PREVENTION OF RISK FOR DRUG USE IN RURAL ETHNIC MINORITY

农村少数民族吸毒风险的预防

• 批准号: 6594433
• 负责人: Frederick Beauvais
• 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/6594433
• 关键词: African American; Mexican Americans; Native Americans; adolescence (12-20); age difference; behavioral /social science research tag; caucasian American; clinical research; culture; data collection; disease /disorder proneness /risk; drug abuse information system; drug abuse prevention; gender difference; health surveys; human data; information dissemination; mathematical model; model design /development; racial /ethnic difference; rural area; social psychology; substance abuse epidemiology

Project I: This project will provide a rare opportunity to exploit several large databases that contain a wide range of drug use and psychosocial data on four rural, ethnic populations. American Indian, Mexican, American, Black American and White American adolescents attending school. Additional data will be available to compare and contrast these populations with non-rural youth of ethnic background. All of the studies from which the data are taken use the same instrumentation and survey methodology and, with one exception, use stratified random sampling. The intent of this project is to identify those factors that have strong implications for prevention and to make recommendations about prevention strategies. The data will come from projects in progress within the Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research. Data collection will be ongoing, providing the opportunity for an array of analyses to be conducted for cross validation of all findings. In addition to cross validation, each analysis will take place by gender, grade in school and ethnicity to produce an extremely rich description of drug use and interactions among these variables and populations. Several analytic approaches are proposed. First drug use prevalence rates and patterns of use across populations will be compared to determine whether personal and demographic characteristics lead to differences. Second, dependent and independent variables will be examined across ethnic groups to establish reliability and validity estimates. EQS using confirmatory factor analysis will be employed to test for measurement invariance. Third, mean differences on psychosocial variables will be compared and a series of EQS models will be generated and differences elucidated A central element of these models will be to detect the impact of cultural identification on substance use. Finally, throughout the course of the project findings will be routinely published and made available to both professionals and practitioners.

项目一：该项目将提供一个难得的机会来利用几个大型数据库，这些数据库包含有关四个农村、少数民族人口的广泛药物使用和心理社会数据。美国印第安人、墨西哥人、美国人、美国黑人和美国白人青少年在上学。将提供更多数据来将这些人口与具有种族背景的非农村青年进行比较和对比。所有获取数据的研究都使用相同的仪器和调查方法，并且除一项例外外，均使用分层随机抽样。该项目的目的是确定那些对预防有重大影响的因素，并就预防策略提出建议。这些数据将来自三民族预防研究中心正在进行的项目。数据收集将持续进行，为进行一系列分析以交叉验证所有结果提供机会。除了交叉验证之外，每次分析还将按性别、学校年级和种族进行，以对药物使用以及这些变量和人群之间的相互作用进行极其丰富的描述。提出了几种分析方法。首先将比较不同人群的吸毒流行率和使用模式，以确定个人和人口特征是否会导致差异。其次，将对不同种族群体的因变量和自变量进行检查，以建立可靠性和有效性估计。使用验证性因子分析的 EQS 将用于测试测量的不变性。第三，将比较心理社会变量的平均差异，并生成一系列 EQS 模型并阐明差异。这些模型的核心要素将是检测文化认同对物质使用的影响。最后，在整个项目过程中，研究结果将定期发布并提供给专业人士和从业人员。