title: Interactive multimedia preventive alcohol education: a technology application in higher education.
abstract: This article summarizes the process of implementation and short-term impact on knowledge and attitudes of an interactive multimedia software program on preventive alcohol education for young adults. The three factors related to behavioral change addressed in the software are self-efficacy in maintaining personal control and safety while using alcohol, attitudes and related expectations regarding the physiological and behavioral consequences of alcohol consumption, and peer norms regarding alcohol consumption. As compared to alternative alcohol education and a no-alcohol education groups, students using the interactive computer lesson reported learning more about dose-response and ways to intervene with friends in peril. The article concludes with consideration of the import of this technology for informing students about the consequences of alcohol use, and the utility to higher education institutions of using this technology in an era when pressures increase for due diligence around student safety but with few additional institutional resources.
authors.affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Reis
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Riley
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lokman
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Baer
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D015146:Midwestern United States; D019212:Multimedia; D010379:Peer Group; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012984:Software; D013333:Student Health Services; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities; D014584:User-Computer Interface