Bradley Boekeloo1, Melinda Griffin. 1. Department of Public and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. boekeloo@umd.edu
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To examine variable frequencies and relationships between students' intentions and confidence with their intervention. METHODS: Incoming freshmen (509 of 1155 students responded) completed a survey 2 months into college. RESULTS: Most (75.2%) students intervened into others' drinking, usually as a caretaker. Students reported more intention to intervene with others with whom they had more affiliation, and confidence with less intrusive intervention. Intention to intervene (b=0.36, SE=0.10, P<0.001) and intervention confidence (b=0.27, SE=0.06, P<0.001) correlated with intervention. CONCLUSIONS: With education to enhance their intention and confidence to intervene, first-year college students might be encouraged to intervene into others' social drinking.
OBJECTIVES: To examine variable frequencies and relationships between students' intentions and confidence with their intervention. METHODS: Incoming freshmen (509 of 1155 students responded) completed a survey 2 months into college. RESULTS: Most (75.2%) students intervened into others' drinking, usually as a caretaker. Students reported more intention to intervene with others with whom they had more affiliation, and confidence with less intrusive intervention. Intention to intervene (b=0.36, SE=0.10, P<0.001) and intervention confidence (b=0.27, SE=0.06, P<0.001) correlated with intervention. CONCLUSIONS: With education to enhance their intention and confidence to intervene, first-year college students might be encouraged to intervene into others' social drinking.
Authors: Hilary F Byrnes; Brenda A Miller; Beth Bourdeau; Mark B Johnson; David B Buller; Julia Berteletti; Veronica A Rogers Journal: J Stud Alcohol Drugs Date: 2019-07 Impact factor: 2.582