Alcohol-Related Risk and Protective Factors among Mexican Students

墨西哥学生与酒精相关的风险和保护因素

基本信息

批准号：
7985800
负责人：
LEE STRUNIN
金额：
$ 42.51万
依托单位：
BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2010
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2010-09-25 至 2014-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7985800
关键词：
Accidental Injury Acculturation Address Adult Affect Age Alcohol abuse Alcohol consumption Alcohols Attitude Behavior Belief Characteristics Cities Country Data Development Ethnic group Ethnography Future Gender Goals Guidelines Heavy Drinking Immigrant Immigration Influentials Interview Italy Lead Life Literature Marital Status Methods Mexican Mexican Americans Mexico National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Outcome Pattern Pilot Projects Play Population Prevalence Prevention program Preventive Intervention Procedures Qualitative Methods Research Research Design Research Personnel Risk Risk Behaviors Risk Factors Risk-Taking Role Source Strategic Planning Students Survey Methodology Surveys Universities Work Youth alcohol behavior alcohol use disorder base drinking drinking behavior drinking onset early alcohol use early drinking high risk drinking improved instrument meetings peer prevent public health relevance racial and ethnic social theories therapy development university student urban area young adult

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Understanding risk factors for alcohol use among young people in different countries with different drinking norms can illuminate protective factors and help understand drinking patterns of immigrants. The overall goal of this project is to improve understanding of alcohol-related risk and protective factors that influence drinking patterns and have the potential to play a positive role in preventive interventions. The project represents a continuation of our efforts to identify risk related and protective cultural factors that influence drinking patterns. The research will investigate patterns of alcohol use including alcohol related risk behavior and protective factors, cultural attributes that may modify or prevent the likelihood of risk taking, among entering first year university students in Mexico City, the largest urban area in Mexico, and will indicate whether specific cultural factors affect beliefs and behaviors about alcohol use. This proposal responds to the NIAAA Five Year Strategic Plan focus on the similarities and differences in drinking behaviors of young people from different racial and ethnic sub-populations. This is a timely study, as it addresses drinking behaviors of young people at the age at which periodic or high-risk drinking is greatest as well as factors that allow some young adults to discontinue harmful drinking patterns. The findings will have practical implications for prevention programs for both Mexican youths and Mexican American and other ethnic groups of young people in the U.S. across immigration and acculturation status. Our conceptual approach is informed by a growing body of work suggesting that traditional values act to protect against alcohol use disorders among Mexican American adults, and recommending future work be focused on the protective impact of Mexican cultural factors on alcohol use among Mexican Americans and culture-specific norms pertaining to alcohol use. We will investigate influences on drinking patterns, problems and protections using a mixed method approach. The research design calls for (a) ethnographic interviews to explore the influence of the Mexican drinking culture with 30 each occasional, regular, heavy and non drinkers identified from a wellness survey and alcohol survey supplement of approximately 34,000 entering first year university students prior to the start of the freshman year at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) and (b) a revised alcohol survey supplement based on the findings of the ethnographic interviews to assess prevalence and correlates of alcohol use practices. The use of multiple instruments and procedures will allow us to integrate analyses on influential mechanisms and discover new ones not yet described in the literature. Drawing upon findings and theory from both our and others' previous work, we seek to identify the effects of cultural factors on early alcohol use among Mexican and Mexican American youths. The findings from this project will lead to a better understanding of factors and settings that influence drinking norms and behavior of Mexican youths and provide guidelines for the development of culturally relevant prevention programs for Mexican youths and may be applicable for Mexican American youths and other young people in the U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This research will inform the development of interventions addressing the NIAAA Five Year Strategic Plan (2006) focus on the similarities and differences in drinking behaviors of young people from different racial and ethnic sub-populations. It also addresses the drinking behaviors of young people at the age at which periodic or high-risk drinking is greatest as well as factors that allow some young adults to discontinue harmful drinking patterns.

描述（由申请人提供）：了解具有不同饮酒规范的不同国家的年轻人饮酒的风险因素可以阐明保护因素，并有助于了解移民的饮酒模式。该项目的总体目标是提高对酒精相关风险和影响饮酒模式的保护因素的了解，并有可能在预防干预措施中发挥积极作用。该项目代表了我们继续努力识别影响饮酒模式的风险相关和保护性文化因素。该研究将调查墨西哥最大城市墨西哥城的一年级大学生的饮酒模式，包括与酒精相关的风险行为和保护因素、可能改变或阻止冒险可能性的文化属性，并将表明特定的文化因素是否影响饮酒的信念和行为。该提案响应了 NIAAA 五年战略计划，重点关注不同种族和民族亚人群的年轻人饮酒行为的异同。这是一项及时的研究，因为它解决了年轻人在周期性或高风险饮酒最严重的年龄的饮酒行为，以及允许一些年轻人停止有害饮酒模式的因素。研究结果将对墨西哥青少年、墨西哥裔美国人和美国其他族裔青少年的移民和文化适应状况的预防计划产生实际影响。我们的概念方法是基于越来越多的工作，这些工作表明传统价值观可以保护墨西哥裔美国人成年人免受酒精使用障碍，并建议未来的工作重点关注墨西哥文化因素对墨西哥裔美国人和文化中酒精使用的保护性影响。有关饮酒的具体规范。我们将使用混合方法来调查对饮酒模式、问题和保护的影响。研究设计要求 (a) 进行人种学访谈，以探索墨西哥饮酒文化的影响，对 30 名偶尔饮酒者、经常饮酒者、重度饮酒者和不饮酒者分别进行调查，调查对象为大约 34,000 名大学一年级学生。墨西哥国立大学 (UNAM) 大一新生的开始；(b) 根据民族志访谈的结果修订酒精调查补充，以评估酒精使用习惯的流行率和相关性。多种仪器和程序的使用将使我们能够整合对影响机制的分析，并发现文献中尚未描述的新机制。根据我们和其他人之前工作的发现和理论，我们试图确定文化因素对墨西哥和墨西哥裔美国青少年早期饮酒的影响。该项目的研究结果将有助于更好地了解影响墨西哥青少年饮酒规范和行为的因素和环境，并为墨西哥青少年制定文化相关的预防计划提供指导，并可能适用于墨西哥裔美国青少年和其他青少年在美国公共健康相关性：这项研究将为制定针对 NIAAA 五年战略计划（2006 年）的干预措施提供信息，该计划重点关注来自不同种族和民族亚人群的年轻人饮酒行为的异同。它还涉及周期性或高风险饮酒最严重的年轻人的饮酒行为，以及使一些年轻人停止有害饮酒模式的因素。