Safer California Colleges and Universities

描述（由申请人提供）：尽管定期呼吁有效预防，大学生饮酒每年仍然造成1700多人死亡，60多万起袭击事件，几乎同样多的意外伤害和近10万起性侵犯事件。在发布“行动呼吁”时，NIAAA大学生饮酒问题工作组要求研究界开展严谨的研究，以确定有效的预防策略。“更安全的加州大学项目”涉及14所大学，采用随机对照实验设计，开发并实施了一项全面的社区干预，旨在减少校外家庭和公寓的酒精消费和相关问题，似乎已经成功地做到了这一点。这种竞争性的延续申请寻求资金，在前控制校区复制干预措施，同时进一步发展实施，以实现更大的影响。它还将检查可能促进或减轻干预影响的学生和校园层面的因素。通过开发一套“工具包”，未来干预措施的传播将成为可能，该工具包旨在为在其他学院和大学复制该计划提供一般和具体的指导。公共卫生相关性：大学生饮酒每年造成1700多人死亡，60多万起袭击事件，几乎同样多的意外伤害和近10万起性侵犯事件。显然有必要制定预防计划和策略来减少这种伤害，促进我们大学的教育使命。“更安全的加州大学项目”开发了一种很有前途的普遍酒精控制策略，似乎可以减少学生社交聚会上的醉酒现象。如果这些发现是可复制的，我们可能有一个重要的预防策略添加到有效的项目的短列表中。

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.