Trajectories of Depression and Alcohol Use in Black and White Adolescent Girls

黑人和白人青春期女孩的抑郁和酗酒轨迹

基本信息

批准号：
7183715
负责人：
SARAH E. DAUBER
金额：
$ 7.42万
依托单位：
PARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2006
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2006-09-30 至 2007-11-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7183715
关键词：
African American adolescence (12-20)alcoholism /alcohol abuse behavioral /social science research tag caucasian American child behavior child mental disorders child psychology clinical research comorbidity depression female health behavior human data longitudinal human study mental health epidemiology parent offspring interaction racial /ethnic difference

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed study aims to examine trajectories of depressive symptoms and alcohol use in White and African American adolescent girls from the early adolescent years through the transition to adulthood. This study will also examine characteristics of the parent-adolescent relationship as potential predictors of different trajectories. The specific aims of the study are to 1) examine race-specific developmental trajectories of the comorbidity of depression and substance use in adolescent girls from the early high school years through the transition to adulthood; and 2) determine whether family relationship variables predict particular trajectories of substance use and depression for adolescent girls of different racial backgrounds. To accomplish this, we will use data from the National Longitudinal Studies of Adolescent Health, a nationally representative dataset of adolescents that includes a variety of measures of frequency and severity of alcohol use, as well as an abridged version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, a widely used and well-validated measure of depressive symptoms. The dataset also includes a large number of measures of different aspects of the parent-adolescent relationship, as well as measures of a large number of potential covariates, including demographic and structural variables, peer relationships, school performance, delinquency and antisocial behavior, and self-esteem and personality variables. Data analyses will involve the use of a newly-developed approach for analyzing longitudinal data, which will allow us to group participants into distinct clusters based on their trajectories of depression and alcohol use over time, and to examine family variables as predictors of trajectory group membership. These analyses will be complemented by a more traditional hierarchical linear modeling approach. The findings of this study will increase our understanding of individual differences in patterns of depressive symptoms and alcohol use and their co-occurrence in White and African American adolescent girls. The study will also provide information on race differences in family-level risk factors for different trajectories of depression and alcohol use. Ultimately, findings will demonstrate a broader public health value in their utility in informing the design of culturally-sensitive prevention programs for depression and alcohol use in adolescent girls. The broad goals of the project are consistent with reducing mental health problems and substance use in adolescents.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的研究旨在检查白人和非裔美国青少年女孩从青春期初期到过渡到成年的抑郁症状和饮酒的轨迹。这项研究还将研究父母关系的特征，作为不同轨迹的潜在预测指标。该研究的具体目的是：1）检查从高中年代初期到成年期的青少年女孩中抑郁症和药物使用的合并症的特定种族特定发展轨迹； 2）确定家庭关系变量是否预测了不同种族背景的青少年女孩的特定轨迹和抑郁症。为此，我们将使用全国青少年健康纵向研究中的数据，这是一个全国代表性的青少年数据集，其中包括各种饮酒频率和严重性的度量，以及在流行病学研究中心抑郁量表的缩写版本，广泛使用和抑郁症状的效率良好。该数据集还包括大量衡量父母关系的不同方面的度量，以及大量潜在的协变量的度量，包括人口统计学和结构变量，同伴关系，学校表现，拖延和反社会行为，自尊和自尊和人格变量。数据分析将涉及使用新开发的方法来分析纵向数据，这将使我们能够根据他们的抑郁症和酒精使用的轨迹，将参与者分为不同的集群，并将家庭变量作为轨迹组成员的预测指标。这些分析将通过更传统的层次线性建模方法进行补充。这项研究的结果将增加我们对抑郁症状和饮酒模式的个体差异的理解及其在白人和非裔美国人青少年女孩中的同时出现。该研究还将提供有关不同抑郁症和饮酒轨迹的家庭水平风险因素种族差异的信息。最终，调查结果将证明其在为青少年女孩的抑郁症和饮酒的文化敏感预防计划的设计方面提供了更广泛的公共卫生价值。该项目的广泛目标与减少青少年的心理健康问题和药物使用一致。