Brief Prevention Interventions for Young Adults: Strengthening Effects (Day 2)

College age remains a significant risk period for hazardous/extreme drinking among males and females. Recent data suggests that while drinking patterns are converging across sexes, college-age females are engaging in greater levels of binge drinking. Although brief interventions (BI) designed to reduce alcohol consumption and related harms in college and young adult populations have shown positive effects, the rigor of research on this topic has been impaired by limited outcome measurement, measurement inconsistencies, variability in methodologies, and modest effect sizes. There is a paucity of studies that use comparative designs of efficacious interventions that examine mediators and moderators (e.g., gender, sub-population differences, developmental considerations, behavioral and neurocognitive phenotypes, and environmental factors that contribute to change) and how these relate to behavior change and maintenance of effects. Adapting existing evidence-based intervention designs and tailoring approaches to meet specific individual and contextual characteristics may contribute to greater intervention efficacy, longer term reductions in high risk/extreme drinking and related consequences, and cost savings where resources are limited. The overall goal of this conference is to build upon the existing base of evidence-based alcohol BI for college and young adult populations (e.g., CollegeAIM, recent meta-analyses) and address key areas that will advance the field: 1) methods and...
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