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Ulupinar, Dogukan; Parker, Lauren – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 2021
Prior research has found that living off-campus is associated with increased risk of binge drinking among college students. However, no study has included the role of residence type in the therapeutic outcomes of Personalized Normative Feedback (PNF) interventions. Among a sample of college students (N = 241) who received a PNF intervention, the…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Place of Residence, Intervention, Feedback (Response)
Ray, Anne Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that alcohol use is the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States and results in approximately 79,000 deaths annually. College students are at particular risk of alcohol-related consequences due to their heavy drinking tendencies, with multiple studies indicating over 40%…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Disease Control, Prevention, Drinking
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Skarstrand, Eva; Branstrom, Richard; Sundell, Knut; Kallmen, Hakan; Andreassen, Sven – Health Education, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine factors predicting parental participation and retention in a Swedish version of the Strengthening Families Programme (SFP). Design/methodology/approach: This study is based on data from a randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effects of the Swedish version of the SFP. The sample involves 441…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Foreign Countries, Grade 6, School Holding Power
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Dielman, T. E. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1994
Reviews school-based approaches to prevention of adolescent alcohol use and abuse undertaken in the 1950s through the 1970s and discusses problems associated with such studies, remedies to these problems, and current school-based approaches. Also discusses the Alcohol Misuse Prevention Study, a longitudinal intervention undertaken in the 1980s to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Drinking