Website Prevention of College Binge Drinking

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请提出了一个两阶段的项目，将开发一个互联网网站干预预防和减少大学生酗酒。互联网干预将采用动机访谈和规范反馈的原则，在其设计，并将包含六个模块，是面向预防酗酒的大学生。动机访谈-规范反馈网站（MI-NF）的核心模块将评估参与者的酒精使用和规范感知。根据参与者的答复，该网站将提供纠正性规范反馈以及减少危险酒精消费模式的建议和选择菜单。在该项目的第一阶段，将利用多媒体发展研究进程（包括多媒体重点小组和迭代设计改进技术）制定网站干预措施。在该项目的第二阶段，将在两所参与的大学网站上进行网站干预的随机有效性试验。这个设计将提供一个严格的测试网站上的各种酒精相关的变量的影响，并检查使用交互式网络技术的大学生在大学一年级。该项目具有几个理论和方法上的优势，包括将有效的MI-NF干预技术扩展到一个功能强大且易于传播的电子格式，并采用避免以往研究局限性的研究设计。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application proposes a two phase project that will develop an Internet website intervention for the prevention and reduction of college student binge drinking. The internet intervention will employ motivational interviewing and normative feedback principles in its design, and will contain six modules that are oriented toward the prevention of binge drinking by college students. The core module in the Motivational Interviewing-Normative Feedback website (MI-NF) will assess participant alcohol use and normative perception. Based on the participant's response, the website will provide corrective normative feedback and a menu of advice and options for reducton of risky alcohol consumption patterns. In the first phase of the project, multimedia development research processes (including multimedia focus groups and iterative design improvement techniques) will be used to develop the website intervention. In the second phase of the project, a randomized efficacy trial of the website intervention will be mounted with two participating university sites. This design will provide a stringent test of the impact of the website on a variety of alcohol-related variables, and examine the use of interactive web technology by college students over their freshman year at university. The project carries several theoretical and methodological strengths, including extending effective MI-NF intervention techniques to a powerful and easily diffused electronic format, and employing a research design that avoids the limitations of previous research.