Safe Choices to Prevent HIV/AIDS in Afro-Caribbean American Youth

加勒比非洲裔美国青年预防艾滋病毒/艾滋病的安全选择

• 批准号: 7547870
• 负责人: Cynthia Archibald
• 金额: $ 9.16万
• 依托单位: FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-04 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7547870
• 关键词: AIDS prevention; AIDS/HIV problem; Abstinence; Academic Training; Accounting; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Address; Adolescent; Adolescent Behavior; Africa South of the Sahara; African American; Age; American; Attitude; Behavior; Caribbean natives; Caribbean region; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Child; Child Rearing; Church; Collaborations; Communication; Communities; Community Healthcare; Complement; Consultations; County; Data; Daughter; Drug abuse; Education; Educational process of instructing; Family; Florida; Focus Groups; Foundations; Funding; Future; Goals; HIV; HIV Infections; Happiness; Health; Healthy People 2010; Human immunodeficiency virus test; Immigrant; Incidence; Institutes; Institution; Intervention; Knowledge; Life Style; MFC; Mentored Research Scientist Development Award; Mentors; Mothers; National Institute of Drug Abuse; Parents; Phase; Play; Population; Prevention; Prevention intervention; Principal Investigator; Purpose; Qualitative Methods; Religion and Spirituality; Religious Belief; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Resources; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Risk Reduction; Risk-Taking; Role; Sampling; Sex Behavior; Sexual Transmission; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Source; Target Populations; Teenagers; Testing; Time; Training Activity; United States; Work; World Bank; Youth; base; community based participatory research; comparative; desire; experience; intervention program; prevent; programs; sex; social organization; statistics; theories; therapy design

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This K01 mentored research scientist development award seeks funding to support the broad, long term objective of developing a program of research in HIV/AIDS intervention for Afro-Caribbean American youth. The specific aims of the proposed study and related training activities are: 1) to advance knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS prevention focusing on mother-daughter relationships; 2) to gain expertise in appropriate research approaches including community-based participatory research for designing and testing an HIV/AIDS prevention intervention; 3) to expand understanding of statistics appropriate for use with intervention designs ; 4) to establish and maintain relationships with faith-based communities as a foundation for ongoing research; and 5) to develop and submit an independent externally-funded research grant. Training activities will complement the research objectives by providing mentoring, academic training, practical experience, and consultation. This proposal is health-related because Afro-Caribbean American youth are at risk for sexually transmitted disease including HIV/AIDS. The safe choice intervention emphasizes abstinence but also teaches them how to make responsible decisions should they decide to be sexually active. In this way, adolescents can eliminate the risks for sexually-transmitted HIV/AIDS. Churches have been a powerful source of influence for many Caribbean families and have been underutilized by researchers to effect changes in sexual behavior. This descriptive-comparative research design will develop and test a church-based, theory-driven, and culture-specific intervention from an existing intervention that works. The study will utilize a community based participatory approach using convenience samples. Two separate focus groups (10 mothers and 10 daughters) will be conducted to gain culture-specific information which will be used to tailor the existing intervention. In the "Act" phase, the tailored intervention will be implemented and feasibility and acceptability will be evaluated. The premise of the study is to identify culture-specific determinants of risk behaviors comprehensively using quantitative and qualitative methods to generate knowledge that can be directly applied to practice and develop a program of research focusing on safe choice as a means of HIV/AIDS reduction. The goal for future research is to identify and implement culturally-appropriate HIV/AIDS intervention strategies for Afro-Caribbean Americans.

描述（由申请人提供）：该 K01 指导研究科学家发展奖寻求资金支持为非裔加勒比裔美国青年制定艾滋病毒/艾滋病干预研究计划的广泛、长期目标。拟议研究和相关培训活动的具体目标是： 1) 提高以母女关系为重点的艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防知识； 2) 获得适当研究方法的专业知识，包括基于社区的参与性研究，以设计和测试艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防干预措施； 3）扩大对适用于干预设计的统计数据的理解； 4）建立并维持与信仰社区的关系，作为持续研究的基础； 5) 制定并提交独立的外部资助研究经费。培训活动将通过提供指导、学术培训、实践经验和咨询来补充研究目标。该提案与健康相关，因为加勒比裔美国青年面临感染艾滋病毒/艾滋病等性传播疾病的风险。安全选择干预强调禁欲，但也教会他们在决定性活跃时如何做出负责任的决定。通过这种方式，青少年可以消除性传播艾滋病毒/艾滋病的风险。对许多加勒比家庭来说，教堂一直是影响力的强大来源，但研究人员却没有充分利用教堂来改变性行为。这种描述性比较研究设计将从现有的有效干预措施中开发和测试基于教会的、理论驱动的、针对特定文化的干预措施。该研究将采用基于社区的参与方法，使用方便样本。将进行两个单独的焦点小组（10 名母亲和 10 名女儿），以获得特定文化的信息，这些信息将用于调整现有的干预措施。在“行动”阶段，将实施量身定制的干预措施，并评估可行性和可接受性。该研究的前提是综合利用定量和定性方法来确定风险行为的特定文化决定因素，以产生可直接应用于实践的知识，并制定一个以安全选择为减少艾滋病毒/艾滋病手段的研究计划。未来研究的目标是为加勒比非洲裔美国人确定并实施适合文化的艾滋病毒/艾滋病干预策略。