PROTECTING URBAN AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTHS FROM VIOLENCE

保护城市美国印第安青年免受暴力侵害

• 批准号: 6351749
• 负责人: LINDA H. BEARINGER
• 金额: $ 5.13万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-02-02 至 2002-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6351749
• 关键词: Native Americans; adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; child behavior; clinical research; epidemiology; family structure /dynamics; high risk behavior /lifestyle; human subject; injury prevention; middle childhood (6-11); prevention; socioenvironment; substance abuse related disorder; urban area; violence

DESCRIPTION (As Adapted from the Investigator's Abstract): The goal of the proposed research is to improve our understanding of risk and protective factors for self-directed violence, weapon carrying, and interpersonal violence in order to better design and target prevention strategies. Analyses will focus on urban American Indian youths who are characterized by a disproportionately high risk of firearm injury, suicidal involvement, and participation in interpersonal violence. American Indian young people in urban settings are among the highest risk for suicide in the US with overall attempt rates as high as 1 in 5 who have attempted before age 18. It is the second leading cause of death for this population. Homicide is the first. The research will utilize secondary data from a study, funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research, that examined the impact of a youth development program on the health and well being of urban American Indians. Between 1995 and 1998, 635 American Indian youths, ages 9-18, were assessed using the Urban Indian Health Survey, a confidential, self-report survey examining an array of health compromising behaviors and protective factors, along with social, contextual, and demographic information. The two part survey was administered to youth who were participants in an American Indian youth-development program in Minneapolis and to Indian youth attending predominantly American Indian public schools, also in Minneapolis, which is home to the second largest populations of urban American Indians in the US. Grounded in a resiliency paradigm, the aims of this study are to: 1) identify within this high risk group of young people, the contribution of individual, family, and school/community related risk factors to suicidal behavior and interpersonal violence (including weapon carrying; 2) identify protective factors against self-injurious and interpersonal violence among these high risk adolescents; 3) develop generalized models of factors that contribute to and protect against both intrapersonal and interpersonal violence, identifying those factors most amenable to intervention with adolescents. This particularly includes an examination of the potential mediating influence of alcohol and drug use; and 4) develop probability profiles of factors associated with increased or decreased suicidal and interpersonal violence involvement in this population of 9-18 year olds in order to determine priorities for suicide and violence prevention in programmatic settings. We hypothesized that the relative contribution of individual risk factors to adolescent violence involvement may vary by age and gender, but the way these risk factors interact will be similar across the groups. We expect that the more risk factors to which a young person is exposed, the greater the risk for violent outcomes. We also hypothesized that universal protective factors will emerge that cross-cut this high risk group by age, gender, and violent outcomes. Overall, this research will develop an information base for developing violence prevention strategies designed to reduce risk and promote the presence of protective factors in the lives of those youths most vulnerable to violent outcomes.

描述（根据调查员的摘要进行了改编）： 拟议的研究是提高我们对风险和保护性的理解 自我指导的暴力，武器携带和人际暴力的因素 为了更好地设计和针对预防策略。分析将集中精力 关于以不成比例的特征的城市美洲印第安人青年 枪支受伤，自杀介入和参与的高风险 人际暴力。在城市环境中的美洲印度年轻人是 在美国自杀风险最高，总体尝试率很高 AS五分之一的人在18岁之前尝试过。这是第二个主要原因 该人群的死亡。凶杀是第一个。研究将利用 由国家护理研究所资助的一项研究的二级数据 研究，研究了青年发展计划对健康的影响 和美国印第安人的福祉。在1995年至1998年之间，635美国 印度年轻人9-18岁，使用印度城市健康调查进行评估， 机密，自我报告调查检查一系列健康损害 行为和保护因素，以及社会，上下文和 人口统计信息。两部分调查是对年轻人进行的 明尼阿波利斯的美洲印第安人青年发展计划的参与者和 对于主要是美国印度公立学校的印度青年，也 明尼阿波利斯（Minneapolis），是美国城市第二大人口的所在地 美国的印第安人。基于弹性范式，本研究的目的 是：1）确定在这个高风险的年轻人中， 个人，家庭和学校/社区相关的风险因素的贡献 自杀行为和人际暴力（包括携带武器； 2） 识别防御自我伤害和人际暴力的保护因素 在这些高风险的青少年中； 3）开发广义因素模型 这有助于并防止人际和人际关系 暴力，确定这些因素最适合干预 青少年。这特别包括检查潜力 介导酒精和吸毒的影响； 4）提出概率 与自杀量增加或减少相关的因素的概况 人际关系暴力参与这一9-18岁的人群 为了确定自杀和预防暴力的优先事项 编程设置。我们假设 青少年暴力参与的个人风险因素可能因年龄而有所不同， 性别，但是这些风险因素相互作用的方式将在整个中相似 组。我们希望年轻人面临的风险因素更多 暴露，暴力结果的风险越大。我们还假设 普遍的保护因素将出现，这是通过 年龄，性别和暴力结果。总体而言，这项研究将发展 发展预防暴力策略的信息基础 降低风险并促进生命中保护因素的存在 那些最容易受到暴力结果的年轻人。