Duration: 2018 - Present
Partners: University of Minnesota
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High-intensity drinking (consuming 10+ drinks in a row) among young adults has recently been acknowledged as a serious health problem that requires urgent research attention. During the initial grant period (R01AA023504) we documented prevalence, predictors, and developmental change in retrospective recall of any past 2-week high-intensity drinking from ages 18 to 30 through secondary data analysis of the national Monitoring the Future (MTF) study.
Our goal in this project is to collect new intensive longitudinal data to examine occasion-specific predictors and consequences of binge and high-intensity drinking at the period of the lifespan (ages 19-22) where alcohol use is the greatest. Information on occasion-specific predictors and short- and long-term consequences of binge and high-intensity drinking is needed to identify the motives, contexts, and public health impacts that differentiate these heavy levels of alcohol consumption.
Building on our recent findings that used biennial data from the nationally representative Monitoring the Future (MTF) study, we will conduct new primary longitudinal data collection from a national sample of high school students followed into young adulthood.
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University of Minnesota
Duration
2018 - Present