# Social Norms & Skills Training: Motivating Campus Change

> **NIH NIH R37** · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · 2022 · $388,750

## Abstract

This supplement in response to the ADVANCE NOSI seeks to extend our parent RCT designed to reduce
alcohol use and related consequences among college students through evaluating sequential vs simultaneous
presentation of personalized feedback intervention (PFI) modules, with or without text message boosters to
address 5 high-risk drinking events (HRDE). The parent RCT sample (N=1000) includes significant diversity,
but was not designed to address unique health disparities related to alcohol use and response to preventive
interventions among students with minoritized sexual or gender identities (SGM). SGM YA are at risk for
alcohol-related health disparities and understudied in prevention trials. The current supplement seeks to
increase inclusion of SGM students in our prevention trial to elucidate factors impacting efficacy of the parent
PFI for SGM students and enhance relevance, generalizability, and fit of our PFI materials for SGM students.
We will utilize mixed methods and existing and new data to determine what adaptations of existing PFI
materials may be needed to address unique needs of SGM students, informed by our prior experiences and
guidelines for intervention adaptation. We will then replicate aspects of the parent RCT with a new sample of
SGM students, addressing both shared (spring break) and tailored (Pride events) HRDE to enable comparison
of adapted to standard PFI and potential extensions to SGM-specific HRDE. Supplemental aims include: 1)
Expand assessment of key variables to better characterize and understand experiences of SGM students in
the parent RCT sample. We will add broader assessment of sexual and gender diversity (e.g., identity,
attraction, behavior, gender expression) for existing participants in our RCT as well as expand assessment of
alcohol norm salience and HRDE to better capture experiences relevant to SGM students. 2) Conduct
secondary analyses of moderators of PFI efficacy for SGM students. Using existing data, analyses will focus
on individual and contextual moderators of PFI efficacy for SGM students in the parent RCT, with particular
attention to aspects of comorbidity, social context, and personal characteristics related to SGM identity. 3)
Collect new quantitative and qualitative data to further explore and address adaptation to enhance PFI for
SGM students. We will utilize online and community outreach strategies to recruit 300 SGM students for a
survey of demographics, alcohol use/consequences, perceived norms, other socio-cognitive and contextual
influences, and HRDE. A purposive sample of existing and newly recruited SGM (N~25) will complete rapid
prototyping interviews (RPI) to inform any necessary adaptations of PFI components. 4) Extend the parent
RCT to further evaluate efficacy of PFI for SGM students. Drawing from the Aim 3 survey sample, we will
recruit and randomly assign SGD students to the sequential + text condition (n=150) or the AOC condition
(n=100), and will test booster messages for...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10672719
- **Project number:** 3R37AA012547-15S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
- **Principal Investigator:** MARY E. LARIMER
- **Activity code:** R37 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $388,750
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2022-09-15 → 2023-07-14

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10672719

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10672719, Social Norms & Skills Training: Motivating Campus Change (3R37AA012547-15S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-01 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10672719. Licensed CC0.

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