SUBSTANCE ABUSE AMONG MEXICAN AMERICAN SCHOOL-AGE YOUTH

墨西哥美国学龄青少年的药物滥用

• 批准号: 5209676
• 负责人: JESSE T ZAPATA
• 金额: --
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 至
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/5209676
• 关键词: Mexican Americans; disease /disorder proneness /risk; epidemiology; family; gender difference; human subject; longitudinal human study; low socioeconomic status; model; secondary schools; substance abuse related disorder

The proposed study is a continuation and expansion of the previously funded project that will further investigate substance use among male and female Mexican American school-age students. The specific aims for the proposed project follow from the original proposal and are expanded to describe the focus of the current proposal. The specific aims of the research are a) to document changes in the prevalence and patterns of substance use as the baseline sample (the original sample from the preceding proposal and a new group of subjects) of Mexican American students move into high school. Gender differences will be emphasized; b) to examine the effects of school transition (from middle school to high school) on risk factors and their association with self reported substance use among Mexican American students; c) to examine the impact of family factors as they relate to substance use in a Mexican American school-age population; d) to more thoroughly examine the issue of acculturation as it relates to the use of substances and the variables related to substance use among Mexican American-school age children; e) to further assess and examine risk factors that were found to be associated with self-reported substance use among Mexican American students in the preceding proposal; f) to develop a comprehensive predictive model of substance use among male and female Mexican American students using the longitudinal data collected over a 3 to 7 year period (this includes data from the preceding and the present proposals). The data will be collected over the first 4 consecutive years of the five year proposal. Seventh, 8th and 9th grade students (estimated baseline N=3,000) along with their randomly selected parents and teachers will be tracked as they advance through middle school into high school. With the inclusion of familial and acculturation variables in the present proposal, multivariate statistical procedures will be used to further explore and assess the predictive risk factors associated with substance use. Because the data is to be collected through three sources and over four time points, structural equation modeling techniques will be conducted to examine the causal relations between the risk factors (either antecedents or mediators) and the use of substances in Mexican American youth.

拟议的研究是先前的延续和扩展 资助的项目将进一步调查男性和 女性墨西哥裔美国学龄学生。 具体目标 拟议项目遵循原始提案，并将其扩展到 描述当前建议的重点。 特定目标 研究是a）记录发生率和模式的变化 物质用作基线样本（来自 墨西哥裔美国人的上述建议和一组新的主题 学生进入高中。 性别差异将被强调； b） 检查学校过渡的影响（从中学到高 学校）关于危险因素及其与自我报告的物质的关联 在墨西哥裔美国学生中使用； c）检查家庭的影响 与墨西哥裔美国学龄中的药物使用有关的因素 人口; d）更彻底地研究了它的适应性问题 与物质的使用以及与物质有关的变量有关 在墨西哥裔美国学校年龄儿童中使用； e）进一步评估和 检查发现与自我报告有关的风险因素 墨西哥裔美国学生在前面的提案中使用药物； f）开发雄性物质使用的全面预测模型 使用纵向数据收集的女性墨西哥裔美国学生 在3到7年的时间内（这包括前面的数据和 目前的建议）。 数据将在第一个4中收集 五年提案的连续几年。 七年级，八年级和九年级 学生（估计的基线n = 3,000）及其随机选择 父母和老师在中学前进时会被追踪 进入高中。 随着家族和文化的包括 本提案中的变量，多元统计程序 将用于进一步探索和评估预测风险因素 与药物使用相关。 因为要收集数据 通过三个来源和四个时间点，结构方程 将进行建模技术以检查因果关系 在危险因素（先例或调解人）之间 墨西哥裔美国青年的物质。