Early Intervention to Prevent Student Binge Drinking

描述(由申请人提供)：本研究是一项新的研究计划的继续和进一步发展，旨在通过在大学入学前提供有效的以个人为导向的干预措施，减少学生在大学第一年饮酒的开始和程度。我们的目标是通过增强父母的影响力和/或将他们介绍给大学生运动员，他们将作为同伴顾问提供简短的激励反馈干预，来影响即将进入大学的高中运动员在高中高年级春季的饮酒行为。运动员是一个高危和学习不足的群体，现有的研究表明，高中运动员的饮酒量与其他学生一样多，甚至更多。研究还表明，对于许多学生来说，在大学里过度饮酒是高中饮酒倾向的延续或加剧。然而，目前在大学饮酒领域的几乎所有方法都是基于在学生在大学期间实施干预。此外，还没有针对高中运动员的理论驱动的系统干预措施，以防止他们在过渡到大学期间滥用酒精。我们打算对高中生运动员实施两个早期干预：(1)基于Turrisi和他的同事的工作的基于家长的干预(PBI)和(2)基于以下工作的简短的同伴传递的动机干预(BPMI 拉里默和他的同事。有足够的经验证据表明，这些干预措施在大学和年龄较大的青少年样本中的有效性，值得对高危高中运动员样本的独特和组合相加效应进行检查。这两个研究项目的整合将提供一个独特的理论框架和一个丰富的数据库，从中评估父母和同伴提供的干预方法在青少年发展的后期阶段的好处。因此，这项研究将通过使用析因设计，调查PBI和BPMI在减少高中运动员饮酒开始、使用和负面后果方面的独特和组合效用，从而最终减少大学生饮酒；确定干预措施对其更有效的高中运动员的人口统计学和心理特征，而对干预措施相对无效的高中运动员；检查干预措施影响学生饮酒使用和负面后果的过程。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The present study is a continuation and further development of a novel program of research designed to reduce the onset and extent of drinking by students during their first year of college, through provision of efficacious individually oriented interventions prior to college entrance. We aim to influence the drinking behavior of college-bound high school athletes during the spring of their senior year of high school, by enhancing the influence of their parents and/or by introducing them to college student athletes who will serve as peer counselors to provide a brief motivational feedback intervention. Athletes represent a high-risk and understudied group, and existing research indicates high school athletes drink as much as or more than other students. Research also indicates that for many students, excessive drinking in college is a continuation or exacerbation of high-school drinking tendencies. However, almost all current approaches in the college-drinking domain are based on implementing interventions while the students are at college. Further, there have been no theory-driven, systematic interventions targeting high school athletes so as to prevent alcohol misuse as they transition to college. We intend to implement two early interventions for high school student athletes: (1) a Parent-Based Intervention (PBI) based on the work of Turrisi and colleagues and (2) a Brief Peer-delivered Motivational Intervention (BPMI) based on the work of Larimer and colleagues. There is sufficient empirical evidence demonstrating the efficacy of these interventions in college and older adolescent samples to warrant an examination of their unique and combined additive effects for a high-risk high school athlete sample. The integration of these two research programs will provide a unique theoretical framework and a rich database from which to assess the benefits of parent and peer-delivered intervention approaches at this late stage of adolescent development. Thus, the research will investigate, through the use of a factorial design, the unique and combined utility of the PBI and the BPMI to reduce alcohol onset, usage and negative consequences among high school athletes so as to ultimately reduce college student drinking; identify demographic and psychological characteristics of high school athletes for whom the interventions are more effective versus those for whom the interventions are relatively ineffective; and examine processes by which the interventions influence use and negative consequences for students.