Alcohol Consequences, Hazardous Behavior
Conditions
Brief summary
The objective of this treatment development grant is to create an innovative and efficacious alcohol intervention for emerging adults using features from three theoretically sound and empirically supported approaches. A set of students will be engaged to serve as peer leaders to assist in reducing hazardous drinking behavior among their peers. This new intervention, a Bystander Brief Motivational Intervention (BBMI) spans Stages 1A and 1B of the stage model of behavioral therapies research and will utilize qualitative methods, an open trial, and a small controlled pilot trial within the targeted college community.
Detailed description
The objective of this treatment development grant is to create an innovative and efficacious alcohol intervention for emerging adults using features from three theoretically sound and empirically supported approaches. Established elements from Bystander Intervention (awareness of the problem, addressing pluralistic ignorance, skill building), Brief Motivational Intervention (client-centered foundation, corrective information about community norms, protective behavioral strategies) and Social Network Analysis (measuring network ties, identifying the influence of network members), will be integrated into a brief intervention that pays particular attention to the connectedness of residents in dormitory social networks. Social network analytic methods will be used to assess the primary peer network (the college residence) and a set of individuals exposed to others drinking risks will be identified to receive the intervention. This set of students will be engaged to serve as peer leaders to assist in reducing hazardous drinking behavior among their peers. This new intervention, a Bystander Brief Motivational Intervention (BBMI) spans Stages 1A and 1B of the stage model of behavioral therapies research and will utilize qualitative methods, an open trial, and a small controlled pilot trial within the targeted college community.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALBystander Brief Motivational Intervention
Group-based interactive intervention, conducted in two sessions, including multiple tasks and exercises to identify different levels of risk behavior, different types of strategies, and practicing responding to different scenarios. Personal goals for helping friends stay safe, and identifying whether intervention as a bystander was successful are included.
Sponsors
Brown University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
2-group trial in which one group serves as intervention recipients and one as assessment-only controls.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
17 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* First-year students in one of two residence halls. The subset of participants who were selected for intervention or control had to have been exposed to others who showed risk signs in the past month.
Exclusion criteria
* None
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Exposure to the Hazardous Drinking of Others | 1 month and 3 months | Number of risk signs observed in peers -validated measure |
| The Bystanders to Alcohol Risk Scale - Strategies | 1 month and 3 months | Number of strategies used to help others - validated measure |
| Alcohol Bystander Readiness to Help | 1 month and 3 months | Self-perception of readiness to help others in different situations - measure validation underway |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed