INTERVENING WITH FRATERNITIES TO DECREASE ALCOHOL ABUSE

描述：这项为期两年的申请结合了以下实用技术： 应用行为分析与理论，从学习，社会影响， 个性研究，以制定具有成本效益的干预措施， 酒精消费风险及其相关的负面影响。 的 受试者是参加兄弟会主办的派对的大学生 过度饮酒的地方 该方法扩展了 调查人员先前通过评估正在进行的研究， 可能增加或减少酒精的行为和状况 消费，以及测量信仰，意图和血液酒精 浓度（BAC）之前和之后的学生参加24 不同的兄弟会/姐妹会派对 党的系统观察 行为和条件将用于制定宿主干预计划 在资助期的第二年进行实地测试。 两 对比教育/培训方法，以减少危险酒精 消费和相关的负面影响（特别是酒后驾车）将是 在第一年进行评估。 每种干预方法（即 抵抗技巧vs.规范反馈）有着坚实的理论基础 并经常用于减少酒精的教育/培训方法 虐待 关于这些因素的相对影响的客观行为证据 干预措施不存在。 拟议的研究开发 从这些不同的方法对大学人口的干预， 比较了它们对关于酒精的规范、态度和意图的影响， 消费，以及对实际BAC和党的行为。 的结果 这项评估将导致开发一种综合的抵抗技能， 加上反馈干预，将在第二年进行测试， 与宿主干预计划相比。 调查人员先前由NIAAA资助的研究表明，参加派对的人 关于酒精损害程度的意图与他们的 在派对结束时做一个真正的血液酒精浓度测试 这一发现支持Azjen和 Fishbein的理性行为理论，并建议干预， 成功地减少了饮用过量酒精饮料的意图 也会减少危险饮酒。 目前的干预措施 应用程序的设计考虑到了这一点，应该更有影响力 比我们之前的研究中测试的干预措施更有效。 不像 研究人员先前的方法，这些干预措施将涉及博爱 和联谊会成员面前的各方，并授权他们作出一个 差

DESCRIPTION: This two-year application combines the practical technology of applied behavior analysis with theories from learning, social influence, and personality research to develop cost-effective interventions for decreasing at-risk alcohol consumption and its associated negative effects. The subjects are university students attending fraternity-sponsored parties where excessive alcohol is consumed. The methodology extends the investigators' prior NIAAA-supported research by assessing on-going party behaviors and conditions that potentially increase or decrease alcohol consumption, as well as measuring beliefs, intentions, and blood alcohol concentration (BAC) immediately before and after students attend 24 different fraternity/sorority parties. The systematic observation of party behaviors and conditions will be used to develop a Host Intervention program for field-testing during the second year of the grant period. Two contrasting education/training approaches to reduce at-risk alcohol consumption and associated negative consequences (especially DUI) would be evaluated during the first year. Each intervention approach (i.e. Resistance Skills vs. Normative Feedback) has a solid theoretical foundation and is used frequently in education/training approaches to reduce alcohol abuse. Objective behavioral evidence regarding the relative impact of these intervention approaches is nonexistent. The proposed research develops interventions from these differing approaches for a college population and compares their impact on norms, attitudes, and intentions regarding alcohol consumption, as well as on actual BAC and party behaviors. The results of this evaluation will lead to the development of a combined Resistance Skills plus Feedback intervention that will be tested during the second year and compared with a Host Intervention program. The investigators' prior NIAAA-funded research has shown that party-goers' intentions regarding levels of alcohol impairment match closely to their actual BAC at the end of the party. This finding supports Azjen and Fishbein's Theory of Reasoned Action and suggests that interventions successful at reducing intentions to drink excessive alcoholic beverages will also reduce at-risk drinking. The interventions in the present application were designed with this in mind and should be more influential than the interventions tested in our prior research. Unlike the investigators' prior approaches, these interventions will involve fraternity and sorority members before the parties and empower them to make a difference.