Examining the social ecology of a bar-crawl: An exploratory pilot study.

ABSTRACT: Many of the problems associated with alcohol occur after a single drinking event (e.g. drink driving, assault). These acute alcohol problems have a huge global impact and account for a large percentage of unintentional and intentional injuries in the world. Nonetheless, alcohol research and preventive interventions rarely focus on drinking at the event-level since drinking events are complex, dynamic, and methodologically challenging to observe. This exploratory study provides an example of how event-level data may be collected, analyzed, and interpreted. The drinking behavior of twenty undergraduate students enrolled at a large Midwestern public university was observed during a single bar crawl event that is organized by students annually. Alcohol use was monitored with transdermal alcoho

SUBMITTER: Clapp JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5617212 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature