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. 2009 Jan-Feb;33(1):91-100.
doi: 10.5993/ajhb.33.1.9.

Collegiates' intention and confidence to intervene into others' drinking

Bradley Boekeloo  1 , Melinda Griffin
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Collegiates' intention and confidence to intervene into others' drinking

Bradley Boekeloo et al. Am J Health Behav. 2009 Jan-Feb.

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.

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Figure 1. Rates* of College Student Interventions Into Others’ Social Drinking-related Behaviors During First 2 Months of College
Note. *Percentage of incoming freshmen who “ever” did the behavior since arriving to campus that semester. **Chi-square differences by gender, P < 0.05.
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