A Culturally Specific Intervention for Latino Families

针对拉丁裔家庭的特定文化干预

基本信息

批准号：
7843691
负责人：
CHARLES R MARTINEZ
金额：
$ 62.79万
依托单位：
OREGON SOCIAL LEARNING CENTER, INC.
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 2012-05-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7843691
关键词：
Acculturation Address Alcohol or Other Drugs use Behavior Censuses Child Communities Complex Country Data Distress Dropout Drug usage Educational Intervention Evaluation Exploratory/Developmental Grant Failure Family Frequencies Funding Gender Gender Role Growth Health Hispanics Imprisonment Individual Intervention Latino Lead Learning Mediating Mental Health Mental Health Services Methods Minority Minority Groups Modeling National Institute of Drug Abuse Oregon Outcome Parenting behavior Parents Population Prevention Preventive Intervention Problem behavior Process Public Health Randomized Research Research Personnel Risk Sampling Schools Services Social Work Social support Societies Socioeconomic Factors Socioeconomic Status Specific qualifier value Stereotyping Stress Subgroup System Testing Theoretical model Training Work Youth behavioral health contextual factors efficacy trial empowerment evidence base family structure improved intervention effect programs rapid growth social theories

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Latinos make up the fastest growing ethnic subgroup in the U.S., yet our understanding about mechanisms of risk and protection has lagged far behind the growth rate. We do know that, for many Latino youngsters, risk for substance use/abuse grows substantially as they and their families move through the acculturation process. Moreover, data indicate that they are at greater risk for the co-morbid effects and consequences of substance use (e.g., school failure, incarceration, poor health). Theoretical models suggest that acculturation processes, along with other contextual factors (e.g., socioeconomic status, social support processes), exert their effects on youngster adjustment indirectly, by impacting more proximal variables (i.e., parenting practices). While numerous prevention efforts have targeted parenting practices in mostly non-minority families, few intervention models have been tested that address culturally specific risk and protective factors for Latino families. The proposed study will help fill this gap by conducting a randomized longitudinal efficacy trial of a culturally specific preventive intervention adapted from the Oregon Social Learning Center's Parent Management Training model. The program, developed over four years with the support of NIDA, will be evaluated in a sample of 240 Latino families with youngsters in the 6th through 8th grade. Fifty percent of the families will be assigned to the intervention condition, and 50% will be assigned to the control condition. The sample will also be blocked on the focal youngsters' nativity status (i.e., 50% U.S-bom and 50% foreign- bom). All families will be assessed using multiple methods and agents at five points over approximately a two-year period. The project aims are to: (1) examine the efficacy of a culturally specified parent training intervention for Latino families on decreasing family stress, improving effective parenting practices, and reducing youngster risk for substance use and related problems; (2) examine potential differential effects of the intervention as a function of youth nativity status, youth gender, and higher initial levels of youth problem behaviors; and (3) test the theory underlying the intervention by determining whether changes in youngster trajectories towards risk for substance use and related behavioral health problems are mediated by intervention related changes to targeted parenting practices.

描述（由申请人提供）：拉丁美洲人构成了美国增长最快的种族亚组，但我们对风险和保护机制的理解远远落后于增长率。我们确实知道，对于许多拉丁裔青少年而言，随着他们及其家人在适应过程中的发展，使用/滥用药物的风险大大增加。此外，数据表明，它们具有更大的合并作用和物质使用后果的风险（例如，学校失败，监禁，健康状况不佳）。理论模型表明，适应过程以及其他上下文因素（例如社会经济地位，社会支持过程），通过影响更多的近端变量（即育儿实践），间接地对年轻人的适应作用。尽管许多预防努力针对主要是非少数家庭的育儿做法，但很少有人测试过针对拉丁裔家庭的文化特定风险和保护因素的测试模型。拟议的研究将通过对俄勒冈州社会学习中心的父母管理培训模型进行的文化特定预防干预措施进行随机纵向疗效试验来帮助填补这一空白。该计划在NIDA的支持下开发了四年，将在6至8年级的240个拉丁裔家庭中进行评估。 50％的家庭将被分配到干预条件，将分配给50％的家庭。样本还将被焦点年轻人的出生状态（即50％的美国 - 邦和50％外国BOM）所阻止。所有家庭将在大约两年的时间内使用多种方法和代理进行评估。该项目的目的是：（1）检查对拉丁裔家庭的文化指定父母培训干预措施减轻家庭压力，改善有效的育儿习惯，并降低年轻人对药物使用和相关问题的风险的功效；（2）检查干预措施的潜在差异影响是青年耶稣诞生状况，青年性别以及更高初始水平的青年问题行为的函数；（3）通过确定年轻人轨迹对物质使用风险和相关行为健康问题的变化是否通过与针对性育儿实践相关的变化来介导的，测试干预措施的理论。