Online Parent-Based College Alcohol Prevention

描述(由申请者提供)：本申请提出了为大学生家长开发和测试在线酒精预防教育资源的第一阶段，MyStudentBody(MSB)-Parent。MSB-Parent将由高校向入学学生的家长提供，以帮助在学生过渡到大学生活的过程中促进降低酒精风险的教育。考虑到最近对父母参与年轻人生活的关注，这个项目来得正是时候。目前的NIAAA和NIDA倡议支持研究父母作为影响大学酒精和其他药物使用的媒介所起的作用。研究表明，父母继续对他们年轻的成年子女产生重大影响，特别是在过渡到大学期间，饮酒和其他危险行为明显增加。MSB-Parent将纳入改善亲子沟通的功能，并减少大学生中的危险饮酒。MSB-Parent将利用网络技术创建一种真正创新的方法，以家长为基础的预防工作，其中包括引人入胜的图形、动画、互动投票、测验和工具，以及建立特定于学校的地方、地区和国家资源。形成性研究将包括对父母和大学卫生专业人员的调查，与大学生的焦点小组，以及概念图程序。将开发一个示范网站，并提交给家长和大学专业最终用户进行可用性和验收测试，以证明可行性。MSB-Parent将补充一套全面的大学生在线预防计划，目前正成功地向全国学校营销。在向大学的过渡过程中，危险的酒精和其他药物使用的发生率会增加。年轻人危险饮酒的短期和长期经济、社会和社会代价是巨大的。父母可以在提供预防教育以促进减少与酒精有关的风险方面发挥重要作用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application proposes the first phase toward development and testing of an online alcohol prevention education resource for parents of college students, MyStudentBody(MSB)-Parent. MSB-Parent will be offered by colleges and universities to parents of incoming students to help promote alcohol risk reduction education as students make the transition to college life. This project is timely given the recent focus on parent involvement in young adult lives. Current NIAAA and NIDA initiatives support research for examining the role of parents as agents for influencing college alcohol and other drug use. Research demonstrates that parents continue to have a significant influence on their young adult children, particularly across the transition to college when alcohol use and other risk behaviors markedly increase. MSB-Parent will incorporate features demonstrated to improve parent-child communication, and reduce dangerous drinking among college students. MSB-Parent will harness Web technologies to create a truly innovative approach to parent-based prevention efforts that incorporates engaging graphics, animation, interactive polls, quizzes, and tools, and established school-specific local, regional and national resources. Formative research will include surveys of parents and college health professionals, focus groups with college students, and concept-mapping procedures. A demonstration website will be developed and submitted to usability and acceptance testing by parent and college professional end-users to demonstrate feasibility. MSB-Parent will complement a comprehensive suite of online prevention programs for college students currently being successfully marketed to schools nationwide. The incidence of risky alcohol and other drug use increases across the transition to college. The short- and long-term economic, social, and societal costs of dangerous drinking among young adults are tremendous. Parents can play an important role in providing prevention education to facilitate reduction of risks associated with alcohol.