Age of Onset and Delay to First Intoxication: College Students Citation: Morean, M. E., Corbin, W. R., & Fromme, K. (2012). Age of first use and delay to first intoxication in relation to trajectories of heavy drinking and alcohol‐related problems during emerging adulthood. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 36(11), 1991-1999. Results An earlier AO and/or [...]
October 6 Deadline The call for proposals is open until October 6 for the three conferences that NASPA holds in conjunction: Alcohol and Other Drugs Prevention; Violence Prevention; and Mental Health. The combined conference will take place on January 11-13, 2015 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland. Early bird registration [...]
A study published in the September issue of Addictive Behaviors found "...that young people in five schools in the UK do overestimate the smoking behaviour of their peers, particularly in areas with high smoking prevalence in the community surrounding the school. " Click HERE to link to the study by Elsey, Owiredu, Thomson et al.: Do Children [...]
In the first weekly report of influenza activity on campuses in the College Health Surveillance Network, 5 of 13 schools (39%) report minimal flu cases. No school or region has crossed the threshold of a CDC defined outbreak. Two schools, one in Florida, and one in New York, had reported positive flu tests confirming influenza on [...]
Specific diagnostic categories among categories of students We analyzed the frequency of the five most common diagnostic categories (Message 2) among categories of students and thought it might be interesting to highlight a few trends that emerged from the data. Rates are described numerically as annual rate per 100 enrolled students in a category, so [...]
Mental health related diagnoses were the fifth most common diagnostic category (103,844 patients) and had the highest overall number of visits per patient (4.93). The top 10 mental health diagnoses are rank ordered below. The average visits per patient varied from 2.01 for drug abuse and 3.66 for alcohol disorders to 6.51 for personality disorders [...]
Epidemiology: In 41 months, 802,255 patients had 4.17 Million visits to student health centers The average visits per patient is 5.20 The top 10 diagnostic categories for the 802,000 individuals seen over 41 months are rank ordered below. Since individuals can have more than one diagnosis, the total of percentages is greater than 100. Average [...]
The College Health Surveillance Network (CHSN) has been collecting medical data on college students since January 1, 2011. We wanted to share some highlights of the findings. Demographics: Currently 23 schools, representing 730,800 enrolled students,participate in CHSN. The demographics of the CHSN sample population closely match those of the 108 four year very high research [...]
Innocent novelty or paraphernalia? Social norms marketing is a subset of social marketing, which in turn is a specialized branch of marketing. So we are interested in all things marketing, particularly when it involves alcohol, college students, the colleges themselves and delivery of alcohol in a way that tends to be unique to college students. [...]
There’s new research publications every day on college alcohol use and other college health issues. It’s hard to keep up! Here are some new articles from our PubMed RSS feed (and beyond) that look very interesting. Apodaca, T. R., Borsari, B., Jackson, K. M., Magill, M., Longabaugh, R., Mastroleo, N. R., & Barnett, N. P. (2014). Sustain [...]
