Exercise as an intervention for sedentary hazardous drinking college students: A pilot study
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Participants
Participants were 31 sedentary hazardous drinking college students. Individuals were recruited via screening efforts, flyers posted on campus, and email list-serve announcements. As few students voluntarily seek alcohol-reducing interventions, the ads focused on recruitment of individuals who desired to become more physically active. A screening questionnaire was administered in university common areas, study information sessions, and over the telephone. The screen consisted of demographics,
Results
As shown in Fig. 1, 352 individuals were screened of whom 52 (14.8%) were deemed potentially eligible participants. Of those 52 individuals, 31 (59.6%) were eligible, signed informed consent, and randomized to an intervention condition, which represented 8.8% of all individuals screened. Less than 15% of potentially eligible individuals were not interested in participating in the study.
Table 1 shows baseline characteristics for participants randomized to each treatment condition. No significant
Discussion
Results from this pilot study suggest that sedentary hazardous drinking college students are interested in participating in an exercise intervention and will engage in interventions that seek to facilitate initiation and maintenance of exercise. Moreover, adding CM to MET was successful in increasing the self-reported frequency of exercising, but the addition of CM did not improve any other self-report or objective indices of exercise relative to MET alone. On average, participants exercised
Acknowledgments
This research and preparation of this report was funded by National Institutes of Health Grants P60-AA-003510 and R21-AA-017717.
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