HISPANIC AMERICAN/VENEZUELAN YOUTH--DRUG USE RISK FACTOR

西班牙裔美国人/委内瑞拉青年——吸毒风险因素

• 批准号: 2749112
• 负责人: Nancy Jainchill
• 金额: $ 42.14万
• 依托单位: NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-08-01 至 2000-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2749112
• 关键词: Hispanic Americans; Puerto Rico; South America; adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; culture; disease /disorder etiology; disease /disorder proneness /risk; drug abuse; health behavior; human population study; human subject; model design /development; psychological models; racial /ethnic difference; social problems; social psychology; substance abuse epidemiology

The proposed research is a comparative epidemiologic/etiologic study the purpose of which is to identify a model that explains vulnerability to drug use among youth in two Hispanic cultures. The two cultures, Venezuelan and Puerto Rican-American, share a contest for social problems characterized by poverty and changing values reflective of a transition from a culture which emphasizes family unity and group kinship to one which focuses on the individual and materialism. The study incorporates quantitative and qualitative methods with a stated approach entailing 3 phases: 1) ethnographic exploratory and qualitative analyses- 2) development of reliable and valid scales based on the ethnographic data; 3) model adaptation and testing. The cross cultural study includes 1) students in Venezuelan schools (n=1000); 2) adolescents in Venezuelan residential therapeutic communities (n=75); 3)adolescents attending the New York City after--school programs (N=1000), 4) adolescents admitted to C.U.R.A.7 an Hispanic-American therapeutic community in Newark, NJ (n=75). There are 5 inter-related aims: 1) To apply a qualitative approach through ethnographic field research which will identify culturally relevant categories of risk and protective factors; 2) To develop a culturally sensitive and relevant instrument based upon the information gathered under Aim 1. to assess risk and protective factors; 3) To develop a culturally valid and well-fitting model utilizing quantitative procedures to predict drug use among Venezuelan and Puerto Rican-American youth, and, to assess the cross-cultural equivalence of the model; 4) To conduct preliminary analyses involving a treatment sample of Venezuelan and hispanic-American (Puerto Rican) youth to assess the relative contribution of risk and protective factors for drug use; 5) To further advance a program of cross-cultural research in risk and vulnerability. This study addresses the serious issue of drug use among these groups and will contribute to the elucidation of a model that is culturally sensitive and relevant and integrative across disciplines. It is a first study in a planned sequence of systematic cross-cultural research utilizing a multidimensional perspective to understand the progression to drug use across the spectrum of Hispanic subcultures.

拟议的研究是一项比较流行病学/病因学研究， 其目的是确定一个模型，解释脆弱性， 两种西班牙文化中的年轻人吸毒情况。 两种文化， 委内瑞拉人和波多黎各裔美国人，分享社会问题的竞争 以贫困和反映转型的不断变化的价值观为特征 从一个强调家庭团结和群体亲属关系的文化， 关注个人和物质主义。 该研究纳入了 定量和定性方法，规定方法， 阶段：1）人种学探索性和定性分析- 2） 基于民族志数据开发可靠有效的量表; 3)模型适配和测试。 跨文化研究包括1） 委内瑞拉学校的学生（n=1000）; 2）委内瑞拉的青少年 住院治疗社区（n=75）; 3）参加 纽约市课后计划（N=1000），4）青少年入学 C.U.R.A.7是一个位于新泽西州纽瓦克的西班牙裔美国人治疗社区（n=75）。 有5个相互关联的目标：1）采用定性方法 通过人种学实地研究， 相关的风险和保护因素类别; 2）制定一个 文化上敏感和相关的文书 在目标1下聚集。评估风险和保护因素; 3） 开发一个文化上有效的和良好的拟合模型，利用定量 预测委内瑞拉人和波多黎各裔美国人吸毒的程序 青年，并评估该模式的跨文化等效性; 4） 进行初步分析，涉及委内瑞拉的治疗样本 和西班牙裔美国人（波多黎各人）的青年，以评估相对 5）进一步加强毒品使用的风险和保护因素; 推进风险和脆弱性跨文化研究方案。 这项研究探讨了这些群体中严重的吸毒问题， 将有助于阐明一个具有文化敏感性的模式， 相关性和跨学科的综合性。 这是第一个研究， 一个有计划的系统的跨文化研究序列， 从多维角度了解吸毒的进展 在西班牙裔亚文化的范围内。