Trial reportPsychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors2016
A parent-based intervention reduces heavy episodic drinking among first-year college students.
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- Classes of Caregiver-Student Responsiveness to a Self-Directed Handbook Preventive Intervention and Their Associated Impact on First-Year Student Substance Use.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Trial
- Text Messages Conveying Parental Drinking Limits: A Potential Avenue for Preventing and Reducing Alcohol Use in College Students.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2024Trial
- "Letting Go and Staying Connected": Substance Use Outcomes from a Developmentally Targeted Intervention for Parents of College Students.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Trial
- Do the effects of parent-based alcohol interventions depend on college residence? A short communication.Addictive behaviors · 2022Trial
- Online personalized normative alcohol feedback for parents of first-year college students.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2016Trial
- Initial testing of the College Parent Guide: an artificial intelligence chatbot to support parents in preventing college student drinking and reducing related risks.Journal of psychology and AI · 2026Article
- Associations Between Greek Affiliation, Parental Permissiveness Toward Heavy Episodic Drinking, and Alcohol Use Among First-Year College Students.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Personalized Feedback in Parent-Based Interventions to Prevent or Reduce Adolescent Drinking.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2025Article
- It's Not Just What Parents Say, It's Why They Say It: Students' Perceptions of Parents' Motives for Alcohol Communication.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2025Article
- A longitudinal examination of factors predicting maternal permissiveness toward underage student drinking across the first three years of college.Addictive behaviors · 2025Article
- "Let's Not Talk About It": Parents' Reasons for Not Discussing Alcohol Use With Emerging Adult Children.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2025Article
- Process Evaluation and Investigation of Cultural Adaptations for an Online Parent-Based Intervention Using a Mixed-Method Approach.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2024Article
- Whose Approval Matters Most? Examining Discrepancies in Self- and Other- Perceptions of Drinking.Substance use & misuse · 2024Article
- An examination of the associations between depressive symptoms, perceived parental discipline, alcohol use, and drinking-related consequences during the first year of college: A moderated mediation model.Journal of affective disorders reports · 2023Article
- Taking alcohol from one's parents' home without permission as a risk factor for greater alcohol and marijuana use during the transition into college.Addictive behaviors · 2023Article
- How do college students use their free time? A latent profile analysis of leisure activities and substance use.Leisure sciences · 2023Article
- Capturing the bigger picture: A gestalt of general and alcohol-specific social media usage during the transition to college as a predictor of first-year alcohol use and consequences.Addictive behaviors · 2023Article
- A Longitudinal Study of Alcohol and Cannabis Use in Young Adulthood: Exploring Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Effects of Peer and Parental Influences From Middle Adolescence.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2022Article
- Evaluating Non-response Bias in a Parent-Based College Alcohol Intervention.Substance use & misuse · 2022Article
- The Prospective Effects of Parents' and Friends' Approval of Drinking on Simultaneous Alcohol and Marijuana Use during College.Substance use & misuse · 2021Article
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Abstract
A randomized controlled trial tested an interactive normative feedback-based intervention-codenamed "FITSTART"-delivered to groups of 50-100 parents of matriculating college students. The 60-min session motivated parents to alter their alcohol-related communication by correcting normative misperceptions (e.g., about how approving other parents are of student drinking) with live-generated data. Then, tips were provided on discussing drinking effectively. Incoming students (N = 331; 62.2% female) completed baseline measures prior to new-student orientation. Next, at parent orientation in June, these students' parents were assigned to either FITSTART or a control session. Finally, 4 months later, students completed a follow-up survey. Results revealed that students whose parents received FITSTART during the summer consumed less alcohol and were less likely to engage in heavy episodic drinking (HED) during the first month of college. These effects were mediated by FITSTART students' lower perceptions of their parents' approval of alcohol consumption. Further, FITSTART students who were not drinkers in high school were less likely to initiate drinking and to start experiencing negative consequences during the first month of college, where FITSTART students who had been drinkers in high school experienced fewer consequences overall and were significantly more likely to report that they did not experience any consequences whatsoever during the first month of college. Importantly, FITSTART is the first parent-based intervention to impact HED, one of the most well-studied indicators of risky drinking. Thus, interactive group normative feedback with parents is a promising approach for reducing college alcohol risk. (PsycINFO Database Record
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