Citation

O'Brien MC, Champion HLO, D'Agostino RB, Martin BA, McCoy TP, Wolfson M, DuRant R. Int. Q. Community Health Educ. 2005; 25(3): 295-305.

Affiliation

Department of Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, North Carolina 27157, USA. mobrien@wfubmc.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.2190/G542-W332-GG21-056U

PMID

17686749

Abstract

While there is optimism about an environmental management approach that utilizes campus-community coalitions to reduce levels of high-risk drinking, the readiness of schools to implement such an approach is unknown. We surveyed 100 colleges regarding their readiness based on eight factors: existence of a task force to address alcohol use on campus; the inclusion of the college/university President; inclusion of a community representative; frequent meetings; external funding to address alcohol use; previous environmental training; changes implemented as a result of environmental training; and a plan to institute environmental training in the future. Having an alcohol task force or coalition (57%) was associated with participation by the president and/or community representative on the task force, having extramural funding to address high-risk drinking, training in environmental management, implementation of changes after the training, plans for future training, school size, Greek organizations on campus, and being a state university.

Language: en