Evaluation of Brief Intervention for Young Adult Alcohol-Related Risk Behaviors

描述(由申请人提供)：简短的个性化反馈干预在减少大学生饮酒和危险行为方面是有效的。评估简短个性化反馈干预措施效果的研究尚未评估基于网络的简短个性化反馈干预措施，该干预措施的重点是通过解决酒精在危险行为中的作用来降低大学生和非大学生年轻人的风险，从而将酒精与危险行为内容相结合。大多数干预试验只在大学生中进行，因此缺乏评估没有上过大学的年轻人的短暂干预的文献。因此，在考虑经验性支持的大学干预措施对更广泛的年轻人群体的普适性方面，存在着一个重要的差距。这项拟议的研究将审查一种基于网络的个性化反馈干预措施，该干预措施将酒精和危险行为成分结合起来，将酒精消费作为危险行为的一个因素，以减少18-25岁的年轻成年饮酒者与酒精相关的危险行为。为了实现这一目标，这项研究将招募450名18-25岁的年轻人作为社区样本，并在1个月、6个月和6个月时对他们进行评估。我们将通过将随机分配到接受综合干预(n=150)的年轻人与联合干预(n=150)和注意控制组(n=150)进行比较来评估综合干预的总体效果。我们将检验知觉描述性规范、期望、保护性行为策略和饮酒的变化是否会中介干预效果。大学生身份和相关背景因素将被评估为干预效果的调节变量。这项拟议的研究既有意义又有创新，因为它将在一个多样化的社区样本中开发和评估酒精和危险行为的简短综合干预，这些样本包括正在上和没有上大学的年轻人，并将利用社交网站进行筛查和干预交付。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Brief personalized feedback interventions have been effective at reducing drinking and risky behavior among college students. Research evaluating the effect of brief personalized feedback interventions has yet to evaluate a web-based brief personalized feedback intervention that focuses on the integration of alcohol and risky behavior content by addressing the role of alcohol in risky behavior to reduce risk among college and non-college young adults. Most intervention trials have been conducted solely among college students resulting in a dearth of literature evaluating brief interventions among young adults who do not attend college. Thus, there is an important gap in considering the generalizability of empirically supported college interventions to broader young adult populations. The proposed research will examine a web-based personalized feedback intervention that integrates alcohol and risky behavior components to address alcohol consumption as a factor in risky behavior to reduce alcohol-related risky behavior among young adult drinkers aged 18-25. To accomplish this objective the study will enroll a community sample of 450 young adults aged 18-25 and assess them at 1-, and 6-months. We will evaluate the overall efficacy of the integrated intervention by comparing young adults randomly assigned to receive the integrated intervention (n=150) to a combined intervention (n=150) and an attention control group (n=150). We will examine whether changes in perceived descriptive norms, expectancies, protective behavioral strategies, and drinking mediate intervention efficacy. College student status, and related contextual factors, will be evaluated as moderators of intervention efficacy. The proposed study is both significant and innovative in that it will develop and evaluate a brief integrated alcohol and risky behavior intervention among a diverse, community sample of young adults attending and not attending college and will utilize social networking sites for screening and intervention delivery.