# Alcohol and Violence Prevention for College Students

> **NIH NIH R34** · GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $162,268

## Abstract

PROJECT ABSTRACT
The overarching goal of this Planning Grant (R34) is to conduct a Stage IA and IB pilot of a behavioral
intervention for heavy episodic drinking (HED) and violence among college students. In response to high rates
of violence on college campuses, federal guidelines recommend universal violence prevention. However,
violence prevention is less effective for individuals who engage in HED. It is imperative to develop and test
interventions aligned with theoretically-based and evidence-based models, to target the role of alcohol in
sexual assault, provide personalized information relevant to risk and protective factors for HED and violence,
and to do so using a mode of delivery that is highly scalable (i.e., mHealth) to address the research-practice
gap in college violence prevention. The current project includes the following aims: 1) to modify alcohol and
violence prevention content to a personalized mHealth format that addresses risk factors; 2) to obtain usability
of the intervention among college students who engage in HED to incorporate user feedback into the
intervention content; and 3) to randomize students who engage in HED to an integrated personalized mHealth
alcohol and violence prevention program or to a control condition to observe effect sizes and estimate the
variability using a 3-month follow-up for designing a larger randomized controlled trial grant application. By
accomplishing these aims, we will have established the research team, programming, and feasibility of the
research protocol for a large scale, grant application to test the efficacy of this personalized integrated mHealth
intervention. This research has the potential to reduce alcohol use among young adults as well as reduce
violence among high-risk groups, thereby meeting both NIAAA and national priorities.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9878736
- **Project number:** 5R34AA025691-04
- **Recipient organization:** GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Amanda Katherine Gilmore
- **Activity code:** R34 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $162,268
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-03-15 → 2022-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9878736

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9878736, Alcohol and Violence Prevention for College Students (5R34AA025691-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9878736. Licensed CC0.

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