Alcohol-Related Information in Multi-Component Interventions and College Students' Drinking Behavior

Autor/inn/en	Thadani, Vandana; Huchting, Karen; LaBrie, Joseph
Titel	Alcohol-Related Information in Multi-Component Interventions and College Students' Drinking Behavior
Quelle	In: Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 53 (2009) 2, S.31-51 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-1482
Schlagwörter	College Freshmen; Females; Intervention; Prevention; Drinking; Alcohol Education; Program Effectiveness; Knowledge Level; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studienanfänger; Weibliches Geschlecht; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Trinken; Wissensbasis
Abstract	Education-only interventions produce little change in drinking behaviors; but, multi-component prevention programs, which include alcohol information as one feature, can decrease drinking. This study examined the role of alcohol knowledge in a multi-component intervention previously found to reduce first-year female college students' alcohol consumption. Intervention and control group students completed pre and postintervention assessments of drinking behaviors, and a postintervention assessment of alcohol-knowledge. Intervention students outperformed control students on the measure of alcohol knowledge. However knowledge did not predict drinking outcomes for this group, and it was positively correlated with drinking behaviors for control students. The findings suggest that, although learning took place through the intervention, it was not the mechanism by which the intervention reduced drinking behaviors. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10