Alcohol and Violence Prevention for College Students

Heavy episodic drinking and sexual assault (SA) are problematic on college campuses. This project will adapt already developed interventions targeting alcohol use and SA to a mHealth format and involve content that incorporates federal guidelines and CDC recommendations to integrate both bystander intervention and risk reduction content with new innovative personalized content for each risk group (cis-gender heterosexual men, cis-gender heterosexual women, and sexual/gender minorities). Alpha testing with key stakeholders, an open pilot trial, and a randomized pilot trial will be conducted to establish acceptability and to estimate sample size for a larger randomized controlled trial.

Specific aims are as follows: Aim 1 (Stage IA): Modify Alcohol and Sexual Assault Prevention (ASAP) content to an eHealth format to include personalized content for each risk group (1. cisgender heterosexual men; 2. cisgender heterosexual women; and 3. sexual and gender minorities). Aim 1a: Assess normative behaviors (n = 500) regarding alcohol use and SA for feedback. Aim 1b: Adapt and assess initial acceptability of a workbook version of the intervention content among key stakeholders (college administrators and students from each risk group [n=5 from each group]). Aim 2 (Stage IB): Open Pilot Trial. Obtain usability of ASAP among 30 students who engage in HED (10 from each risk group) in an open pilot trial. Aim 3 (Stage IB): A pilot to assess effect size and variability for planning a randomized trial in the future. Randomize students who engage in HED to ASAP or control condition to observe preliminary effect sizes and estimate the variability using a 3-month follow-up. Sample size was determined to estimate the variability within a reasonable margin of error. This calculation also accounted the low base rates of SA and 20% attrition. This led to a sample size of 162 students (n=54 from each risk group).

Participants will receive an online intervention targeting alcohol misuse and sexual assault among college students. This will include a personalized normative feedback approach. In the first part of the study, there will be an open pilot (1 arm) and in the second part of the study there will be a control condition (2 arms - intervention + control)

This is an integrated social norms-based personalized feedback intervention for college students targeting alcohol misuse and sexual assault. This intervention targets alcohol use, sexual assault victimization risk, sexual assault perpetration, and bystander intervention and is tailored by gender and sexual orientation.

This is an integrated social norms-based personalized feedback intervention for college students targeting alcohol misuse and sexual assault. This intervention targets alcohol use, sexual assault victimization risk, sexual assault perpetration, and bystander intervention and is tailored by gender and sexual orientation.

Feasibility of enrollment recruitment was assessed by the number of anticipated participants enrolled in the study

Inclusion Criteria: 18-25 years old Current student at university of study Valid email address at university of study Endorse engaging in heavy episodic drinking at least once in the past month on the screening survey Exclusion Criteria: There are no exclusion criteria other than not meeting inclusion criteria

Gilmore AK, Leone RM, Oesterle DW, Davis KC, Orchowski LM, Ramakrishnan V, Kaysen D. Web-Based Alcohol and Sexual Assault Prevention Program With Tailored Content Based on Gender and Sexual Orientation: Preliminary Outcomes and Usability Study of Positive Change (+Change). JMIR Form Res. 2022 Jul 22;6(7):e23823. doi: 10.2196/23823.