ArticleAddictive behaviors2021
Binge drinking before and after a COVID-19 campus closure among first-year college students.
Article in Addictive behaviors, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03930524 (An Adaptive Preventive Intervention to Optimize the Transition From Universal to Indicated Resources for College Student Alcohol Use), which is not on this map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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An Adaptive Preventive Intervention to Optimize the Transition From Universal to Indicated Resources for College Student Alcohol Use
Who cites it
35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 64 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Motivation to Abstain from Drinking as a Moderator of Associations Between Parent and Offspring Problem Drinking.Substance use & misuse · 2024Article
- Binge drinking leads to an oxidative and metabolic imbalance in skeletal muscle during adolescence in rats: endocrine repercussion.Journal of physiology and biochemistry · 2023Article
- University students' (binge) drinking during COVID-19 lockdowns: An investigation of depression, social context, resilience, and changes in alcohol use.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Alcohol Use, Anxiety and Depression among FrenchInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Factors Associated with Self-Reported Changes in Alcohol Use among Young Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparative Analysis between Canada and France.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- College students' virtual and in-person drinking contexts during the COVID-19 pandemic.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2022Article
- Relationship Between Depression and Risky Alcohol Consumption in Women: the Mediating Role of Coping Styles and Age.International journal of mental health and addiction · 2022Article
- Did the acute impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on drinking or nicotine use persist? Evidence from a cohort of emerging adults followed for up to nine years.Addictive behaviors · 2022Article
- Comparing Alcohol Use of Pre-COVID-Era and COVID-Era Cohorts of Mandated College Student Drinkers.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeThe COVID-19 pandemic is associated with reports of increased substance use. College students are a population of concern for high risk binge drinking and their behavior may be particularly impacted by COVID-19 campus closures. Therefore, we examine first-year college students' binge drinking soon after their university's pandemic-related suspension of in-person operations.
methodsStudents from a single campus (N = 741; age: M = 18.05, SD = 0.22) completed one assessment in April-May 2020 post-campus closure (March 2020) including theoretically-informed measures (e.g., drinking motives, norms) and two items of self-reported pre- and post-closure binge drinking frequency, the focus of these analyses.
resultsAbout half of students consistently reported not binge drinking pre- and post-closure; 6.75% reported a consistent frequency of binge drinking pre- and post-closure. Many (39.41%) reported lower 30-day binge drinking post-campus closure compared to their pre-closure reports; few (4.18%) reported higher 30-day binge drinking frequency post-campus closure. Students reporting lower binge drinking post-closure showed differences in coping, social, and enhancement drinking motives and isolation. Students reporting greater post-closure binge drinking reported higher perceived drinking norms and were more likely to be in Greek life.
conclusionThis study demonstrates self-reported patterns in binge drinking among first-year college students at the point of COVID-19 campus closures. Pandemic-related college closures may have been a temporary environmental intervention on this high-risk behavior for some students. Although many students were not binge drinking, some continued binge drinking after closure and may benefit from preventive interventions.
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