Alcohol
...eria used in this study, was the “Composite International Diagnostic Interview-Substance Abuse Module (CIDI-SAM)” (Clements). This study found that less than 4% of the student's sampled attempted to seek treatment. Also, this study found that there is a need for alcohol education programs in the college setting and faculty should show concern for students with alcohol abuse problems. In my opinion, this study has just illustrated what I already know about the lifestyles of some college students: they drink a significantly larger sum of alcohol than most other groups in society do. There was a correlation between “independent variables of sex, ethnicity, age, year in school, and marital status” (Clements). The author reportedly meets with each of the students in the sample. It may be possible that he, giving the survey, could have had an effect on what students reported. The population that the sample was taken from consists of 4,400 undergraduate students, of the 356 participants, only 306 actually participated. Two hundred twenty-nine people or 74.8 percent of the sample were women, and only 77 men were used (Clements). I think that there’s a problem with this, from my experience men at college drink a considerably larger amount of alcohol than women. If you wanted an accurate sample, the sample n...