Cuqyun: Predictors of Alaska Native Adolescent Sobriety and Reasons for Living

Cuqyun：阿拉斯加原住民青少年清醒的预测因素和生活的原因

• 批准号: 7078177
• 负责人: JAMES R. ALLEN
• 金额: $ 17.52万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-01 至 2008-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7078177
• 关键词: Alaskan Native American; adolescence (12-20); alcoholism /alcohol abuse; alcoholism /alcohol abuse prevention; behavior prediction; behavior test; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; culture; data collection methodology /evaluation; drug /alcohol abstinence; focus groups; health disparity; human subject; motivation; outcomes research; patient oriented research; psychometrics; questionnaires; suicide

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Alaska Native (AN) youth face significant health disparities associated with alcohol and suicide. Cuqyun (measuring tool) is a developmental project whose long term objective is programmatic research leading to an AN youth alcohol and suicide prevention trial to address these health disparities. The project builds on previous work with AN adults that used a community based participatory research (CBPR) methodology and a strengths-based, positive psychology focus in study of AN sobriety. Cuqyun proposes to extend this research to important variables in AN adolescent alcohol abuse and suicide. The project has three specific aims: (1) Culturally adapt for AN adolescents measures of variables associated with sobriety and reasons for living using a CBPR approach to measurement adaptation. (2) Test these adapted measures' psychometric properties with a sample of 475 AN adolescents age 3-18. (3) Test the predictive validity of these measures in an emically-derived model of AN sobriety and reasons for living suggested by previous CBPR. This final aim will also provide an empirical test of the multilevel pathway model of sobriety on which the proposed preventive intervention program of research is based. The measures that Cuqyun seeks to culturally adapt are variables conceived as proximal outcomes for specific intervention components within a prevention trial. Two additional variables are conceived as ultimate outcome variables. This developmental work will (1) provide necessary foundations for a prevention trial with Alaska Native youth, (2) advance CBPR methods with tribal communities in the area of measurement development, and (3) enhance our understanding of culture specific protective factors among Alaska Native and other ethnic minority groups to address health disparities.

描述（由申请人提供）：阿拉斯加原住民 (AN) 青年面临着与酗酒和自杀相关的显着健康差异。 Cuqyun（测量工具）是一个开发项目，其长期目标是开展一项青少年酗酒和自杀预防试验的规划研究，以解决这些健康差异。该项目建立在之前与 AN 成年人合作的基础上，该项目使用基于社区的参与性研究 (CBPR) 方法和基于优势的积极心理学重点来研究 AN 清醒。 Cuqyun 提议将这项研究扩展到青少年酗酒和自杀的重要变量。该项目有三个具体目标： (1) 使用 CBPR 方法进行测量适应，在文化上适应 AN 青少年与清醒和生活原因相关的变量测量。 (2) 以 475 名 3-18 岁的 AN 青少年为样本，测试这些适应措施的心理测量特性。 (3) 在先前 CBPR 提出的 AN 清醒和生活理由的主题衍生模型中测试这些措施的预测有效性。这一最终目标还将提供对清醒的多层次路径模型的实证检验，该模型是拟议的预防性干预研究计划的基础。 Cuqyun 寻求在文化上适应的措施是被视为预防试验中特定干预组成部分的最近结果的变量。两个附加变量被认为是最终结果变量。这项开发工作将 (1) 为阿拉斯加原住民青少年的预防试验提供必要的基础，(2) 在测量开发领域与部落社区一起推进 CBPR 方法，以及 (3) 增强我们对阿拉斯加原住民文化特定保护因素的理解和其他少数民族群体，以解决健康差距问题。