Christine Lee awarded $2.49M five year NIAAA grant

Department news | September 30, 2017


Christine Lee, PhD, Research Professor and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors, received a five year grant to develop and test a mobile app for college students that aims to reduce high-risk alcohol use and associated negative consequences. Funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the researchers will target real-time, real-world alcohol expectancies and intentions to drink. This study builds upon Dr. Lee’s prior work examining feed-forward processes of alcohol expectancies, use, and consequences (e.g., whether and how individuals learn from their prior experiences to shape future drinking cognitions and drinking behavior). The new study will test the effects of a mobile app delivered intervention providing personalized, daily feedback for 14 days based on students’ daily drinking intentions, alcohol expectancies and experienced consequences.