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

• 批准号: 8147808
• 负责人: LEE STRUNIN
• 金额: $ 32.83万
• 依托单位: BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 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/8147808
• 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; Intentional injury; 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; high risk drinking; improved; instrument; meetings; peer; prevent; public health relevance; racial and ethnic; social; theories; therapy development; university student; urban area; young adult

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）：了解不同国家 /地区的年轻人在不同饮酒规范的年轻人中使用饮酒的风险因素可以照亮保护因素，并有助于了解移民的饮酒方式。该项目的总体目标是提高对酒精相关风险和影响饮酒方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。该项目代表了我们努力确定影响饮酒模式的风险和保护性文化因素的努力。这项研究将研究酒精使用的模式，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冒险可能性的文化属性，在进入墨西哥城的一年级学生（墨西哥的最大城市地区）中，并将指示特定的文化因素是否影响信念和对酒精使用的信念。该提案对NIAAA的五年战略计划做出了回应，重点是来自不同种族和种族子人群的年轻人的饮酒行为的相似性和差异。这是一个及时的研究，因为它解决了年轻人的饮酒行为，即定期或高风险饮酒最大的年龄以及使一些年轻人停止有害饮酒方式的因素。这些发现将对墨西哥青年，墨西哥裔美国人和其他年轻人的预防计划具有实际影响，跨越移民和适应状况。我们的概念方法是通过越来越多的作品来告知的，这表明传统价值是为了防止墨西哥裔美国成年人的饮酒障碍而采取的行动，并建议将来的工作集中在墨西哥文化因素对墨西哥裔美国人中饮酒的保护性影响，以及与酒精使用有关的特定文化规范。我们将使用混合方法方法调查对饮酒模式，问题和保护的影响。研究设计要求（a）民族志访谈，以探索墨西哥饮酒文化的影响，每个偶尔，常规，重型和非饮酒者都从一项健康调查和酒精调查补充剂中确定，对大约34,000名进入一年级学生的饮酒补充剂在大一新生开始之前，在墨西哥国立大学（UNAM）（UNAM）和（b）评估酒精调查的饮酒和酒精调查量的extranty和（b）的饮酒中的extression和（b）使用实践。使用多种仪器和程序将使我们能够整合有关有影响力机制的分析，并发现文献中尚未描述的新分析。根据我们和其他人以前的工作的发现和理论，我们试图确定文化因素对墨西哥和墨西哥裔美国青年早期饮酒的影响。该项目的发现将使人们更好地理解影响墨西哥青年饮酒规范和行为的因素和环境，并为墨西哥青年的文化相关预防计划提供指南，并可能适用于美国的墨西哥裔美国人和其他年轻人 公共卫生相关性：这项研究将为解决NIAAA五年战略计划（2006年）的干预措施的发展提供介绍，重点介绍了来自不同种族和种族亚人群的年轻人的饮酒行为的相似性和差异。它还解决了年轻人的饮酒行为，即定期或高风险饮酒最大的年龄以及使一些年轻人停止有害饮酒方式的因素。