Methodological Developments in the Prevention of Adolescent Drug Use

预防青少年吸毒方法的进展

基本信息

批准号：
7848096
负责人：
PATRICK S MALONE
金额：
$ 15.78万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2008
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2008-07-01 至 2013-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7848096
关键词：
Address Adolescence Adolescent Adolescent Behavior African American Age Alcohol or Other Drugs use American Child Complex Data Data Analyses Data Set Development Drug usage Ethnic Origin Ethnic group European Exposure to Family Fast Track intervention Female Funding Gender Goals Grant Growth Health education Individual Intervention Knowledge Latino Link Longitudinal Surveys Measures Mediating Mediator of activation protein Methods Mexican Americans Modeling Parents Participant Pathway interactions Pattern Policy Maker Prevention Preventive Intervention Problem behavior Research Research Personnel Risk Role Rural Sampling Sex Characteristics Shapes Social Environment Specificity Statistical Methods Statistical Models Subgroup Surveys Techniques Testing Training Training Programs Work Youth adolescent drug use adolescent substance use experience high risk high school improved innovation intervention effect intervention program kindergarten knowledge base male novel parent-child communication parental monitoring peer programs research study skills social substance use prevention theories young adult youth conduct problem

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The problem of substance use among adolescents is of great concern to researchers, policy makers, and the public in terms of health, education, and social consequences. Because most data regarding substance use and its correlates have been collected in natural settings, conclusions about the causal pathways to substance use and abuse have been constrained. The goal of the training portion of this grant is to enhance. both the Pi's skills in the statistical techniques for furthering knowledge of the development and prevention of youth drug use and the Pi's knowledge base in issues relating to youth substance use with a focus on ethnic and gender differences. The goal of the research program is to apply contemporary and new methods to improve understanding about the normative developmental trajectories of substance use during adolescence and the causal mechanisms in those trajectories across a range of gender and ethnic groups. The first general aim of the research is to identify general and subpopulation-specific models of the prediction and development of normative adolescent substance use, using innovative trajectory and mixture modeling methods to analyze data from the NIDA-funded National Survey of Parents and Youth-. Given the normative trajectories in this large dataset for different ethnic and gender groups, we will then identify the ethnic- and gender-specificity of established predictors of adolescent substance use. The second general aim is to test hypotheses of mediated causal effects of an intervention on adolescent substance use in high-risk youth, using data from the NIMH-funded Fast Track project, a long-term intervention program and field experiment intended to reduce youth conduct problems. We will first test the replicability of the findings from the first general aim, then - using techniques developed in the training program - evaluate potential causal pathways and mediating relations linking the Fast Track intervention to changes in adolescent substance use. The NSPY and Fast Track datasets represent unique opportunities to study the development of substance use in both experimental and non-experimental contexts. We will use recent and novel advances in statistical modeling, in which the PI will be trained, to advance our understanding of the complex role of ethnicity, gender, and other constructs in substance use prevention.

描述（由申请人提供）：青少年中的物质使用问题对研究人员，政策制定者和公众在健康，教育和社会后果方面非常关注。由于有关物质使用及其相关性的大多数数据是在自然环境中收集的，因此限制了有关物质使用和滥用因果途径的结论。培训部分的目标是增强。 PI在统计技术方面的技能都可以进一步了解青年吸毒的发展和预防，以及PI在与青年物质使用有关的问题中的知识基础，重点是种族和性别差异。研究计划的目的是应用当代和新方法，以提高对青春期物质使用规范发展轨迹的理解，以及在一系列性别和族裔群体中这些轨迹中的因果机制。该研究的第一个总体目的是使用创新的轨迹和混合模型方法来确定规范青少年物质使用的预测和发展的一般和亚群特定模型，以分析来自NIDA资助的父母和青年调查的数据。鉴于这个针对不同种族和性别群体的大型数据集中的规范轨迹，我们将确定青少年物质使用的既定预测指标的种族和性别特异性。第二个总体目的是使用NIMH资助的快速轨道项目，一项长期干预计划和现场实验的数据来检验干预对高风险青年中青少年物质使用的介导的因果关系的假设，旨在减少青年行为问题。我们将首先测试第一个总体目标的发现的可复制性，然后 - 使用培训计划中开发的技术 - 评估潜在的因果途径，并介导将快速轨道干预与青少年物质使用变化联系起来。 NSPY和快速轨道数据集代表了研究实验和非实验环境中物质使用的开发的独特机会。我们将使用统计建模的最新和新颖的进步，其中将培训PI，以促进我们对种族，性别和其他结构在预防物质使用中的复杂作用的理解。