TRENDS AND CORRELATES OF ALCOHOL USE AMONG INDIAN YOUTH

我们过去十年的研究表明，印度年轻人的比例更高 与非印度人相比，他们的饮酒率更高。印度青年开始 饮酒的年龄更小，并且有更强烈的使用模式，因为他们 成熟。初步分析揭示了 酒精使用，但资源不能用于除 描述性研究。目前的应用是让基金分析10个 从一个更大的数据库中提取的多年酒精使用数据 研究印度青少年滥用药物的情况。数据来自9,513 被选为保留地印度青年代表的主题 在全国各地。本项目的具体目标包括1) 建立可对比的准确的流行病学记录 与非印度年轻人的饮酒率，2)比较 使用年龄组之间的方法来确定与年龄相关的模式3)研究 酒精使用的心理社会相关，4)路径的构建 用分析模型和LISREL模型预测相关性和相关性 酒精使用，以及5)结果的出版和传播。全 比较将进行统计意义和形式上的测试 结构分析将评估替代方案的预测能力 假设。

Our previous decade of research shows that Indian youth have higher rates of alcohol use than their non-Indian counterparts. Indian youth begin drinking at younger ages and have more intense patterns of use as they mature. Preliminary analyses have shed some light on the correlates of alcohol use but resources have not been available for other than descriptive studies. The present aplication is for funds to analyze ten years of data on alcohol use extracted from a larger data base collected to study drug abuse among Indian adolescents. Data are available from 9,513 subjects selected to be representative of reservation based Indian youth across the country. Specific goals of this project include 1) the construction of an accurate epidemiological record that can be contrasted with alcohol use rates of non-Indian youth, 2) a comparison of trends in use between age groups to determine age-related patterns 3) the study of psychosocial correlates of alcohol use, 4) the construction of path analytic and LISREL models to predict relationships between correlates and alcohol use, and 5) publication and dissemination of results. All comparisons will be tested for statistical significance and formal structural analyses will assess the predictive power of alternative hypotheses.