College Bystanders: Coaching Students With Technology to Help Intoxicated peers

描述(申请人提供)：每年有一半的大学生因饮酒而遭受不良后果。尽管存在完善的酒精教育项目，但饮酒及其后果的盛行表明，可能需要一个项目，将重点从教授个人戒酒转移到教育学生如何认识到在涉及酒精的社交聚会上照顾朋友和同龄人的必要性。拟议的项目是Klein Buendel，Inc.的研究人员和多媒体程序员，科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的学生健康服务专业人员和研究人员，以及新墨西哥大学的研究人员合作，为大学生制作一个可上网的计算机辅助旁观者干预(CABI)计划，该计划将使学生的帮助行为正常化，并教会学生在负面酒精相关事件发生之前监控朋友和干预的技能。这个第一阶段的项目将专注于开发CABI的主要部分：基于大学生饮酒和旁观者行为的社会心理的可变结果视频(VOV)。这个基于科学和创新的VOV项目使用了一个分支的故事情节来向学生呈现适合干预的大学派对场景，并通过这个故事情节利用叙事交流在变化中的记录效果。完成的第二阶段产品将是三个部分的CABI计划，完全可以在线访问，该计划将：a)教育学生关于旁观者效应和酒精使用；b)帮助学生学习识别干预机会的行动线索；c)为学生提供VOV，在其中他们可以练习在安全的虚拟环境中选择干预行动。拟议的SBIR第一阶段项目将为该CABI计划中最广泛的部分--VOV开发内容和外观设计。具体地说，我们将：a)收集专家咨询委员会、学生咨询委员会和学生焦点小组的意见，以开发彻底规划VOV部分的一个结果和故事板剩余结果所需的内容和美学样式；b)利用学生健康服务专业人员的在线调查意见，确定如何设计该计划以便于大学生健康社区使用，并为高校制定计划，以帮助他们将计划整合到现有的健康教育计划中；c)与学生重点小组一起测试VOV计划原型的美感和可用性；d)制定规范文档，概述完整的第二阶段发展计划。拟议中的计划是第一批基于旁观者的酒精项目之一，据我们所知，也是第一个在线提供机会接触到大量学生的项目。该项目可能会对大学生的生活产生巨大影响，因为它使帮手身份正常化，并为他们提供了克服干预相关焦虑所需的技能，并在涉及饮酒的社交聚会上照顾同龄人。 与公共健康相关：尽管存在完善的酒精教育项目，但每年有一半的大学生因饮酒而经历负面后果(如昏迷、无保护的性交或性侵犯以及身体伤害)，这表明有必要制定一个项目，将重点从教授个人戒酒转移到教育学生如何认识到在涉及酒精的社交聚会上照顾朋友和同龄人的必要性以及如何照顾他们。这个拟议的项目将测试为大学生制作一种基于科学的、创新的互联网辅助旁观者干预(CABI)计划的可行性，该计划将使帮助行为正常化，并向学生传授干预技能，方法是让他们沉浸在以大学派对为主题的可变结果视频中，在虚拟环境中，他们可以练习选择干预行动并观察这些行动的结果。由于许多学生都经历了饮酒的负面影响，该项目有可能对公共健康产生巨大影响，因为它使大学生中的帮助者身份正常化，并为他们提供克服干预相关焦虑所需的技能，并在涉及饮酒的社交聚会上照顾朋友和同龄人。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Every year, half of all college students experience a negative consequence as a result of their or other students alcohol use. This prevalence of drinking and ensuing consequences, despite the existence of well developed alcohol education programs, indicates a possible need for a program that shifts focus from teaching personal alcohol abstinence to educating students on how to recognize the need to care for, and how to take care of, their friends and peers at social gatherings involving alcohol. The proposed project is a partnership between researchers and multimedia programmers at Klein Buendel, Inc., student health service professionals and researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and researchers at the University of New Mexico to produce an Internet-accessible Computer Assisted Bystander Intervention (CABI) program for college students that will normalize student helping behavior and teach students skills to monitor their friends and intervene before negative alcohol-related events occur. This Phase I project will focus on developing the main segment of the CABI: a variable outcome video (VOV) based on social psychology of college student drinking and bystander behavior. The scientifically-based and innovative proposed VOV program uses a branching storyline to present students with college party scenarios for which intervention is appropriate, and through that storyline capitalizes on the documented effect of narrative communication in changing. The completed Phase II product will be the three-segment CABI program, completely accessible online, that will: a) educate students about the bystander effect and alcohol use, b) help students learn to recognize action cues for intervention opportunities, and c) provide students with the VOV in which they can practice choosing intervention actions in the safety of a virtual environment. The proposed SBIR Phase I project will develop the content and the look and feel design for the most extensive segment of this CABI program, the VOV. Specifically, we will: a) gather input from an Expert Advisory Board, Student Advisory Board, and student focus groups to develop the content and aesthetic styling needed to thoroughly program a prototype for one outcome of the VOV segment and storyboard remaining outcomes; b) with online survey input from student health service professionals, determine how to design the program to be user friendly for college student health communities, and develop a plan for colleges to use to help them integrate the program into their existing health education programs; c) test the aesthetics and usability of the VOV program prototype with student focus groups; d) develop a specifications document to outline the full Phase II development plan. The proposed program is one of the first bystander-based alcohol programs, and to our knowledge, the first to be available online which provides the opportunity to reach a large number of students. The project has potential to have great impact on college students lives by normalizing a helper identity, and providing them with the skills they will need to overcome intervention-related anxiety and take care of their peers at social gatherings involving alcohol consumption. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Despite the existence of well-developed alcohol education programs, every year half of all college students experience a negative consequence (e.g., blackouts, unprotected sexual intercourse or sexual assault, and physically injury) as a result of their or other students alcohol use, which indicates a need for a program that shifts focus from teaching personal alcohol abstinence to educating students on how to recognize the need to care for, and how to take care of, their friends and peers at social gatherings involving alcohol. The proposed project will test the feasibility of producing a scientifically-based, innovative Internet-accessible Computer Assisted Bystander Intervention (CABI) program for college students that will normalize helping behavior and teach students intervention skills, by immersing them in a college party themed variable outcome video in which they can practice choosing intervention actions and observing the outcomes of those actions in the safety of a virtual environment. Because so many students experience negative effects of alcohol use, the project has the potential to have great impact on public health by normalizing a helper identity among college students, and providing them with the skills they will need to overcome intervention-related anxiety and take care of their friends and peers at social gatherings involving alcohol consumption.