Alcohol Use Assessments at Cal Poly Pomona

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Alcohol Use Assessments at Cal Poly Pomona

• Campus Needs
• Individual Needs
• Program Evaluation

Jim Grizzell, MBA, MA, CHES
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Campus Needs Assessments

• Core Alcohol Surveys
• National College Health Assessment
• Health Risk Appraisal

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9-Year Trend at Cal Poly PomonaNo High Risk
Drinking in Past 2-Weeks
Green line on all slides is Healthy People and
Campus 2010 Target

• Blue 8 Health Risk Appraisal data
• Brown 3 Core (94, 96, 01) 1 NCHA (00)
  data
• Green Healthy People 2010 Objective at 20

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Social Norms Experience at Northern Illinois
University
NIU actual safer drinking
NIU perceived safer drinking
All college actual safer drinking
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9-Year Trend at Cal Poly PomonaHigh Risk
Drinking in Past 2-Weeks

• Blue 8 Health Risk Appraisal data
• Brown 3 Core (94, 96, 01) 1 NCHA (00)
  data
• Green Healthy People 2010 Objective at 20

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Individual Needs Assessments

• CHUG
• Study Well Health Assessment
• Health Risk Appraisal
• CAGE
• AlcoholEdu

• Screening for Mental Health
• Alcohol 101
• BACCHUS GAMMA Alcohol Response-Ability

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Check Up to Go (CHUG)No Touch Feedback
Interventions

• Quantity and Frequency
• BAC
• Population comparisons
• Topics
• Amount and percent of income spent on alcohol
• Tolerance level
• Consequences
• Family risk score

• Additional Topics
• Drove/rode with intoxicated?
• Smoker?
• Norm estimates, correct percentages
• Explanation, advice, referral information
• Other novel information comparisons
• e.g., cheeseburgers Camaros

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Study 1. Surprised by Feedback
Source Walters, Bennett Miller (2000)
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Applications of Feedback

• Adjunct to disciplinary class
• do mailed after attendance
• Stand-alone intervention
• students identified by SHS or CAPS who refuse
  face-to-face treatment
• Screen and assess over phone
• Part of assessment package for pledges
• those not yet residing in the Greek house

Source Walters (2002)
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Applications of Feedback

• Freshman orientation classes
• Other high-risk groups who dont self-volunteer
• Athletes
• student government
• Electronic/web-based possibilities
• Novel information and comparisons
• Cheeseburgers Camaros

Source Walters (2002)
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Whats Wrong With Our Groups?

• Size of groups
• individual change talk goes unnoticed
• Deviant behavior
• reinforced through laughter, inattention, etc.
• Dishonest discussion of risks benefits
  associated with drinking.
• The high-fivers and the one bad seed
• A renorming of
• discrepant information
• positive meaning attached to deviancy

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Study 4. What This Study Adds

• Avoid aggregating high-risk (or coerced)
  participants into groups
• Keep groups small to minimize resistance
• Keep feedback separate and private (maximizes
  discrepancy)
• Screen for readiness stage match groups
• Use two facilitators
• while one is rolling with resistance
• the other is affirming talk for change

Source Walters, Ogle, Martin (2002)
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Individual Needs Assessments

• CHUG
• Study Well Health Assessment
• Health Risk Appraisal
• CAGE
• AlcoholEdu

• Screening for Mental Health
• Alcohol 101
• BACCHUS GAMMA Alcohol Response-Ability

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Program Evaluation

• Quality Maintenance Improvement
• Changes in Perception
• Implementation
• Impact
• 21st Birthday Card
• CSU Customer Satisfaction

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Changes in Perception

• Prior to being given a health risk appraisal
  that students were informed by a written
  statement on classroom chalk boards that 72 of
  Cal Poly Pomona students drink 0 or 1 alcoholic
  drinks per week.
• Facts about Cal Poly student drug use is
  available consistently for athletes to view on
  bulletin boards in Kellogg Gym coaches' offices
  and the athletic training room.

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Program Implementation
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Its OK Not to DrinkSocial Norms Campaign
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21st Birthday Drinking
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Received Information on Alcohol Use Prevention
In the past year at average CSU 7 CSU
Customer Satisfaction Survey, 2001
Ever while at average CSU 22 CSU Customer
Satisfaction Survey, 2001 _____________ National
Data 48 National College Health Assessment, 2000
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Information Receipt andHealth Impediments to
Learning
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Information Receipt andHealth Impediments to
Learning
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Keep It In Perspective

• Access to health care
• Percent with insurance
• All people in US 83
• College students 83
• CPP students 65
• Blood pressure checked in past 2 yrs
• All people in US 90
• College students 90
• CPP students 81

• Health reasons for low grades
• Relationship difficulties
• College students 3.4
• CPP students 5.1
• Sleep difficulties
• College students 73
• CPP students 78
• Mental health
• Attempted Suicide
• College students 1.5
• CPP students 2.8

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The End