Early Intervention to Prevent Student Binge Drinking

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究是一个新的研究计划的延续和进一步发展，旨在减少大学一年级学生饮酒的发生和程度，通过提供有效的个性化干预措施，在大学入学前。我们的目标是影响大学的高中运动员的饮酒行为，在他们的高中高年级的春天，通过提高他们的父母的影响力和/或将他们介绍给大学生运动员谁将作为同侪辅导员提供一个简短的动机反馈干预。运动员代表了一个高风险和未被充分研究的群体，现有的研究表明，高中运动员饮酒量与其他学生一样多或更多。研究还表明，对许多学生来说，在大学里过量饮酒是高中饮酒倾向的延续或加剧。然而，几乎所有目前的方法在大学饮酒领域的基础上实施干预，而学生在大学。此外，还没有针对高中运动员的理论驱动的系统干预措施，以防止他们过渡到大学时滥用酒精。我们打算对高中学生运动员实施两种早期干预：（1）基于Turrisi及其同事的工作的基于父母的干预（PBI）和（2）基于Turrisi及其同事的工作的简短同伴传递动机干预（BPMI）。 Larimer及其同事。有足够的实证证据表明，这些干预措施在大学和老年青少年样本的有效性，以保证检查其独特的和合并的加性效应的高风险高中运动员样本。这两个研究项目的整合将提供一个独特的理论框架和丰富的数据库，以评估在青少年发展的后期阶段，父母和同伴提供的干预方法的好处。因此，本研究将调查，通过使用析因设计，独特的和综合效用的PBI和BPMI，以减少酒精的发病，使用和负面影响的高中运动员，以最终减少大学生饮酒;确定人口和心理特征的高中运动员的干预措施是更有效的人与那些干预措施是相对无效的;并检查干预措施影响学生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.