TY - JOUR
T1 - Efficacy of a brief image-based multiple-behavior intervention for college students
AU - Werch, Chudley E.
AU - Moore, Michele J.
AU - Bian, Hui
AU - DiClemente, Carlo C.
AU - Ames, Steven C.
AU - Weiler, Robert M.
AU - Thombs, Dennis
AU - Pokorny, Steven B.
AU - Huang, I. Chan
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This manuscript was supported in part by funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (grant #DA018872). We thank Dr. Fred Beck, MD, who made it possible to use the campus medical services to recruit students, and Drs. Pamela Chally, Ph.D., and Judy Perkin, Ph.D., who permitted us to implement the intervention in the Brooks College of Health. We also thank Elizabeth Breting, Heather Frost, and Heather Boggess for their assistance in implementing this study.
PY - 2008/10
Y1 - 2008/10
N2 - Background: Epidemiologic data indicate most adolescents and adults experience multiple, simultaneous risk behaviors. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the efficacy of a brief image-based multiple-behavior intervention (MBI) for college students. Methods: A total of 303 college students were randomly assigned to: (1) a brief MBI or (2) a standard care control, with a 3-month postintervention follow-up. Results: Omnibus treatment by time multivariate analysis of variance interactions were significant for three of six behavior groupings, with improvements for college students receiving the brief MBI on alcohol consumption behaviors, F(6, 261) = 2.73, p = 0.01, marijuana-use behaviors, F(4, 278) = 3.18, p = 0.01, and health-related quality of life, F(5, 277) = 2.80, p = 0.02, but not cigarette use, exercise, and nutrition behaviors. Participants receiving the brief MBI also got more sleep, F(1, 281) = 9.49, p = 0.00, than those in the standard care control. Conclusions: A brief image-based multiple-behavior intervention may be useful in influencing a number of critical health habits and health-related quality-of-life indicators of college students.
AB - Background: Epidemiologic data indicate most adolescents and adults experience multiple, simultaneous risk behaviors. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the efficacy of a brief image-based multiple-behavior intervention (MBI) for college students. Methods: A total of 303 college students were randomly assigned to: (1) a brief MBI or (2) a standard care control, with a 3-month postintervention follow-up. Results: Omnibus treatment by time multivariate analysis of variance interactions were significant for three of six behavior groupings, with improvements for college students receiving the brief MBI on alcohol consumption behaviors, F(6, 261) = 2.73, p = 0.01, marijuana-use behaviors, F(4, 278) = 3.18, p = 0.01, and health-related quality of life, F(5, 277) = 2.80, p = 0.02, but not cigarette use, exercise, and nutrition behaviors. Participants receiving the brief MBI also got more sleep, F(1, 281) = 9.49, p = 0.00, than those in the standard care control. Conclusions: A brief image-based multiple-behavior intervention may be useful in influencing a number of critical health habits and health-related quality-of-life indicators of college students.
KW - Brief intervention
KW - College students
KW - Drug use
KW - Health quality of life
KW - Image
KW - Multiple-behavior intervention
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U2 - 10.1007/s12160-008-9055-6
DO - 10.1007/s12160-008-9055-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 18800217
AN - SCOPUS:55549098130
SN - 0883-6612
VL - 36
SP - 149
EP - 157
JO - Annals of Behavioral Medicine
JF - Annals of Behavioral Medicine
IS - 2
ER -