Efficacy of alcohol interventions for first-year college students: a meta-analytic review of randomized controlled trials.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Alcohol use established during the first-year of college can result in adverse consequences during the college years and beyond. In this meta-analysis, we evaluated the efficacy of interventions to prevent alcohol misuse by first-year college students.

Method

Studies were included if the study reported an individual- or group-level intervention using a randomized controlled trial, targeted 1st-year college students, and assessed alcohol use. Forty-one studies with 62 separate interventions (N = 24,294; 57% women; 77% White) were included. Independent raters coded sample, design, methodological features, and intervention content. Weighted mean effect sizes, using fixed- and random-effects models, were calculated. Potential moderators, determined a priori, were exami

SUBMITTER: Scott-Sheldon LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3987817 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature