The purpose of the present study was to evaluate an adapted web-based multi-component personalized feedback intervention to reduce college student alcohol use and risky sexual behavior during Spring Break. This is one of the first interventions focused on Spring Break alcohol use and related sexual behavior. Personalized feedback intervention components addressed intentions, expected consequences, norms,… Continue reading Web-based intervention to change perceived norms of college student alcohol use and sexual behavior on spring break.

OBJECTIVE: Given the known risks of alcohol use and sexual behavior for college students on Spring Break, this study was designed to document the behaviors and correlates associated with being on a Spring Break trip on a given day (controlling for average time on a trip). METHOD: Participants were undergraduate students (n = 261; 55%… Continue reading Daily variations in Spring Break alcohol and sexual behaviors based on intentions, perceived norms, and daily trip context

Introduction and Aims Spring Break is associated with high levels of alcohol use and related consequences, and with risky sexual behaviour, among North American college students. However, the extent to which Spring Break drinking and sexual behaviours are related has not been well documented. Design and Methods Undergraduate students (n?=?263) were surveyed prior to and… Continue reading Daily associations of alcohol use with sexual behaviour and condom use during Spring Break

Aims To examine age-18 risk factors for alcohol use and heavy drinking during early (ages 22 and 26) and middle (age 35) adulthood, and for symptoms of alcohol use disorders (AUDs) in middle adulthood.Design Nationally representative samples of US adolescents in their senior year of secondary school (age 18) were followed into middle adulthood. Structural… Continue reading Adolescent risk factors for adult alcohol use and abuse: stability and change of predictive value across early and middle adulthood

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the association between Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), alcohol-use disorders (AUDs) and nonmedical use of prescription drugs (NMPD) among U.S. college students. A secondary aim of this study was to identify individual-level and college-level characteristics associated with the co-occurrence of AUDs… Continue reading Alcohol-Use Disorders and Nonmedical Use of Prescription Drugs Among U.S. College Students

AbstractPurpose To estimate the prevalence of alcohol use at the age of 10–11 years and document variation by early sociodemographic and concurrent alcohol-specific risk factors. Methods The Millennium Cohort Study is a prospective, nationally representative study of live births in the United Kingdom across 12 months. A random sample of electoral wards was stratified to… Continue reading Alcohol Use at the Cusp of Adolescence: A Prospective National Birth Cohort Study of Prevalence and Risk Factors

Aims To identify childhood and adolescent predictors of alcohol use and harmful drinking in adolescence and adulthood. Design Longitudinal data from childhood to mid-life from the National Child Development Study (NCDS) were used, including predictors collected at ages 7, 11, 16 years and alcohol outcomes collected at ages 16, 23, 33 and 42 years. Setting… Continue reading Childhood and adolescent predictors of alcohol use and problems in adolescence and adulthood in the National Child Development Study

Within the domain of risk-related behavior, many times the decision to engage is not a product of premeditation or intention. The prototype willingness model was created to capture and explain the unintended element of risk behavior. The present study aimed to evaluate the importance of willingness versus intention, two important constructs within the prototype willingness… Continue reading Spring Break Versus Spring Broken: Predictive Utility of Spring Break Alcohol Intentions and Willingness at Varying Levels of Extremity