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king on campus,” said Michael, who also is associate director of clinical services in Appalachian’s Institute for Health and Human Services.

“A lot of the practitioners and academicians on campus knew the motivational interviewing model and that it had a pretty good literature base, but it had never been tested in a group format,” Michael said.

Because college students’ drinking behavior tends to diminish over time as students progress through college, the researchers decided to target the higher risk, younger college student.

They used the motivational interviewing technique with students in the university’s Freshman Seminar program. During two 75-minute class sessions, they talked with students about their goals and values and helped the students recognize discrepancies between their current behavior and their values.

A total of 91 freshmen participated in the study. Of that number 47 were in MI group prevention classes while 44 were in a control group.

“We didn’t think that this type of intervention would be terribly potent in a group format,” Michael said. “We were surprised to find that students who had the intervention consumed fewer drinks and became intoxicated less often than the control group.”

Students who previously had reported getting drunk four to five times a month reported 1.5 fewer episodes of intoxication in a 30- to 45-day period following the MI sessions. They also reported consuming 4.5 fewer drinks during that period.

“It’s a modest change,” Michael said of the results. “We’re not saying that this is a panacea, but reducing episodes of intoxication by even one a month is good. Whether these findings will hold up over time, we don’t know yet.”

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