Prevention efforts underlying decreases in binge drinking at institutions of higher education.
Analyses of 94 Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE)-sponsored drug-prevention programs and their outcomes used the Core Survey to identify 34 institutions where college students' binge drinking increased (M = 5.44%) and 60 institutions where it decreased (M = -4.59%) during 2 years of program operation. The authors used an inductively derived taxonomy of prevention program elements, student variables, student substance use, use-related variables, and institutional variables to compare the 2 groups of institutions. Only prevention program elements discriminated between groups. Factor analysis of discriminating elements identified 8 prevention factors that improved base-rate prediction of institutional decrease in binge drinking by 28.1%. Factor synthesis yielded a 3-construct binge-drinking prevention model based on student participation and involvement strategies, educational and informational processes, and campus regulatory and physical change efforts. This model improved base-rate prediction of decreased binge drinking by 33.2%.
Ziemelis
Andris
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Counseling and Testing Center, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 54601, USA. ziemeilis.andr@uwlax.edu
Bucknam
Ronald B
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Elfessi
Abdulaziz M
AM
D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities / Q000145:classification* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data