A computer-based brief intervention for college drinkers

描述（由申请人提供）： 这个项目的目标是开发，评估和传播两个软件程序，提供简短的动机干预重度饮酒的大学生：大学饮酒者的检查（CDCU）。CDCU将是Drinker's Check-up（DCU）Windows程序的修订版，也是为老年人开发的并行Web应用程序。干预措施将包括综合评估、反馈和决策模块。这些计划将使用有效的简短激励干预所共有的框架元素。目标人群是大量饮酒的大学生（男性每次饮酒5杯或更多，女性每次饮酒4杯或更多）。第一阶段的目标是修改DCU Windows应用程序及其配套程序，随访饮酒者检查（FDCU），然后评估它们的技术价值和可行性。DCU修订版旨在：1）将额外的元素添加到适合于大学生的饮酒量/频率和酒精相关问题的评估中，2）删除不适合于大学生的依赖性和酒精相关问题的评估，3）添加关于量/频率和酒精相关问题的大学特定规范反馈，4）将动画图形添加到反馈模块中，修改程序的外观和感觉，使其更能吸引学生。发展协调股的修订将与发展协调股评估模块的修订并行，并将修订其成果报告职能，以反映评估和反馈方面的变化。第二阶段的目标包括根据试点研究和专家小组的反馈对CDCU和FDCU Windows应用程序进行任何额外的修订，对最终原型进行试点测试，然后进行为期12个月的对照临床试验以评估其有效性。DCU的网络应用程序也将进行修改，使其与CDCU的Windows应用程序并行。开发，评估和传播有效的计划，减少大量饮酒可能是一个答案，在大量的情节饮酒及其后果的学生增加。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goals of this project are to develop, evaluate, and disseminate two software programs that provide brief motivational interventions for heavy drinking college students: The College Drinker's Check-ups (CDCUs). The CDCUs will be revisions of the Drinker's Check-up (DCU) Windows program and a parallel web application developed for older adults. The interventions will consist of integrated Assessment, Feedback and Decision Making modules. The programs will use the FRAMES elements common to effective brief motivational interventions. The target population is heavy drinking college students (5 or more drinks per occasion for males, 4 or more for females). Phase I goals are to revise the DCU Windows application and its companion program, the Follow-up Drinker's Check-up (FDCU) then evaluate them for technical merit and feasibility. DCU revisions are to: 1) add additional elements to the assessment of quantity/frequency of drinking and of alcohol-related problems appropriate to college students, 2) delete assessments of dependence and alcohol-related problems that are inappropriate for college students, 3) add college specific normative feedback on quantity/frequency and alcohol-related problems, 4) add animated graphics to the feedback module, and 6) revise the look and feel of the program to make it more appealing to students. FDCU revisions will parallel those in the assessment module in the CDCU and revisions to its outcome report functions that reflect changes in the assessments and feedback. Phase II goals include any additional revisions of the CDCU & FDCU Windows applications based on feedback from the pilot study and expert panel, pilot testing of the final prototype, then a controlled clinical trial with 12 month follow-up to assess its effectiveness. The DCU web application also will be revised so that it is parallel to the CDCU Windows application. Developing, evaluating, and disseminating effective programs that reduce heavy drinking could be one answer to the increase in heavy episodic drinking and its consequences in students.