Online Parent-Based College Alcohol and other Drug Use Prevention

描述(申请人提供)：本申请建议开发和测试一个在线家长为基础的物质使用预防教育资源的青少年准备过渡到大学，我的学生身体(MSB)-家长。MSB-Parent将由高校提供给入学学生的家长，帮助他们帮助孩子实现积极的过渡。考虑到最近对父母参与年轻人生活的关注，这个项目来得正是时候。目前的NIAAA和NIDA倡议支持研究父母作为影响大学酒精和其他药物使用的媒介所起的作用。研究表明，父母继续影响他们年轻的成年子女，特别是在进入大学的过渡时期，药物使用和其他危险行为明显增加。研究还表明，过渡后的头6至8周对学生长期适应和在校保留率有重大影响。MSB家长将利用现有的理论和实证工作，包括关于大学在校青少年的发展需求、酒精和其他药物的教育，以及帮助父母与他们的青少年就大学文化进行沟通的策略，包括物质使用和相关风险。MSB-Parent将利用网络技术创建一种创新的家长预防方法，其中包括音频和流媒体视频、引人入胜的图形、动画、互动投票、测验和工具，以及已建立的学校特定和国家资源。一项随机对照研究将对父母和他们的大学青年进行，以确定该计划在影响父母自我效能、亲子沟通、学生酗酒和其他药物使用倾向以及过渡到大学期间的适应方面的有效性。MSB-Parent将补充一套全面的基于证据的大学生在线预防计划，该计划由NIH支持开发，目前正在全国约100所学校实施。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application proposes development and testing of an online parent-based substance use prevention education resource for parents of youth preparing to make the transition to college, MyStudentBody(MSB)-Parent. MSB-Parent will be offered by colleges and universities to parents of incoming students to help them to facilitate a positive transition for their child. This project is timely given the recent focus on parent involvement in young adult lives. Current NIAAA and NIDA initiatives support research for examining the role of parents as agents for influencing college alcohol and other drug use. Research demonstrates that parents continue to influence their young adult children, particularly across the transition to college when substance use and other risk behaviors markedly increase. Studies also demonstrate that the first six- to eight-weeks following the transition have a significant influence on longer term student adjustment and school retention rates. MSB Parent will draw on extant theoretical and empirical work to include education about the developmental needs of college-bound teens, alcohol and other drugs, and strategies to help parents communicate with their teen about college culture, including substance use and associated risks. MSB-Parent will harness Web technologies to create an innovative approach to parent-based prevention that incorporates audio and streaming video, engaging graphics, animation, interactive polls, quizzes, and tools, and established school- specific and national resources. A randomized controlled study will be conducted with parents and their college-bound youth to determine efficacy of the program for influencing parent self- efficacy, parent-youth communication, and student alcohol and other drug use tendencies and adjustment across the transition to college. MSB-Parent will complement a comprehensive suite of evidence-based online prevention programs for college students developed with support from NIH and currently being implemented in approximately 100 schools nationwide.