Substance use, social networks, and the geography of urban adolescents.
Substance use, social networks, and the geography of urban adolescents.
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DOI：
10.1081/lsum-200033222
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发表时间：
2004-01-01
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2
通讯作者：
Walker, Leslie
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作者：
Mason, Michael;Cheung, Ivan;Walker, Leslie
本文论证了一种以城市青年为对象的研究策略和预防方法，该方法结合了个人、社会和地理参数，以系统地了解城市青年的风险生态和保护。这项研究的主要目标是描述和分析城市青少年使用和不使用物质的社会网络；他们社交的危险和保护性环境；以及与健康结果的关系，如物质使用、抑郁和压力。地理信息系统(GIS)得出了青少年活跃的特定地点、他们对这些地点的主观评级和客观环境风险数据之间的空间关系和分析。将这些社会网络数据与地理信息系统数据进行融合，形成对城市青少年物质使用社会生态的详细描述和分析。构建了一个案例研究，以说明创建有助于解释这些关系并提供预防性应用的三维生态概况的方法。计算了用户的住宅和他们识别的危险和安全地点之间的线性距离。平均而言，用户的住所和他们确定的安全地点之间的距离是他们的住所和他们确定的危险地点之间的距离的三倍。本研究通过对青少年社会生态的详细多维度分析，为理解城市青少年物质使用提供支持。
This article demonstrates a research strategy and prevention methodology for substance using urban youth that incorporates individual, social, and geographical parameters to systematically understand the ecology of risk and protection for urban youth. The primary goal of this study was to describe and analyze substance using and nonusing urban adolescents' social networks; risky and protective settings where they socialize; and the relationship to health outcomes such as substance use, depression, and stress. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) derived spatial relationships and analyses between the specific locations where the teens are active, their subjective ratings of these locations, and objective environmental risk data. These social network and GIS data were merged to form a detailed description and analysis of the social ecology of urban adolescent substance use. A case study was constructed to illustrate the methodology of creating a three-dimentional ecological profile that helps explain these relationships and provides preventive applications. Linear distances were computed between the homes of the users and the risky and safe places that they identified. On average, the distance between users' homes and their identified safe places was three times the distance between their homes and their identified risky places. This study provides support for understanding urban adolescent substance use through the detailed and multiple dimensional analysis of teens' social ecologies.