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

基本信息

批准号：
7995270
负责人：
Steven Bernard Carswell
金额：
$ 19.32万
依托单位：
FRIENDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 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：
2006-12-01 至 2012-11-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7995270
关键词：
11 year old Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Adolescent African American Age Baltimore Behavior Behavioral Behavioral Sciences Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)Child Cities Coitus Commit Communities County Criminal Justice Cross-Sectional Studies Data Data Collection Development Disease Distal Economically Deprived Population Empirical Research Environmental Risk Factor Exhibits Female Foundations Friends Funding Guide prevention HIV Health Human Incidence Institution Intervention Knowledge Learning Life Literature Mental Health Modeling Neighborhoods Participant Perception Play Policy Research Positioning Attribute Prevalence Prevention Prevention Research Principal Investigator Public Health Public Policy Recording of previous events Reporting Research Research Design Research Institute Research Personnel Risk Risk Behaviors Risk Factors Role Schools Sex Behavior Sexually Transmitted Diseases Site Social Development Social Welfare Societies Specific qualifier value Structure Students Substance abuse problem Testing Violence Virus Diseases Youth base career design experience high risk high risk sexual behavior male middle school model design post-doctoral training programs research study social sociologist trend young adult

项目摘要

The Principal Investigator (PI) is a sociologist with knowledge and experience regarding community and . environmental factors and their relationship to the incidence and prevalence of youth and adult involvement in health-compromising behaviors in urban communities. The Social Research Center, where the PI is currently employed, is the main research campus of Friends Research Institute (FRI), a private non-profit research institution that is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge designed to enhance human welfare and ameliorate maladjustment and disease within society. For over 50 years, researchers at FRI have received federal, state, county, and private funding to conduct studies in the fields of substance abuse, health, HIV/AIDS, mental health, prevention, and criminal justice. In addition, FRI promotes pre-and post-doctoral training experiences designed to facilitate careers in behavioral, public health, and public policy research, providing research positions for talented post-graduate, graduate, and undergraduate students in the behavioral sciences. The Pi'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 are designed for urban African American youth and adults at-risk for HIV/AIDS. To that end, 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.

首席研究员（PI）是一名社会学家，拥有有关社区和社区的知识和经验。环境因素及其与城市社区中青年人参与卫生副业行为的发生率和流行的关系。 PI当前使用的社会研究中心是朋友研究所（FRI）的主要研究园区，这是一家私人非营利研究机构，致力于促进旨在增强人类福利和改善社会内部疾病和疾病的知识的发展。 50多年来，周五的研究人员已获得联邦，州，县和私人资金，以在滥用药物，健康，艾滋病毒，艾滋病，心理健康，预防和刑事司法领域进行研究。此外，FRI促进了旨在促进行为，公共卫生和公共政策研究职业的博士后培训经验，为行为科学领域的才华横溢的研究生，研究生和本科生提供研究职位。 PI的长期职业目标是成为一名独立调查员。他想将自己的职业生涯集中在开发和测试干预模型上，这些模型是为非裔美国人青年和成年人在艾滋病毒/艾滋病危险中设计的。为此，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对性行为的风险性行为。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。