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The Hazardous Drinking Games Measure (HDGM): a multi-site implementation.

Brian Borsari¹, Colleen Peterson, Byron L Zamboanga

¹Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences Service, Providence VA Medical Center , RI , USA .

The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

|September 6, 2014

Summary

The new Hazardous Drinking Games Measure (HDGM) assesses college student participation in drinking games, including alcohol consumption and negative consequences. While reliable, it did not predict risky drinking beyond existing measures.

Keywords:

Alcohol-related problems assessment college students drinking games

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Area of Science:

Public Health
Psychology
Substance Abuse Research

Background:

College student drinking games correlate with higher alcohol consumption and related problems.
Current assessments of drinking games are often self-developed and lack comprehensiveness.

Purpose of the Study:

Introduce the Hazardous Drinking Games Measure (HDGM) as a novel, comprehensive tool for assessing drinking game participation.
Evaluate the HDGM's ability to measure alcohol intake, game types, and negative outcomes associated with drinking games.

Main Methods:

Exploratory analyses were conducted on data from 1002 college students who completed the HDGM and other self-report drinking questionnaires.
The study utilized three distinct samples of college students to validate the measure.

Main Results:

The HDGM demonstrates initial evidence of good content validity, criterion-related validity, and test-retest reliability in college students.
Exploratory analyses indicated the HDGM captures the complexities of drinking game participation.
The HDGM did not predict risky drinking beyond standard measures like drinks per week or alcohol-related problems.

Conclusions:

The HDGM shows potential utility for campus-wide assessments of drinking game behaviors.
Integrating the HDGM into prevention and intervention programs can provide game-specific feedback.
Further research may be needed to enhance the HDGM's predictive power for risky drinking behaviors.