Alcohol interventions for mandated college students: A meta-analytic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

When college students violate campus alcohol policies, they typically receive disciplinary sanctions that include alcohol education or counseling. This meta-analysis evaluated the efficacy of these "mandated interventions" to prevent future alcohol misuse.

Method

Studies were included if they evaluated an individual- or group-level intervention, sampled students mandated to an alcohol program, used a pretest-posttest design, and assessed alcohol use as an outcome. Thirty-one studies with 68 separate interventions (N = 8,621 participants; 35% women; 85% White) were coded by independent raters with respect to sample, design, methodological features, and intervention content; the raters also calculated weighted mean effect sizes, using random-effects models. A priori

SUBMITTER: Carey KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4919145 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature