Pedersen Eric R, Neighbors Clayton, Atkins David C, Lee Christine M, Larimer Mary E
Department of Behavioral and Policy Sciences.
Department of Psychology, University of Houston.
Psychol Addict Behav. 2017 Mar;31(2):220-230. doi: 10.1037/adb0000242. Epub 2017 Jan 12.
Research documents increased and problematic alcohol use during study abroad experiences for college students yet no research documents effective preventive programs with these students. The present randomized controlled trial was designed to prevent increased and problematic alcohol use abroad by correcting misperceptions of peer drinking norms abroad and by promoting positive and healthy adjustment into the host culture (i.e., sojourner adjustment) through brief online personalized feedback interventions. A sample of 343 study abroad college students was randomly assigned to 1 of 4 conditions including a personalized normative feedback intervention (PNF), a sojourner adjustment feedback intervention (SAF), a combined PNF + SAF intervention, and an assessment-only control condition. Generalized estimated equation analyses accounting for baseline drinking and consequences revealed an intervention effect for PNF that was mitigated by baseline drinking level, such that PNF was best for those with lighter baseline drinking, but heavier baseline drinkers receiving PNF alone or PNF + SAF drank comparatively similar or more heavily abroad to those in the control condition. However, PNF + SAF condition participants with greater baseline levels of consequences reported comparatively less consequences abroad than their control participants. Thus, PNF alone may be helpful for lighter drinkers at predeparture and the addition of SAF to PNF may help prevent consequences abroad for those reporting more consequences prior to departure abroad. This research represents an important first step in designing and implementing efficacious interventions with at-risk study abroad college students, for which no current empirically based programs exist. (PsycINFO Database Record
研究记录了大学生在海外学习期间饮酒量增加及饮酒问题，但尚无研究记录针对这些学生的有效预防项目。本随机对照试验旨在通过纠正对海外同伴饮酒规范的误解，并通过简短的在线个性化反馈干预促进对东道国文化的积极健康适应（即旅居适应），来预防海外饮酒量增加及饮酒问题。343名海外学习的大学生样本被随机分配到4种条件之一，包括个性化规范反馈干预（PNF）、旅居适应反馈干预（SAF）、联合PNF + SAF干预和仅评估的对照条件。考虑到基线饮酒情况和后果的广义估计方程分析显示，PNF有干预效果，但受到基线饮酒水平的影响，即PNF对基线饮酒量较轻的人效果最佳，但单独接受PNF或PNF + SAF的基线饮酒量较重的人在海外的饮酒量与对照条件下的人相比相似或更高。然而，PNF + SAF条件下基线后果水平较高的参与者在海外报告的后果相对少于其对照参与者。因此，单独的PNF可能对出发前饮酒量较轻的人有帮助，而在PNF中加入SAF可能有助于预防那些在出国前报告后果较多的人在海外出现后果。这项研究是为有风险的海外学习大学生设计和实施有效干预措施的重要第一步，目前尚无基于实证的项目。（PsycINFO数据库记录
