ArticlePsychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors2017
Brief online interventions targeting risk and protective factors for increased and problematic alcohol use among American college students studying abroad.
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- Social norms information for alcohol misuse in university and college students.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Interventions to reduce college student drinking: State of the evidence for mechanisms of behavior change.Clinical psychology review · 2015Pooled it
- Brief alcohol interventions for adolescents and young adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2015Pooled it
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- Study design to develop and pilot-test a web intervention for partners of military service members with alcohol misuse.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2014Trial
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- Changes in Cigarette, E-Cigarette, and Cannabis Use among U.S. College Students Studying Abroad.Substance use & misuse · 2020Article
- Cognitive factors and addiction.Current opinion in psychology · 2019Review
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- Where in the World Is This Research Taking Us? Collaborating on Publishable Research With Undergraduates Abroad.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Italian Credit Mobility Students Significantly Increase Their Alcohol Intake, Risky Drinking and Related Consequences During the Study Abroad Experience.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2016Article
- Demographic and predeparture factors associated with drinking and alcohol-related consequences for college students completing study abroad experiences.Journal of American college health : J of ACH · 2014Article
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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
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