162904 Design of a Randomized Campus-Community Trial to Reduce High-Risk Drinking and Alcohol-Related Consequences among College Students

Monday, November 5, 2007: 12:30 PM

Mark Wolfson, PhD , Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
Robert H. DuRant, PhD , Departments of Pediatrics and Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
Barbara Alvarez Martin, MPH , Div of Public Health Sciences/Dept of Social Sciences & Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
Scott Rhodes, PhD, MPH, CHES , Div of Public Health Sciences/Dept of Social Sciences & Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
Heather Champion, PhD , Div of Public Health Sciences/Dept of Social Sciences & Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
Kimberly G. Wagoner, DrPH , Div of Public Health Sciences/Dept of Social Sciences & Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
  
The Study to Prevent Alcohol-related Problems (SPARC) is a group-randomized trial involving 10 universities in North Carolina. SPARC is designed to implement and evaluate an intervention that uses community organizing to produce environmental changes in the community and campus environment to reduce the incidence of alcohol-related consequences. This paper describes the motivation and the innovative design of this trial. Methods used in selection and recruitment of colleges, randomization, process evaluation, and outcome evaluation are described. Implications for future trials of environmental interventions are discussed.

Learning Objectives:
Understand the background and significance of the application of an environmental approach to high-risk drinking by college students; Describe issues to be considered in designing a campus-community trial of an environmental approach to high-risk drinking

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No
Any institutionally-contracted trials related to this submission?

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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