Safer California Colleges and Universities

描述(申请人提供)：尽管经常呼吁采取有效的预防措施，但大学生饮酒仍然导致每年超过1700人死亡，60多万人被侵犯，几乎同样多的人无意中受伤，近10万人被性侵犯。在其“行动呼吁”中，NIAAA大学生饮酒问题特别工作组要求研究界开展严格的研究，以确定有效的预防策略。安全加州大学项目涉及14所大学，采用随机、控制组实验设计，开发并实施了一项全面的社区干预措施，旨在减少校外家庭和公寓的酒精消费和相关问题，似乎已经成功做到了这一点。这一竞争性延续应用程序寻求资金，以复制与以前的控制园区的干预，同时进一步发展实施，以实现更大的影响。它还将检查学生和校园层面的因素，这些因素可能会促进或减轻干预的影响。今后将通过开发一个“工具包”使干预措施的传播成为可能，该“工具包”旨在为在其他学院和大学复制该计划提供一般性和具体的指导。与公共卫生相关：大学生饮酒每年导致1700多人死亡，60多万人被侵犯，几乎同样多的人无意中受伤，近10万人遭到性侵犯。显然有必要制定预防计划和战略，以减少这种危害，并促进我们大学的教育使命。更安全的加州大学项目开发了一种前景看好的普遍酒精控制策略，似乎可以减少学生社交聚会中的醉酒。如果这些发现是可复制的，我们可能会有一个重要的预防策略来添加到有效计划的简短清单中。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Despite periodic calls for effective prevention, college student drinking is still responsible for over 1700 deaths annually, over 600,000 assaults, almost as many unintentional injuries and nearly 100,000 sexual assaults. In producing its "Call to Action," the NIAAA Task Force on College Student Drinking asked the research community to develop rigorous studies that would identify efficacious prevention strategies. The Safer California Universities Project, involving 14 universities and using a randomized, control-group experimental design, developed and implemented a comprehensive community intervention aimed at reducing alcohol consumption and related problems at off-campus homes and apartments, which seems to have succeeded in doing so. This competitive continuation application seeks funds to replicate the intervention with the former control campuses, while further developing the implementation to achieve even greater impact. It would also examine student and campus-level factors that may facilitate or mitigate the intervention's impact. Future dissemination of the intervention will be made possible by the development of a "toolkit" designed to give both general and specific instructions for duplicating the program at other colleges and universities. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: College student drinking is responsible for over 1700 deaths annually, over 600,000 assaults, almost as many unintentional injuries and nearly 100,000 sexual assaults. There is an obvious need to develop prevention programs and strategies to reduce this harm and facilitate the educational mission of our universities. The Safer California Universities Project has developed a promising universal alcohol control strategy that seems to reduce intoxication at student social gatherings. If these findings are replicable, we may have a significant prevention strategy to add to the short list of effective programs.