Culturally-Appropriate Treatment for Native Americans

适合美洲原住民文化的待遇

• 批准号: 6561075
• 负责人: Kamilla L. Venner
• 金额: $ 12.73万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-30 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6561075
• 关键词: Native Americans; adult human (21+); alcoholism /alcohol abuse therapy; alternative medicine; clinical research; culture; gender difference; health behavior; health care service availability; health care service evaluation; health care service utilization; human subject; human therapy evaluation; interview; patient oriented research; questionnaires; remission /regression; self help; substance abuse epidemiology

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There are ongoing debates but very few empirical data regarding the development of culturally appropriate treatment methods for alcohol use disorders among Native Americans. The usual research-practice gap is further widened by the fact that many Indian people receive substance abuse treatment through separate programs specifically for Native American clientele but not usually empirically based. The University of New Mexico requests early career development and training support for Dr. Kamilla Venner, whose primary research interests are in the advancement of treatment methods for Native American peoples. Her training plan focuses on the development of independent investigator skills in three areas: (1) research design, statistics and grant-writing (2) research management skills and (3) training therapists to provide manual-guided therapies for use in future clinical trials. Each of these areas is incorporated into an integrated sequence of coursework, mentored research experience, training with expert colleagues and scientific writing. Her research plan builds upon her predoctoral research studying processes of recovery from alcohol dependence among Native Americans. One hundred Native Americans will be recruited to provide quantitative and qualitative data designed to describe the severity of alcohol problems, create a chronology of events used to resolve alcohol dependence, and examine factors contributing to change and maintenance. This research will yield the first empirical study examining the natural history of recovery events among Native Americans, and will contribute new cross-cultural knowledge regarding successful methods for resolving alcohol dependence. The primary goal of the proposed research is to advance knowledge about how current evidence-based treatment methods could be modified or supplemented to be more culturally appropriate for treating Native American patients and in training Native American practitioners. Dr. Venner's career plan includes the development of R03 and R01 proposals to develop and test such treatment methods within Indian-specific treatment services, thus forming a strong foundation for a research scientist career.

描述（由申请人提供）：关于针对美洲原住民酒精使用障碍开发文化上合适的治疗方法，一直存在争论，但经验数据很少。由于许多印度人通过专门针对美洲原住民客户的单独项目接受药物滥用治疗，但通常不是基于经验的，这一事实进一步扩大了通常的研究与实践差距。新墨西哥大学请求卡米拉·文纳博士的早期职业发展和培训支持，他的主要研究兴趣是改进美洲原住民的治疗方法。她的培训计划侧重于发展三个领域的独立研究者技能：（1）研究设计、统计和资助写作（2）研究管理技能和（3）培训治疗师提供手动指导疗法以用于未来的临床试验。这些领域中的每一个都被纳入一系列完整的课程作业、指导研究经验、专家同事培训和科学写作中。她的研究计划建立在她的博士前研究基础上，研究美洲原住民从酒精依赖中恢复的过程。将招募一百名美洲原住民来提供定量和定性数据，旨在描述酒精问题的严重性，创建用于解决酒精依赖的事件年表，并检查有助于改变和维持的因素。这项研究将产生第一个检验美洲原住民恢复事件自然史的实证研究，并将贡献有关成功解决酒精依赖方法的新的跨文化知识。 拟议研究的主要目标是增进对当前循证治疗方法如何修改或补充的了解，以使其在文化上更适合治疗美洲原住民患者和培训美洲原住民从业者。 Venner 博士的职业规划包括制定 R03 和 R01 提案，以在印度特定的治疗服务中开发和测试此类治疗方法，从而为研究科学家的职业生涯奠定坚实的基础。