by which the different PBIs influence alcohol use and consequences.