| Abstract: |
| Drinking among college students is becoming a key public health needed to be addresses. Approximately 62-72\%
of college students drank at least once per month, with an average drinking days per month ranged in 4-10.
Drinking, indirectly, causes more than 60 type of disease and injuries and results in almost 88000 death per year.
The environmental context influences individuals decision on alcohol consumption, and therefore, university environment is factor affecting drinking among students.
We developed and analyzed an agent based model to examine students interactionwieh environments that support the alcohol drinking at population level in computer college population.
We examine how contextual factors and movement patterns affect spread of alcohol among college students.
The data collected from the survey on health behavior of students conducted on ASU Tempe campus are used to simulate most parameters of model.
We use sensitivity analysis to quantify variability in drinking prevalence resulting from model unknown parameters.
The primary result of model identified critical environmental mechanism drive patterns of drinking behavior.
Alcohol drinking of students depends on certain social contexts and duration of time in those social venues more than any other factor in model. |
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