DRUG USE IN RURAL ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITIES

农村少数民族社区的毒品使用情况

• 批准号: 6594434
• 负责人: RUTH W EDWARDS
• 金额: $ 6.18万
• 依托单位: COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-06-01 至 2003-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6594434
• 关键词: African American; Mexican Americans; adolescence (12-20); age difference; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; community; culture; disease /disorder proneness /risk; drug abuse; drug abuse information system; family structure /dynamics; gender difference; health surveys; human subject; interview; longitudinal human study; low socioeconomic status; racial /ethnic difference; religion; rural area; secondary schools; social psychology; student dropouts

Project II: This project will determine, for the first time, whether there are differences in how school and community characteristics are related to drug use rates in rural ethnic minority communities. The first part of the project is a secondary data analysis, combining existing data from two sources, (1) a survey of a stratified random sample of 180 rural communities across the U.S. and (2) a survey of 30 rural African American and 30 rural Mexican American communities. The surveys in these communities provide data on drug use by 7th through 12th grade students, as well as data on social and psychological risk factors for drug use and cultural identification. Information on school and community characteristics will be available from the census (including the past census and a census that will be run during the course of this project), from the School Data Book and from telephone interviews with key informants in each community. Except for the new census, the data collection for phase I, the secondary data analysis, will be complete by the time this project begins. Community characteristics include rurality and is9lation, poverty, education level and dropout, crime and violence, community instability, community cohesiveness and attachment, industrial structure, family disorganization, family cohesiveness and extended family, religious heterogeneity, ethnic heterogeneity, age structure, and gender normals and roles. Hierarchical linear modeling will be used to determine how community characteristics relate to drug use and how these relationships may differ in ethnic minority communities. The second phase of the study will determine, for the first time, how community characteristics relate to change in drug use rates in rural communities and whether there are differences related to ethnic minority communities. The study will involve two waves of re-surveying, one three years and one five years after the initial survey. Resurveyed will be the 30 African American and 30 Mexican American communities and a matched sample of 30 non-minority communities. The surveys and survey methods are identical for all waves. Hierarchical linear modeling will be used to determine how characteristics of these rural communities related to changes in drug use over time.

项目二：该项目将首次确定学校和社区特征与农村少数民族社区吸毒率的关系是否存在差异。该项目的第一部分是二次数据分析，结合了两个来源的现有数据：(1) 对美国 180 个农村社区的分层随机样本进行的调查；(2) 对 30 个非洲裔美国人和 30 个农村社区的调查墨西哥裔美国人社区。这些社区的调查提供了 7 至 12 年级学生吸毒的数据，以及吸毒的社会和心理风险因素和文化认同的数据。有关学校和社区特征的信息可从人口普查（包括过去的人口普查和将在本项目过程中进行的人口普查）、学校数据手册以及对每个社区主要知情人的电话采访中获得。除新的人口普查外，第一阶段的数据收集（二次数据分析）将在项目开始时完成。社区特征包括农村性和孤立性、贫困、教育水平和辍学、犯罪和暴力、社区不稳定、社区凝聚力和依恋、产业结构、家庭解体、家庭凝聚力和大家庭、宗教异质性、种族异质性、年龄结构和性别常态和角色。分层线性模型将用于确定社区特征与吸毒之间的关系以及这些关系在少数民族社区中可能有何不同。研究的第二阶段将首次确定社区特征与农村社区吸毒率变化的关系，以及是否存在与少数民族社区相关的差异。该研究将涉及两轮重新调查，一次是在初次调查后三年，另一次是五年后。重新调查的对象是 30 个非裔美国人和 30 个墨西哥裔美国人社区，以及 30 个非少数族裔社区的匹配样本。所有波浪的调查和调查方法都是相同的。将使用分层线性模型来确定这些农村社区的特征如何与药物使用随时间的变化相关。