KBS 2008, Symposium Workshops

The 10th Annual GENACIS Workshop

Organizers:/contact persons: Sharon C. Wilsnack (swilsnac@medicine.nodak.edu),

Arlinda F. Kristjanson (akristja@medicine.nodak.edu)

GENACIS (Gender, Alcohol, and Culture: An International Study) is a collaborative project associated with the Kettil Bruun Society and coordinated by GENACIS partners at the University of North Dakota, the University of Southern Denmark, the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, and the Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems.  The collaborative study includes comparable surveys of alcohol use and alcohol-related problems in women and men from more than 40 countries.

The 10th Annual GENACIS Workshop will be held May 31 (afternoon) and June 1, 2008, preceding the KBS Symposium in Victoria.  As described elsewhere, the Saturday afternoon session will focus on qualitative research methods and their potential use in analyzing GENACIS data.  Sunday sessions will include an introduction to multilevel analysis of GENACIS data; a review of special methodological and analytic issues in individual country data sets; a discussion of styles of analysis of GENACIS data; and an invited presentation on gender and health research and capacity-building in Latin America.

The workshop is open to GENACIS members and others interested in research on gender, culture, and alcohol use.  For more information, please contact Sharon Wilsnack (swilsnac@medicine.nodak.edu) or Arlinda Kristjanson (akristja@medicine.nodak.edu).

Saturday, May 31st, 2:00 - 5:30 pm Room 1207

Open to all GENACIS members and other interested participants

GENACIS Qualitative presymposium/DRAFT PROGRAMME for Saturday

 Meeting Coordinators: Marja Holmila and Nancy Poole

Sunday, June 1st from 9 am - 5:00 p.m. Room 1207

Qualitative Research Workshop

Organizer: Geoffrey Hunt at huntgisa@ix.netcom.com

Sunday, June 1st from 9 am to 4.30 p.m, Pacific 1214 (upper)

Open to all interested

The Qualitative Research workshop, as in previous years, the focus will be on providing younger and less experienced researchers the opportunity of presenting their work in a supportive environment conducive to discussing qualitative research. Qualitative researchers will be encouraged to present their research, even of a preliminary nature to an audience of fellow qualitative researchers. The aim is to provide a forum both to obtain positive and constructive feedback to assist future analyses as well as participating in theoretical, methodological, and thematic discussions.

The workshop deliberately has no specific designated, as the organizers wish to encourage qualitative researchers to present on a wide-range of topics. Interested presenters are requested to send a detailed outline of their proposed presentation to Geoffrey Hunt (huntgisa@ix.netcom.com) by April 15th for approval by the Workshop Committee (Alexandra Bogren, Jakob Demant, Geoffrey Hunt, Peter Nygaard and Jukka Torrenen). Interested presenters are reminded that the workshop presentations may be similar to their papers presented at the main conference. The final program and chosen presentations will be decided by May 15th and papers circulated to all interested participants.

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Qualitative Workshop Program

Cross-cultural issues in the links between personality factors, drinking motives, and alcohol use in adolescent and college student populations

Organizers: Emmanuel Kuntsche at ekuntsche@sfa-ispa.ch Sherry H. Stewart, M. Lynne Cooper

Sunday, June 1st, 1 to 5 p.m., Room 1214, lower 1

Open to all interested

Drinking motives (or reasons for drinking) are the final pathway to alcohol use, i.e. the gateway through which more distal influences, such as personality characteristics or alcohol expectancies, are mediated. So far, knowledge about drinking motives and their links to personality factors and alcohol-related outcomes has been mainly restricted to North America. Cross-national studies are particularly scarce.

The pre-symposium invites researchers who have conducted studies on personality factors (e.g., NEO-FFI) and/or drinking motives (e.g., DMQ-R) in respect to alcohol-related outcomes in adolescent or college student populations. The aim is to discuss conceptual strategies, and how to match and analyze data from different countries. Participants are expected to bring their own data sets and/or a description of their data to the meeting.

New drinking practices of young people and their implications for research and policy

Organizers: Samantha Wells at swells@uwo.ca and Kathryn Graham

Monday, June 2nd, 12:30 . 2:00, Pacific Room 1214 (tentative)

Open to all interested

A growing body of evidence suggests that the routine drinking practices of young people have changed in recent years and may present new challenges for researchers and policy makers. For example, pre-drinking (or pre-gaming/front-loading), involving planned heavy drinking among young people (usually at someone.s home) before attending a social event, has emerged as a common practice among young adults around the world. Although very little research has been conducted on pre-drinking, it has been found to be associated elevated levels of alcohol consumption and a greater risk of harmful consequences. Additionally, the consumption of energy drinks (i.e., containing caffeine and other ingredients that stimulate the central nervous system) combined with alcohol has recently emerged as being a popular practice and may present risks for young drinkers. The aim of this workshop is to review, from an international perspective, what is known about the new drinking practices of young people and associated harms. Participants will discuss ongoing and future research efforts that might be taken to better understand the new drinking practices of young people. Future directions for policy and prevention work also will be discussed.