Alcohol-related vehicular death rates for college students in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Objective: Determine rate of college student alcohol-related vehicular traffic fatalities in Virginia during 2007.

Participants: 17- to 24-year-old cohort [corrected] at colleges and universities in Virginia.

Methods: Institutions with membership in the American College Health Association were invited to participate in a survey.

The longitudinal pattern of alcohol-related injury in a college population: emergency department data compared to self-reported data.

Background: Self-report survey is the most common method of obtaining information from college students on substance use and its consequences. However, the validity and reliability of self-report data, especially in relationship to harmful substance use, is frequently called into question.

Objectives: To establish the convergent validity of self-reported alcohol-related injury data and data from a university-affiliated hospital Emergency Department (ED) across a seven year period.

Using a logic model to relate the strategic to the tactical in program planning and evaluation: an illustration based on social norms interventions.

Logic models are a ubiquitous tool for specifying the tactics--including implementation and evaluation--of interventions in the public health, health and social behaviors arenas. Similarly, social norms interventions are a common strategy, particularly in college settings, to address hazardous drinking and other dangerous or asocial behaviors. This paper illustrates an extension of logic models to include strategic as well as tactical components, using a specific example developed for social norms interventions.

Legal ages for purchase and consumption of alcohol and heavy drinking among college students in Canada, Europe, and the United States.

Heavy drinking and associated negative consequences remain a serious problem among college students. In a secondary analysis of data from two published study, the authors examine the correlation between minimum legal age to purchase and/or consume alcohol and rates of heavy drinking among college students in 22 countries. The published studies use identical definitions of heavy drinking and similar methodologies.

Declining negative consequences related to alcohol misuse among students exposed to a social norms marketing intervention on a college campus.

Objective: The authors examined whether alcohol-related negative consequences decreased among students exposed to an intervention.

Participants: Beginning in 1999, approximately 2,500 randomly selected undergraduates from a 4-year US university annually participated in a Web-based survey over 6 years.

Methods: The educational intervention used social norms initiatives.

Estimated blood alcohol concentration correlation with self-reported negative consequences among college students using alcohol.

Objective: The estimated blood alcohol concentration (eBAC) is a potentially useful index of alcohol-induced intoxication and impairment. This study investigates the association of the eBAC with negative consequences associated with alcohol use.

Method: Self-reported negative consequences were assessed using a stratified random sampling of 4,708 undergraduate students at a public university with a total enrollment of 12,550.