EARLY INTERVENTION TO PREVENT STUDENT BINGE DRINKING

本研究将开发和评估一种干预策略，旨在减少大学一年级学生酗酒的发生和程度。 所采取的方法是相对新颖的，因为干预的重点是在高中毕业和大学开学之间的关键时期，通过父母影响学生在上大学之前的酗酒行为。 几乎所有目前的方法在狂饮领域是基于实施干预，而学生在大学。 相比之下，目前的方法试图在学生进入大学之前接触他们，以便使他们更能抵抗鼓励采用或继续酗酒行为的影响。具体来说，我们打算教育家长酗酒的问题，并鼓励他们与他们的青少年谈论这些问题之前，青少年开始他或她的大学教育。 过去的研究已经确定了我们认为父母可以传达给孩子的信息和观点，这些信息和观点最终将减少大学狂饮。因此，该研究将开发一种干预措施，教导父母如何在进入大学之前向他们十几岁的儿子和女儿传达有关酗酒的信息，这将减少大学酗酒的发生;评估干预措施的有效性;确定干预似乎相对成功的家长和学生的人口统计学和心理概况，相对无效。

The present research will develop and evaluate an intervention strategy designed to reduce the onset and extent of binge drinking in students during their first year of college. The approach taken is relatively novel in that the focus of the intervention is on influencing binge drinking behavior of the students before they come to college, through their parents, during the critical time between high school graduation and the beginning of college. Almost all current approaches in the binge drinking domain are based on implementing an intervention while the students are at college. By contrast, the present approach attempts to reach students just before they come to college, so as to make them more resistant to influences that encourage the adoption or continuation of binge drinking behaviors. Specifically, we intend to educate parents about the problem of binge drinking and to encourage them to talk with their teen about these issues just before the teen embarks on his or her college education. Past research of has identified information and perspectives that we believe parents can convey to their children that will ultimately reduce college binge drinking. Thus, the research will develop an intervention to teach parents how to convey information about binge drinking to their teenage sons and daughters just prior to their entering college that will reduce the onset of binge drinking in college; Evaluate the efficacy of the intervention; and Identify demographic and psychological profiles of parents and students for whom the intervention seems to be relatively successful versus those for whom the intervention is relatively ineffective.