Homies with aspirations and positive peer network ties: associations with reduced frequent substance use among gang-affiliated Latino youth.
Homies with aspirations and positive peer network ties: associations with reduced frequent substance use among gang-affiliated Latino youth.
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有抱负和积极的同伴网络联系的朋友：与有帮派关系的拉丁裔青年中频繁使用药物的关联。
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10.1007/s11524-014-9922-3
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2015
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Minnis,AlexandraM
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vanDommelen-Gonzalez,Evan;Deardorff,Julianna;Herd,Denise;Minnis,AlexandraM
在美国各地的边缘化城市社区，拉丁裔青年在越来越多的青年帮派中所占比例不成比例。参与帮派的青少年使用药物会带来直接和长期的健康风险，并可能威胁教育参与、未来的社会经济稳定和停止吸毒。传统的评估帮派成员的青年和他们的同伴网络忽视了积极的同伴关系可能存在的可能性，可以促进健康的行为规范。在这项研究中，我们利用一个积极的越轨行为框架，研究了与中学后教育愿望相关的积极同伴网络特征与拉丁美洲人之间的关系，来自旧金山弗朗西斯科社区的帮派成员青年经常使用酒精和大麻。使用广义估计方程回归模型跨越72个对等网络集群（162青年），我们发现，有亲密的朋友谁计划去一个4年制大学与较低的几率经常吸食大麻和酒精（OR分别为0.27，p = 0.02; 0.29，p = 0.14），并且在调整风险特征后，这种关联仍然存在（OR 0.19，p < 0.01; OR 0.25，p = 0.12）。公共卫生可以通过确定与非犯罪健康结果相关的保护性和风险因素，为参与性研究方法和基于资产的干预措施提供信息，从而促进帮派干预工作，这有助于建立健康的社区。
In marginalized urban neighborhoods across the USA, Latino youth are disproportionately represented among the growing number of youth gangs. Substance use among gang-involved youth poses both immediate and long-term health risks and can threaten educational engagement, future socioeconomic stability, and desistance. Conventional assessments of gang-affiliated youth and their peer network overlook the possibility that positive peer ties may exist and can foster health promoting behavior norms. Drawing on a positive deviance framework, in this study, we examine the relationship between positive peer network characteristics tied to post-secondary educational aspirations and frequent alcohol and marijuana use among Latino, gang-affiliated youth from a neighborhood in San Francisco. Using generalized estimating equations regression models across 72 peer network clusters (162 youth), we found that having close friends who plan to go to a 4-year college was associated with a lower odds of frequent marijuana and alcohol use (OR 0.27,p= 0.02; OR 0.29,p= 0.14, respectively) and that this association persisted when adjusting for risk characteristics (OR 0.19,p< 0.01; OR 0.25,p= 0.12). Public health can advance gang intervention efforts by identifying protective and risk factors associated with non-criminal health outcomes to inform participatory research approaches and asset-based interventions that contribute to building healthy communities.