Project INTEGRATE: An integrative study of brief alcohol interventions for college students.

ABSTRACT: This article provides an overview of a study that synthesizes multiple, independently collected alcohol intervention studies for college students into a single, multisite longitudinal data set. This research embraced innovative analytic strategies (i.e., integrative data analysis or meta-analysis using individual participant-level data), with the overall goal of answering research questions that are difficult to address in individual studies such as moderation analysis, while providing a built-in replication for the reported efficacy of brief motivational interventions for college students. Data were pooled across 24 intervention studies, of which 21 included a comparison or control condition and all included one or more treatment conditions. This yielded a sample of 12,630 participants (4

SUBMITTER: Mun EY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4388772 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature