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APHA Scientific Session and Event Listing

Randolph S. Devereaux, MSPH, Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1717 11th Ave. South, Medical Towers Bldg. Room 104, Birmingham, AL 35205, 205- 975-5241, randyd@uab.edu, Min Qi Wang, PhD, Expert Health Data Systems, Inc., 2387 HHP Bldg, Valley Drive, College Park, MD 20742, Supriya G. Reddy, MPH, Divison of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Medical Towers Building Room 104, 1717 11th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35205, Angela Stotts, PhD, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Mental Sciences Institute, Rm #110, 1300 Moursund Avenue, Houston, TX 77030, Jay M. Bernhardt, PhD, MPH, The National Center for Health Marketing, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy, MS K43, Atlanta, GA 30341-3717, Stuart Usdan, PhD, Department of Health Sciences, University of Alabama, Box 870311, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0311, and Joseph Schumacher, PhD, Division of Preventive Medicine, UAB School of Medicine, MT 616, 1530 3rd Ave S., Birmingham, AL 35294.

DriveStraight.com is an innovative, computerized assessment and personalized feedback program of drinking and driving behaviors for high risk college students. DriveStraight.com is grounded in theories of Motivational Interviewing and the Transtheoretical Model of Change and consists of the Impaired Driving Assessment (IDA); Personalized Feedback Report (PFR); Driving Simulation (DS); and Goal Delivery (GD). The IDA utilizes a timeline followback calendar method of documenting drinking days, drinking and driving days, and passenger days of a drinking driver in the past month. Detailed information such as types and amount of alcohol used is collected. For drinking and driving days, distinct episodes of driving after drinking are isolated and estimated blood alcohol content (BAC) values are calculated. IDA test, re-test reliability of the number of drinks on drinking and driving days was 0.80 (p<0.001) in a sample of 19 students. A PFR is generated from the IDA and reports personalized results to the student in the context of peer norms. The PFR includes stage-based interpretation as well as alcohol abuse and dependency diagnostic impressions. The DS provides animated feedback in the form of driving simulations for three levels of impaired driving: no alcohol, highest BAC in past month, and episode of student's choice. Finally, the GD provides students with a menu of stage-based goals to reduce or avoid drinking and driving. Efficacy research on DriveStraight.com, funded by NIAAA, is currently underway. Preliminary findings from this research plus essential elements of the development of computerized interventions for college students will be discussed.

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to

• Discuss challenges in creating a web-based health education program for drinking and driving among college students.
• Identify three benefits of conducting a web-based assessment using the timeline followback method for alcohol use and drinking and driving behaviors among college students.
• Apply principles of Motivational Interviewing and the Transtheoretical Model of Change into a drinking and drinking and driving assessment and personalized feedback report.

Keywords: Alcohol, College Students

Related Web page: www.drivestraight.com

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No