tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học: " The epidemiology of college alcohol and gambling policies"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: The epidemiology of college alcohol and gambling policies | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Research Open Access The epidemiology of college alcohol and gambling policies Howard J Shaffer Anthony N Donato Richard A LaBrie Rachel C Kidman and Debi A LaPlante Address Harvard Medical School Division on Addictions The Landmark Center 401 Park Drive 2nd Floor East Boston MA 02215 USA Email Howard J Shaffer - howard_shaffer@ AnthonyN Donato - andonato@ Richard A LaBrie - richard_labrie@ Rachel C Kidman - rachel_kidman@ Debi A LaPlante - debi_laplante@ Corresponding author Published 09 February 2005 Harm Reduction Journal 2005 2 1 doi 1477-7517-2-1 Received 13 October 2004 Accepted 09 February 2005 This article is available from http content 2 1 1 2005 Shaffer et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background This article reports the first national assessment of patterns of drinking and gambling-related rulemaking on college campuses . punitive versus recovery oriented . Analyses relating school policies to known school rates of drinking or gambling identified potentially influential policies. These results can inform and encourage the development of guidelines or best practices upon which schools can base future policy. Methods The college policy information was collected from handbooks Web sites and supplemental materials of 119 scientifically selected colleges included in the fourth 2001 Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study CAS . A coding instrument of 40 items measured the scope and focus of school alcohol and gambling policies. This instrument included items to measure the presence of specific policies and establish whether the .