Abstract

This article discussed how an intervention affects the amount of drinking that occurs during a spring break trip by undergraduate college students. To gather their participants, the researchers sent out an email or an invitation in the mail asking them to participate in this study. Those who were interested in participating in the study then had to take a series of surveys. The surveys split the groups into two different ones. There was a control group and an experimental group. Some students had the chance to participate with a friend while others had to participate individually. Every participant had to attend an intervention session. some intervention sessions were conducted online, while others were conducted in person. When the participants came back from spring break they were asked to do a post-spring break survey. Approximately 93% participated in this survey. The study measured different things including amount of drinks consumed, blood-alcohol content, and total number of drinking related consequences. Overall, the researchers were partially pleased with the results of the study. The study showed that doing in-person interventions did help decrease the amount of drinks consumed during spring break. While, the web based interventions that were done while the participant and friend were involved did not help prevent consuming alcohol at all.

Review of Literature

In this article, the authors discuss how spring break intervention was designed to reduce the overall drinking intentions. Each part of the personalized feedback was designed to highlight each students intended drinking and associated behaviors with the goal of allowing the student to reflect on how his or her intentions may be consisted with their desired experiences. The author hypothesized that drinking intentions would be a mediator of intervention efficacy by reducing spring break drinking intentions and spring break drinking would be lower (Lee,2014). The independent variable in this study is prevention strategies. The dependent variable of the study was drinking.

Method

The participants of this study were 11,462 undergraduate college students who planned on going on a spring break trip and planned to drink heavily. All participants took a survey eight weeks out from spring break about their intentions during spring break. The participants also completed a consent form at that time. After the initial survey, the participants who met the criteria took another survey five weeks before spring break. That survey was 40-45 minute baseline survey about their alcohol use and another intended behavior. After the completion of the baseline survey, participants participated in web based and in-person intervention sessions. The control group of the study consisted of 10,679 students. They were then sent an email with a link to a survey asking about their satisfaction with the prior surveys. After spring break was over, all participants completed a post intervention survey. Approximately 93.1% of the students completed the post-spring break assessment. They were then paid