INTERVENING WITH FRATERNITIES TO DECREASE ALCOHOL ABUSE

描述：这项为期两年的申请结合了 应用学习理论、社会影响理论和 个性研究，以开发成本效益高的干预措施来减少 高危饮酒及其相关的负面影响。这个 研究对象是参加联谊会赞助的派对的大学生 过量饮酒的地方。该方法扩展了 调查人员之前的NIAAA支持的研究通过评估正在进行的一方 可能增加或减少酒精含量的行为和条件 消费，以及测量信仰、意图和血液酒精含量 专注力(BAC)在学生参加24小时之前和之后 不同的联谊会/联谊会派对。对党的系统观察 将使用行为和条件来制定宿主干预计划 用于在赠款期间的第二年进行实地测试。二 对比减少高危酒精的教育/培训方法 消费和相关的负面后果(特别是酒后驾车)将是 在第一年进行了评估。每种干预方法(即 阻力技能与规范反馈)具有坚实的理论基础 并经常用于减少酒精含量的教育/培训方法中 虐待。关于这些影响的相对影响的客观行为证据 干预方法是不存在的。拟议中的研究将在 这些不同方法对大学人群的干预和 比较它们对酒精规范、态度和意图的影响 消费，以及实际的BAC和派对行为。结果是 这项评估将导致综合抵抗技能的发展 外加反馈干预，将在第二年和 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 派对结束时的实际BAC。这一发现支持Azjen和 菲什拜因的理性行动理论，并认为干预 成功地降低了过量饮酒的意图 也将减少有风险的饮酒。当前的干预措施 应用程序的设计考虑到了这一点，应该具有更大的影响力 而不是我们之前研究中测试的干预措施。不像 调查人员之前的做法，这些干预将涉及兄弟会 和联谊会成员在政党面前，并授权他们 不同。

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.