IPRU Alcohol Research Project Demonstration URLs

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Surveys of Tertiary student alcohol consumption and other health issues

The following are links to demonstration versions of the websites used for surveys conducted at university campuses in 2001-2009.

Alcohol Use Survey 2001, 2002

http://ipru3.otago.ac.nz/demo/ausdemo/

The Alcohol Use Survey involved a random sample of 1564 University of Otago students (82% response) in 2002.

Key findings are reported in:

Kypri K, Langley JD, Stephenson SCR (2005). Episode-centred analysis of drinking to intoxication in university students. Alcohol and Alcoholism 40(5)447-452

Kypri K, Gallagher S & Cashell-Smith M  (2004). An Internet-based survey method for college student drinking research. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 76 (1) 45-53

Kypri K, Langley JD, & Stephenson S (2004). Assessment of non-response bias in an Internet survey of alcohol use. Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, 28(4) 630-4

McGee R & Kypri K (2004). Alcohol-related problems experienced by university students in New Zealand. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 28 (4) 321-3

Langley JD, Kypri K, Stephenson S (2003). Secondhand effects of alcohol use among university students:

Computerised survey. British Medical Journal 327:1023-4

Kypri K Saunders JB & Gallagher S (2003). Acceptability of various methods of screening and brief intervention for tertiary student hazardous drinking. Alcohol & Alcoholism 38(6) 626-8

Kypri K & Langley JD (2003). Perceived norms and their relation to university student drinking. Journal of Studies on Alcohol 64(6) 829-34

There was also a pilot project in 2001 (N=160), involving an experiment examining the effects of various incentives to encourage participation:

Kypri K & Gallagher S (2003). Incentives to increase participation in an Internet alcohol survey: A controlled experiment. Alcohol & Alcoholism 38(5) 437-41

Funding: Health Research Council (NZ), Alcohol Advisor Council (NZ)

Residential College Alcohol Surveys

In each survey we invited every resident living in Dunedin residential colleges to participate. Questions on alcohol consumption, knowledge of college alcohol rules, and experiences and perceptions regarding the enforcement of rules were asked in both surveys.

2004

http://ipru3.otago.ac.nz/demo/halls2004/

The 2004 survey involved 1700 students (response rate: 68%) from 12 residential colleges at the University of Otago. Findings are reported in:

Kypri K, Paschall MJ, Maclennan B, Langley J (2007). Intoxication by drinking location: a web-based diary study in a New Zealand university community. Addictive Behaviors 32(11) 2586-2596

Funding: Alcohol Advisory Council (NZ)
2014

http://ipru3.otago.ac.nz/demo/halls2014/

The 2014 survey involved 1941 students (response rate: 60%) from 14 residential colleges at the University of Otago.

Funding: Vice-Chancellor's Office and Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago.

National tertiary student health surveys

In each national survey, we sought to randomly select and invite 430 Maori and 430 non-Maori students from each university enrolment list to participate. A set of core questions were repeated in all three surveys and additional items covering a range of domains were examined in each survey.

2005

http://ipru3.otago.ac.nz/demo/national2005/

The 2005 survey involved 5 universities (including 6 campuses) and 6 polytechnic colleges.

2007

https://ipru3.otago.ac.nz/demo/national2007/

The 2007 survey involved 6 universities (including 8 campuses).

2009

https://ipru3.otago.ac.nz/demo/national2009/

The 2009 survey involved 7 universities (including 9 campuses).

Key published papers reporting findings from these surveys:

Kypri K, Samaranayaka A, Connor J, Langley J, Maclennan B (2011). Non-response bias in a web-based health behaviour survey of New Zealand tertiary students. Preventive Medicine 53 (2011) 274–27.

Connor J, Kypri K, Bell M, Cousins K (2011). Alcohol involvement in aggression between intimate partners in New Zealand: a national cross-sectional study. BMJ Open doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000065

Kypri K, Paschall MJ, Langley J et al. (2010). The role of drinking locations in university student drinking: Findings from a national web-based survey. Drug & Alcohol Dependence 111(1-2):38-43

Connor J, Gray A. Kypri K (2010). Drinking history, current drinking and problematic sexual experiences among university students. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 34, 5 487-494

Kypri K, Paschall MJ, Langley JD, Baxter J, Cashell-Smith M and Bordeaux B (2009). Drinking and alcohol-related harm among New Zealand university students: Findings from a national web-based survey. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 33(2) 307-14

Kypri, K., Bell, M., Hay, G. and Baxter, J. (2008) Alcohol outlet density and university student drinking: a national study. Addiction, 103(7)1131–8

Funding: Health Research Council (NZ), Alcohol Advisor Council (NZ)

2013

https://ipru3.otago.ac.nz/demo/national2013/

The 2013 survey involved 5 universities.

Web-based screening and brief intervention (e-SBI)

The following are links to demonstration versions of the websites used in randomised controlled trials of e-SBI.

e-SBI Pilot trial (2002)

http://ipru3.otago.ac.nz/demo/sbi1demo/

This is the e-SBI instrument for the pilot trial of e-SBI (N=104), conducted in 2002 in the University of Otago Student Health Service, and reported in the following papers:

Funding: Health Research Council (NZ), Alcohol Advisor Council (NZ)

e-SBI Main trial (2003-4)

http://ipru3.otago.ac.nz/demo/esbi2003demo/

This is the e-SBI instrument for the four-arm main trial of e-SBI (N=576), conducted in 2003-4 in the University of Otago Student Health Service, and reported in the following papers:

Kypri K, Langley J, Saunders JB et al (2008). Randomized controlled trial of web-based alcohol screening and brief intervention in primary care. Archives of Internal Medicine 168(5)530-6

Kypri K, Langley JD, Saunders JB et al. (2007). Assessment may conceal therapeutic benefit: findings from a randomized controlled trial for hazardous drinking. Addiction 102(1) 62-70

Kypri K, Stephenson S, Langley JD et al (2005). Computerised screening for hazardous drinking in primary care. New Zealand Medical Journal 118(1124)1-10

Funding: Health Research Council (NZ), Alcohol Advisor Council (NZ)

e-SBI for multiple risk behaviours (2003)

http://ipru3.otago.ac.nz/demo/heartdemo/

This is the e-SBI instrument for the three-arm main trial of e-SBI (N=218), conducted in 2003 in the University of Otago Student Health Service, and reported in:

Kypri K & McAnally H (2005). Randomized controlled trial of a web-based primary care intervention for multiple health risk behaviours. Preventive Medicine 41(3)761-766

Funding: Heart Foundation of New Zealand

THRIVE (2007)

http://lamp.health.curtin.edu.au/thrive/baselinetest.php

THIRVE (Tertiary Health Research Intervention Via E-mail) is not hosted on the IPRU website but for the sake of explaining the evolution of e-SBI it is included here. THRIVE was a two-arm RCT involving 2435 undergraduates from Curtin University recruited via e-mail to complete a screening survey. It represents a departure from primary healthcare based screening, to a pro-active, “case finding” approach which was used in subsequent research. The trial is reported in:

Kypri K, Hallett J, et al (2009). Randomised controlled trial of proactive web-based alcohol screening and brief intervention for university students. Archives of Internal Medicine 169(16)1508-1514

The development of the THRIVE instrument is reported in:

Hallett J, Maycock B, Kypri K et al. (2009) Development of a web-based alcohol intervention for university students: processes and challenges. Drug & Alcohol Review 28(1)31-39

e-SBINZ trials (2010)

http://ipru3.otago.ac.nz/limesurvey/index.php/53122

The e-SBINZ trials were two RCTs conducted in parallel at seven New Zealand universities in 2010. They involved 1789 Maori students and 3422 non-Maori students, identified via on-line screening and randomised to e-SBI or screening alone (control), as in the THRIVE trial. The protocol for the trials is available at:

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/10/781

Findings are yet to be reported.

Funding: Alcohol Advisor Council (NZ)