Universities

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The role of mass media campaigns in reducing high-risk drinking among college students.

OBJECTIVE: This article categorizes and describes current media campaigns to reduce college student drinking, reviews key principles of campaign design and outlines recommendations for future campaigns. METHOD: The article describes three types of media ...
William DeJong (J Stud Alcohol Suppl, 200203)
role-mass-media-campaigns-reducing-high-risk-drinking-college-students.asp

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Magnitude of alcohol-related mortality and morbidity among U.S. college students ages 18-24.

OBJECTIVE: This report estimates the numbers of 18-24 year old United States college students who annually experience alcohol-related deaths, injuries and other health problems. METHOD: We examined traffic and unintentional injury deaths in 1998 reported ...
Ralph W Hingson, Timothy Heeren, Ronda C Zakocs, Andrea Kopstein, Henry Wechsler (J Stud Alcohol, 200203)
magnitude-alcohol-related-mortality-morbidity-u-s-college-students.asp

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A typology for campus-based alcohol prevention: moving toward environmental management strategies.

OBJECTIVE: This article outlines a typology of programs and policies for preventing and treating campus-based alcohol-related problems, reviews recent case studies showing the promise of campus-based environmental management strategies and reports ...
William DeJong, Linda M Langford (J Stud Alcohol Suppl, 200203)
typology-campus-based-alcohol-prevention-moving-toward-environmental.asp

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Symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder in a sample of Iranian patients.

BACKGROUND: Characteristic features of the obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) occur with remarkable consistency in different cultural settings. The content of symptoms, however, seems to vary across cultures. AIMS: To examine the content of symptoms in ...
Habibollah Ghassemzadeh, Ramin Mojtabai, Akram Khamseh, Nargess Ebrahimkhani, Arab-Ali Issazadegan, Zahra Saif-Nobakht (Int J Soc Psychiatry, 200203)
symptoms-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-sample-iranian-patients.asp

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Identification, prevention and treatment: a review of individual-focused strategies to reduce problematic alcohol consumption by college students.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to review and assess the existing body of literature on individually focused prevention and treatment approaches for college student drinking. METHOD: Studies that evaluate the overall efficacy of an approach by ...
Mary E Larimer, Jessica M Cronce (J Stud Alcohol Suppl, 200203)
identification-prevention-treatment-review-individual-focused.asp

226.

College factors that influence drinking.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to examine the aspects of collegiate environments, rather than student characteristics, that influence drinking. Unfortunately, the existing literature is scant on this topic. METHOD: A literature review of ...
Cheryl A Presley, Philip W Meilman, Jami S Leichliter (J Stud Alcohol Suppl, 200203)
college-factors-influence-drinking.asp

227.

A macro perspective of non-clinical student internship programs.

Internships are advantageous to both health care organizations and students. Intern employers benefit in many ways such as completing meaningful backlogged projects, savings on benefits, using internships as a recruiting tool, and becoming a partner in ...
Peggy Anderson, Marcia Pulich, James Sisak (Health Care Manag (Frederick), 200203)
macro-perspective-non-clinical-student-internship-programs.asp

228.

Student factors: understanding individual variation in college drinking.

OBJECTIVE: Research on individual differences in drinking rates and associated problems among college students is reviewed. METHOD: Studies are included if completed within U.S. college and university samples and found in published scientific literature ...
John S Baer (J Stud Alcohol Suppl, 200203)
student-factors-understanding-individual-variation-college-drinking.asp

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Environmental policies to reduce college drinking: options and research findings.

OBJECTIVE: The goal of this article is to provide an overview of environmental strategies that may reduce college drinking. Drinking behavior is influenced by many environmental factors, including messages in the media, community norms and attitudes, ...
Traci L Toomey, Alexander C Wagenaar (J Stud Alcohol Suppl, 200203)
environmental-policies-reduce-college-drinking-options-research.asp

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Psychological distress among students from five universities in Sri Lanka.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the proportion of university students that are psychologically distressed when compared to an age and sex matched population sample and to describe the factors that may contribute to their distress. DESIGN: A cross-sectional ...
K A L A Kuruppuarachchi, K A J M Kuruppuarachchi, S Wijerathne, S S Williams (Ceylon Med J, 200203)
psychological-distress-students-five-universities-sri-lanka.asp