Protective Role of Spirituality in Alcohol and HIV Risk

灵性在酒精和艾滋病毒风险中的保护作用

基本信息

批准号：
6509421
负责人：
KATHY J GOGGIN
金额：
$ 10.1万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2001
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2001-09-01 至 2004-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6509421
关键词：
African American adolescence (12-20) alcoholic beverage consumption alcoholism /alcohol abuse alcoholism /alcohol abuse prevention alternative medicine behavioral /social science research tag belief clinical research coping high risk behavior /lifestyle human subject locus of control mental health epidemiology questionnaires religion substance abuse related behavior

项目摘要

Drinking among adolescents is prevalent. By the age of 14, over half all secondary school students drink at least occasionally. Further, adolescents are one of the major at-risk populations for alcohol abuse, with an estimated 30% of adolescent boys and 15% of adolescent girls meeting the criteria for heavy drinking (consuming greater than or equal to 5 drinks at a time) by the age of 18. The initiation of drinking is associated with a variety of negative outcomes for teens including higher risk of alcohol dependence, serious health problems including suicide and alcohol-related traffic accidents. While rates of heavy drinking among other adolescents have declined, rates among African-American youth have stayed consistently high (15% for boys and 5% for girls) over a 10-year period. Frequent heavy drinking places African-American youth at high risk for the development of problems related to their alcohol use. In fact, African- American adolescents who drink experience disproportionately more negative consequences as a result of alcohol use even though their levels of use are comparable or even lower than youth of other ethnic groups. Due to the severity of the problems associated with adolescent alcohol misuse, researchers have begun to explore protective factors that may inoculate at-risk adolescents from developing problem drinking patterns. Several of those inquiries have examined the potential protective role that religiosity and spirituality might play. Higher ratings of global religiosity and spirituality do indeed appear to be protective factors against problem drinking in adolescents. However, in adults recent evidence suggests that the extent of an individual's belief that God directly controls his or her alcohol use may have particular importance as a protective factor against problem drinking. This new evidence suggests a need for research on the protective role of alcohol- related God/Higher Power control beliefs in adolescents, however no published studies exist. The dearth of studies in this area is due at least in part to the paucity of available measures of domain-specific God/Higher Power control beliefs for use with African-American youth, 2) to explore the protective role of alcohol-related God/Higher Power control beliefs in the development of problem drinking among African-American youth.

青少年中的饮酒很普遍。到14岁时，所有中学生一半以上至少偶尔喝酒。此外，青少年是滥用酗酒的主要高危人群之一，估计有30％的青春期男孩和15％的青少年女孩满足大量饮酒的标准（一次性消费大于或等于5饮料）到18岁。饮酒的开始。饮酒的开始与包括较高的饮酒风险有关，包括饮酒率更高，包括酒精依赖性的健康状况，包括饮酒率更高。尽管其他青少年的大量饮酒率下降了，但在10年的时间里，非洲裔美国青年的比率一直保持很高（男孩为15％，女孩为5％）。频繁的大量饮酒使非裔美国人青年有与饮酒有关的问题的高风险。实际上，饮酒的非裔美国青少年由于饮酒而导致的负面影响不成比例，即使他们的使用水平可比甚至低于其他族裔群体的年轻人。由于与青少年酒精滥用相关的问题的严重程度，研究人员已经开始探索可以接种高危青少年的保护因素，从而产生了问题的饮酒方式。这些询问中有几项研究了宗教和灵性可能扮演的潜在保护作用。全球宗教信仰和灵性的更高评级确实确实是防止青少年饮酒问题的保护因素。但是，在成年人中，最近的证据表明，一个人相信上帝直接控制自己的酒精使用的程度可能特别重要，这是防止饮酒的保护因素。这一新证据表明，需要研究与饮酒相关的上帝/高级权力控制信念的保护作用，但是不存在公开的研究。在这一领域的研究缺乏至少部分是由于缺乏与非裔美国人青年一起使用的领域特异性神的可用措施/更高的权力控制信念，2）探索与酒精相关的上帝/高级权力控制信念在非裔美国人青年中饮用问题的发展中的保护作用。