Start Date
15-12-2020 2:50 PM
Description
As universities reopen, they will be required to follow strict guidelines to guarantee students’ safety. The proposed research seeks to evaluate the efficacy of a personalized normative feedback intervention at reducing dangerous behaviors displayed by students during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will create and disseminate a survey for the student population measuring perceptions of general student attitudes and behaviors as well as their own behaviors and attitudes towards campus health guidelines. Then, in the first portion of the study, the students who answered the norms documentation survey will be randomized into two groups, with one group receiving PNF one week after the initial survey and the other serving as a control. One month later, both groups will complete a follow-up survey assessing the same behaviors as the first, recording discrepancies between the groups, and comparing the percent of each group adjudicated for their unhealthy behaviors. We expect the students in the PNF intervention group, as compared to the control group, will report less risky attitudes and behaviors and to have been adjudicated less often for violating campus health policies. The second portion will provide adjudicated students with a more-detailed PNF intervention and follow up with them 1-month post PNF. We expect these students to report less risky attitudes and behaviors and conform better to campus health protocols than they did prior to the PNF intervention.
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PNF & COVID-19: How an Alcohol Intervention Can Reduce the Spread on College Campuses
As universities reopen, they will be required to follow strict guidelines to guarantee students’ safety. The proposed research seeks to evaluate the efficacy of a personalized normative feedback intervention at reducing dangerous behaviors displayed by students during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will create and disseminate a survey for the student population measuring perceptions of general student attitudes and behaviors as well as their own behaviors and attitudes towards campus health guidelines. Then, in the first portion of the study, the students who answered the norms documentation survey will be randomized into two groups, with one group receiving PNF one week after the initial survey and the other serving as a control. One month later, both groups will complete a follow-up survey assessing the same behaviors as the first, recording discrepancies between the groups, and comparing the percent of each group adjudicated for their unhealthy behaviors. We expect the students in the PNF intervention group, as compared to the control group, will report less risky attitudes and behaviors and to have been adjudicated less often for violating campus health policies. The second portion will provide adjudicated students with a more-detailed PNF intervention and follow up with them 1-month post PNF. We expect these students to report less risky attitudes and behaviors and conform better to campus health protocols than they did prior to the PNF intervention.
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Mentor: Joseph LaBrie