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Components analysis of a brief intervention for college drinkers

Eggleston, Angela Meade
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1187360527

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2007, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Psychology.
Excessive and harmful alcohol consumption is especially common among college students in the United States and is associated with proximal and distal psychiatric and medical morbidity. Brief, individual interventions that provide either risk and normative feedback or normative feedback alone have been shown to particularly efficacious with high-risk college drinkers. The relative efficacy of the two types of feedback has not been determined, however. The current study compares the efficacy of these two interventions with a sample of high-risk college drinkers. It also provides preliminary data on purported mechanisms of change: risk- and norm-perception. College students (n = 1197) were screened for alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems. The top quartile of this sample (n = 299), in terms of alcohol use severity, was randomly assigned to one of three treatment conditions: risk and normative feedback, normative feedback alone or assessment only. All treatment conditions included a baseline assessment session and the feedback conditions included an in-person feedback session. One hundred and fifteen participants successfully completed their assigned condition. Thirty-eight participants (33%) completed an assessment six months later. Overall, findings did not replicate the existing literature supporting the efficacy of these feedback interventions. Neither feedback group showed appreciable, unqualified reductions in alcohol consumption or alcohol-related problems at follow-up. Primary predictors of alcohol use and alcohol-related problems at follow-up were the baseline measures of these variables. Furthermore, the relationships between baseline and follow-up measures were often qualified by an interaction effect, with individuals who consumed more alcohol or experienced more alcohol-related problems, relative to other participants, being more likely to have a negative response to treatment. Finally, there were no group differences on purported mechanisms of change. Findings may be explained by methodological and sample differences between this study and other, related studies, as well as by social and cognitive mechanisms
Michael Vasey (Advisor)
133 p.
Psychology, Clinical
binge drinking; alcohol use; alcohol use disorders; brief intervention; college students; motivational interviewing; BASICS

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  • Eggleston, A. M. (2007). Components analysis of a brief intervention for college drinkers [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1187360527

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Eggleston, Angela. Components analysis of a brief intervention for college drinkers. 2007. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1187360527.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Eggleston, Angela. "Components analysis of a brief intervention for college drinkers." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1187360527

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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