Risk Factors for HIV Among Urban African American Youth

城市非洲裔美国青年感染艾滋病毒的危险因素

• 批准号: 7223556
• 负责人: Steven Bernard Carswell
• 金额: $ 8.85万
• 依托单位: FRIENDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-12-01 至 2008-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7223556
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The candidate is a sociologist, and a former recipient of a Minority Investigator Award from NIDA, with knowledge and experience regarding community and environmental factors and their relationship to youth involvement in health-compromising behaviors in urban areas. The Social Research Center (SRC), where the candidate is currently employed as a research scientist, is the research campus of Friends Research Institute (FRI), a private non-profit institution established in 1955. The Center promotes pre-doctoral training experiences designed to facilitate careers in behavioral, public health, and public policy research, providing entry-level positions for talented graduate and undergraduate students in the behavioral sciences. The candidate's long-term career objective is to become an independent investigator. He would like to focus his professional career on developing and testing intervention models that place urban African American youth and adults at-risk for HIV/AIDS. The candidate proposes to be mentored by his primary sponsor Dr. Jeannette Johnson, a Native American, cross-cultural psychologist, who has extensive prevention research knowledge and expertise regarding individual, social, and cultural risk and protective factors associated with HIV/AIDS in minority communities. During the mentored phase, he also proposes to take courses regarding HIV/AIDS at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at John's Hopkins University and attend NIH and other HIV/AIDS related conferences. The primary aim of the proposed three-year cross-sectional study is to examine the extent to which specific risk and protective factors predict both perceptions of HIV risk and participation in risky sexual behavior among high-risk African American youth. These youth, currently attending Baltimore City Alternative Learning Centers (BCALC), have been expelled from traditional public schools for committing violent acts or for engaging in other serious infractions, with many engaging in risky sexual behavior. Half of the participants will be assessed the first project year and the remainder assessed in the second year. Participants will be 200 male and female students, between the ages of 11 and 17 randomly selected from two BCALC school sites. Assessment data will be collected from January through May during each of the two data collection years. The research study proposed has the potential to provide a greater understanding of issues related to perceptions of HIV risk and participation in risky sexual behaviors among high-risk urban African American youth. Findings from the study will be of significance to the field of public health by filling important knowledge gaps in terms of risk for HIV infection among such youth.

描述（由申请人提供）：候选人是一名社会学家，也是NIDA的少数族裔调查员奖的获奖者，在社区和环境因素方面拥有知识和经验，以及他们与青年参与城市地区卫生知名行为的关系。社会研究中心（SRC）目前被候选人用作研究科学家，是Friends Research Institute（FRI）的研究园区，该研究所是一家成立于1955年的私人非营利机构。该中心旨在促进旨在促进行为，公共卫生和公共政策研究的职业生涯，为入学级别的学生提供促进职业的职业生涯，从而促进了专业级别的学生和从事领先地位的学生。候选人的长期职业目标是成为一名独立的调查员。他想将自己的职业生涯集中在开发和测试干预模型上，这些模型将城市的非裔美国人青年和成年人处于艾滋病毒/艾滋病风险中。该候选人建议由他的主要赞助商Jeannette Johnson博士（美国原住民，跨文化心理学家）指导，他在少数民族社区中与与艾滋病毒/艾滋病相关的个人，社会和文化风险以及保护因素具有广泛的预防研究知识和专业知识。在指导阶段，他还建议在约翰霍普金斯大学的彭博公共卫生学院参加有关艾滋病毒/艾滋病的课程，并参加NIH和其他与艾滋病毒/艾滋病有关的会议。拟议的三年横断面研究的主要目的是检查特定风险和保护因素在多大程度上预测了对艾滋病毒风险的看法，又可以预测高风险的非裔美国人青年的风险性行为。这些年轻人目前参加了巴尔的摩市替代学习中心（BCALC），已因传统公立学校而被开除，因为他们犯下了暴力行为或从事其他严重的违规行为，其中许多人从事风险的性行为。一半的参与者将在第一个项目年度评估，其余部分将在第二年进行评估。参与者将是200名男女学生，年龄在11至17岁之间，从两个BCALC学校随机选择。评估数据将在两个数据收集年份中的每一个中从1月至5月收集。该研究提出的研究有可能对与艾滋病毒风险的看法相关的问题有更多的了解，并参与高危城市非裔美国人青年的风险性行为。该研究的发现将通过填补这类年轻人感染艾滋病毒感染的风险来填补重要知识差距，对公共卫生领域具有重要意义。