Online Intervention to Prevent Risky Behaviors During College Student Study Abroad Experiences

预防大学生留学过程中危险行为的在线干预

• 批准号: 9361561
• 负责人: Eric R. Pedersen
• 金额: $ 38.08万
• 依托单位: RAND CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-05 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9361561
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Project Summary/Abstract The current project aims to broaden the reach of brief alcohol interventions to young adults at risk for heavy and problematic alcohol use abroad by testing an online intervention for study abroad students, an at-risk population currently lacking empirically-supported intervention. Although studying abroad represents an opportunity for cultural, personal, and academic growth that is experienced by over 304,000 U.S. students annually, students more than double their alcohol consumption while abroad, experience a host of consequences that can affect their time abroad and have damaging implications for themselves and their home institutions, and are at-risk for continued heavy drinking upon return home. Problematic drinking by study abroad students is a significant and unaddressed problem. Student affairs personnel working with study abroad students report that heavy drinking abroad is their biggest concern and they identify the lack of empirically-supported approaches for these students as a major unmet need. With increasing numbers of students enrolling in study abroad programs each year, and a growing concern about their high-risk behavior, there is a need to demonstrate support for preventive alcohol misuse programs for these students. Our pilot work with 343 students at one institution established preliminary efficacy for a personalized normative feedback (PNF) intervention targeting perceptions of alcohol use by other study abroad peers and local residents of one’s host country. Yet, heavier drinkers abroad warranted an additional intervention component based on the unique risks within the specific study abroad environment. In the pilot, students who received PNF enhanced with sojourner adjustment feedback (SAF) that promoted engagement with the cultural experience abroad and addressed difficulties adjusting to life in the foreign environment drank less and experienced fewer alcohol-related consequences abroad. In the proposed randomized controlled trial, we seek to apply updated research, theory, and feedback from students to enhance our intervention content and expand the testing of the combined PNF and SAF intervention to 1,200 participants from 35 universities and colleges in the U.S. We will compare students in the intervention condition to those in a control condition on drinking, consequences, and sexual risk outcomes, the latter of which are strikingly common among study abroad students and have the potential for lasting physical and psychological effects upon return home. This research represents an important step toward preventing problematic drinking for students entering into this period of known risk. This study has potential for great impact, as we will collaborate with the Forum on Education Abroad—a collaboration among 800 U.S. and foreign institutions—to disseminate findings and implement the intervention across multiple institutions in need of empirically-based pre-departure programs. Methodologies and intervention content tested in this study can lead to future research and programming with other groups of Americans in need of programs addressing drinking and other risky behaviors while abroad.

项目总结/摘要 目前的项目旨在扩大短期酒精干预措施的范围，使之适用于有重度酒精中毒风险的年轻人。 通过测试一项针对海外留学生的在线干预措施， 目前缺乏医疗支持的干预措施。虽然出国留学代表着一种 超过304，000名美国学生经历的文化，个人和学术成长的机会 每年，学生们在国外的酒精消费量增加一倍以上，经历了许多 这些后果可能影响他们在国外的时间，并对他们自己和他们的家庭产生破坏性影响 这些人都是在公共机构工作，回家后有继续大量饮酒的风险。按研究划分的饮酒问题 留学生是一个重要而未解决的问题。学生事务人员与研究工作 留学生报告说，在国外酗酒是他们最担心的问题，他们认为缺乏 作为一个主要的未满足的需要，为这些学生提供医疗支持的方法。随着越来越多的 每年都有学生报名参加海外留学项目，人们越来越担心他们的高风险行为， 有必要表明对这些学生预防酗酒方案的支持。我们的飞行员 在一个机构与343名学生一起工作，建立了个性化规范的初步功效。 反馈（PNF）干预，针对其他研究国外同行和当地人对酒精使用的看法 东道国的居民。然而，国外的酗酒者需要额外的干预成分 根据特定留学环境中的独特风险。在试点中，学生谁收到 通过旅居者调整反馈（SAF）增强PNF，促进与文化 在国外的经历和适应国外生活环境的困难， 在国外，与酒精有关的后果较少。在拟议的随机对照试验中，我们寻求 应用最新的研究、理论和学生的反馈来增强我们的干预内容， 将PNF和SAF联合干预的测试扩大到来自35所大学的1,200名参与者， 我们将比较干预条件下的学生和控制条件下的学生， 饮酒，后果和性风险结果，后者在研究中非常常见。 这可能会对海外学生造成伤害，回国后可能会造成持久的身心影响。这 这项研究是防止学生酗酒的重要一步， 已知风险期。这项研究有可能产生巨大影响，因为我们将与论坛合作， 海外教育--800个美国和外国机构的合作--传播研究结果， 在需要以医疗为基础的离境前方案的多个机构中实施干预措施。 在这项研究中测试的方法和干预内容可以导致未来的研究和规划， 其他需要在国外解决饮酒和其他危险行为的美国人群体。