Substance use by African-American youth: Spanning two complementary datasets

非裔美国青年的药物使用情况：跨越两个互补数据集

• 批准号: 8076791
• 负责人: Julie M Maslowsky
• 金额: $ 3.37万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-05-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8076791
• 关键词: Adolescence; Adolescent; African American; Age; Alcohol consumption; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Alcohols; American; Birth; Caucasians; Caucasoid Race; Cigarette; Collaborations; Data; Data Set; Development; Developmental Process; Discipline; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Future; Goals; Grant; Health; Individual; Knowledge; Laboratory Research; Laboratory Study; Learning; Life; Literature; Longitudinal Studies; Low income; Manuscripts; Marijuana; Marijuana Smoking; Measures; Mediating; Mediation; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Modeling; Monitor; Parenting behavior; Pathway interactions; Population; Prevalence; Prevention program; Preventive Intervention; Principal Investigator; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Risk; Role; Sampling; Science; Students; Substance Use Disorder; Surveys; Symptoms; Testing; Time; Training; Writing; Youth; career; early onset substance use; experience; intervention program; longitudinal analysis; meetings; multidisciplinary; programs; skills; symposium; underage drinking; young adult

The proposed research examines cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships of depression and conduct problems to use of marijuana, cigarettes, and alcohol in an understudied population, African-American adolescents. Data from this project are drawn from two unique studies: Monitoring the Future (MTF), a large, national study of substance use and related constructs and SCHOO-BE, a laboratory study of substance use and mental health in a large sample of urban African American adolescents. This project maximizes the respective advantages of survey and laboratory research by exploring longitudinal relationships of substance use and mental health and their potential common underlying mechanisms, with two aims. First, this research aims to examine the cross-sectional relationships between depression, conduct problems, and marijuana, cigarette, and alcohol use in two African American adolescent samples: SCHOO-BE and a demographically comparable sample selected from MTF. Second, this research aims to further characterize the relationships of mental health symptoms to substance use, capitalizing on strengths of each dataset by conducting longitudinal analysis in MTF of depression and conduct problems predicting future marijuana, cigarette, and alcohol use, and by testing a mediation model in SCHOO-BE in which conduct problems and depression mediate the relationship between parental support and marijuana, cigarette, and alcohol use. The current project will contribute important knowledge on the developmental trajectories of substance use in African-American adolescents. This population is underrepresented in the extant literature, and results of studies of non-African-American samples cannot be assumed to generalize to them. Research to date has revealed that African-Americans are more likely to experience substance-related problems such as substance use disorder and negative health consequences despite lower rates of use during adolescence. However, the role of mental health, specifically depression and conduct problems, in African-Americans' marijuana, cigarette, and alcohol use and their progression to problematic use has not yet been elaborated. The findings yielded by the proposed research will have immediate relevance for culturally specific prevention and intervention programs to reduce substance use by African-American youth by targeting mental health symptoms. The research training component of the project is centered on three training goals for the Principal Investigator, Julie Maslowsky: to increase grant and manuscript writing skills, expand empirical skills, and further develop her multidisciplinary professional network. The training will be accomplished over two years via a rigorous program of courses and workshops that teach the skills Julie wishes to learn, individual and lab meetings where she receives guidance on her research progress and her professional development, collaboration with colleagues from multiple disciplines, and presentations at the major multidisciplinary conferences in the field. Receipt of this training will prepare her well for her intended career as an independent developmental science researcher.

拟议的研究研究了抑郁症的横断面和纵向关系，并在非裔美国人青少年中涉及大麻，香烟和酒精的使用问题。该项目的数据来自两项独特的研究：监测未来（MTF），这是一项大型的，关于物质使用和相关结构的大型国家研究，以及Schoo-be，这是一项针对大量城市非裔美国人青少年的实验室研究。该项目通过探索物质使用和心理健康的纵向关系及其潜在的共同基础机制，从而最大程度地提高了调查和实验室研究的优势。首先，这项研究旨在检查两个非洲裔美国青少年样本中抑郁症，行为问题，大麻，香烟和酒精使用之间的横断面关系：Schoo-be和一个从MTF中选择的人口统计学样本。其次，这项研究旨在进一步表征心理健康症状与药物使用的关系，通过在抑郁症的MTF中进行纵向分析来利用每个数据集的优势，并通过在schoo中测试未来的大麻，香烟和饮酒，从而预测未来的大麻，香烟和饮酒，在这种情况下进行问题和抑郁症的育种与抑郁症之间的关系调解出父母支持和大气中的烟熏味和烟熏之间的关系。 当前的项目将在非裔美国青少年中就物质使用的发育轨迹提供重要知识。在现存的文献中，该人群的人数不足，不能假定非非洲裔美国人样本的研究结果对其进行推广。迄今为止的研究表明，尽管青春期使用率较低，但非裔美国人更有可能遇到与物质有关的问题，例如药物使用障碍和负面健康后果。然而，在非裔美国人的大麻，香烟和饮酒中，心理健康，特别是抑郁和行为问题的作用尚未阐述。拟议研究所产生的发现将与文化特定的预防和干预计划有直接的相关性，以通过瞄准心理健康症状来减少非裔美国人青年的物质使用。 该项目的研究培训部分集中在首席研究员朱莉·马斯洛夫斯基（Julie Maslowsky）的三个培训目标上：提高赠款和手稿写作技巧，扩大经验技能，并进一步发展她的多学科专业网络。培训将在两年内通过严格的课程和讲习班来完成，这些课程和讲习班讲授朱莉希望学习，个人和实验室会议的技能，在那里她获得了有关她的研究进度和专业发展的指导，与来自多个学科的同事的合作以及在该领域的主要多学科会议上的演讲。接受这项培训的收到将为她为自己作为独立发展科学研究人员的意图职业做好准备。