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NIH grant 1R01AA033128-01: Understanding Available Resources and Delivery of Recovery Services in a College Setting
Institute: {'code': 'AA', 'abbreviation': 'NIAAA', 'name': 'National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism', 'admin_org_id': '12500001', 'admin_funding_url': ''}. PI: Trace S Kershaw. Award: $723716.
Start: 2026-09-05T00:00:00.
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
Alcohol misuse is prevalent on college campuses, with 14% of students meeting criteria for alcohol use
disorder (AUD). Given the widespread access to alcohol, navigating recovery from alcohol and AUD in these
spaces may be particularly difficult. Within colleges and universities, campus recovery communities (CRCs)
are one resource intended to support those in recovery while in the midst of these challenging environments.
Not much is known about how recovery programs operate within college settings, including the institutional and
organizational barriers and facilitators of successful recovery strategies. Further, how students use recovery
programs and what recovery strategies are most effective are likely to vary across programs. This proposal
seeks to understand available resources for students in recovery as well as to develop and test innovative
methods that accurately capture the complexity and dynamics of social networks and institutional context in
relation to treatment engagement and return to use. We will utilize the Consolidated Framework for
Implementation Research (CFIR) to guide an evaluation of CRCs in the hopes of understanding successful
implementation of these programs for students in active recovery. For our first Aim, we will collect 3 waves of
quantitative data (baseline, 12 months, 24 months) from a national sample of 30 CRC administrators to
longitudinally examine the availability of resources for their CRC and changes in organizational and policy
structures. We will also complete qualitative interviews to evaluate barriers to and facilitators of
implementation. Our second Aim is to enroll 30 students from each participating CRC (N=900 total) to assess
the use of available CRC resources and individual and social factors related to recovery and use. We will
conduct quantitative surveys at 3 timepoints (baseline, 6 months, and 12 months) to identify types of
treatments and resources that are used at their individual CRC, treatment engagement, self-efficacy, and
cravings. We will also utilize ecological momentary assessments and mobile breathalyzers for three 30-day
periods prior to each survey to assess, in real-time, the impact of social network influence, treatment
engagement, cravings, and self-efficacy on return to use. This proposal is the first step in a precision health
approach where we can use real time data and information to extend the arm of treatment in a higher
education setting. With the information we are gathering, we hope to create tailored interventions for students
that could reduce the risk of return to use in real time.document fetched 2026-09-13 02:45