EXTENSION OF ABAN AYA YOUTH PROJECT

描述：（申请人摘要） 延长Aban Aya青年项目（AAYP）将扩大发展 预防危害健康的干预措施的有效性试验 暴力行为，不安全的性行为（包括艾滋病毒感染）， 和物质使用，加上相关的中介变量（知识， 态度，社会规范信念，社会技能，自我效能， 在10-17岁的非洲裔美国青少年中， 芝加哥和郊区的弱势社区。 该项目目前 由少数民族健康研究办公室通过NICHHD资助， 5-7年级;拟议项目将把干预措施扩大到各年级 8-10和数据收集到8-11年级。 干预效果是 通过随机分配12所学校进行实验测试， 社会发展课程（SDC），一个密集的学校/社区方案 （S/CP）或对照条件（健康促进课程[HEC]）。 的 SDC包括有关目标行为风险的信息， 决策的 社交能力、抵抗能力、解决冲突的能力 和规范性信仰，再加上涉及家长的家庭作业。 课程 5-8年级以课堂为基础;对于9年级和10年级，我们建议五个 周六全天工作坊 S/CP包括 课堂/星期六部分加上加强家长参与，同龄人 指导、学校工作人员培训和其他组织变革，以及 学校健康促进专责小组统筹上述活动 并与社区建立联系。 所有干预措施都是 发展和文化上适当的，课程将包括 文化价值观和自豪感。 在8-10年级，该计划将 还包括改善向高中过渡的内容， 防止辍学。 港灯专注于不同的健康相关 行为（例如，营养，体力活动），但相当于SDC 在所有其他方面。 项目工作人员将提供干预措施。 每年，我们还将培训教师和其他以社区为基础的 组织工作人员参与方案交付，以确保 节目 我们收集广泛的工艺评估数据，以确定 接受程度（参与和满意度）和对 由目标受众（学生，家长， 学校人员）。 我们还收集了广泛的结果和中介变量 干预前来自学生、家长和学校工作人员的数据， 以及5-11年级结束时（该补助金为8-11年级）。

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's Abstract) Extension of the Aban Aya Youth Project (AAYP) will extend the development and efficacy trial of interventions to prevent the health-compromising behaviors of violence, unsafe sexual behaviors (including HIV infection), and substance use, plus associated mediating variables (knowledge, attitudes, social normative beliefs, social skills, self efficacy, intentions) among 10-17 year old African-American adolescents in disadvantaged neighborhoods of Chicago & suburbs. The project, currently funded by the Office for Research on Minority Health through NICHHD, targets grades 5-7; the proposed project will extend the interventions to grades 8-10 and data collection to grades 8-11. Intervention efficacy is experimentally tested by randomly assigning 12 schools to receive either a Social Development Curriculum (SDC), an intensive School/Community Program (S/CP), or a control condition (a Health Enhancement Curriculum [HEC]). The SDC includes information on the risks of the targeted behaviors, decision-making. social competence, resistance skills, conflict resolution, and normative beliefs, plus homework that involves parents. The curriculum is classroom-based for grades 5-8; for grades 9 & 10, we propose five all-day Saturday workshops each year. The S/CP consists of the classroom/Saturday component plus enhanced parental involvement, peer mentoring, school staff training and other organizational changes, and a Local School Health Promotion Task Force to coordinate the above activities and also to forge links with the community. All intervention components are developmentally and culturally appropriate, and the curriculum will include elements on cultural values and pride. At grades 8-10, the program will also include components to improve the transition to high school and to prevent school drop-out. The HEC focusses on different health-related behaviors (e.g., nutrition, physical activity), but is equivalent to the SDC in all other ways. Project staff will deliver the intervention components. Each year, we will also train teachers and other community-based organization staff in program delivery to ensure ongoing implementation of the program. We collect extensive process evaluation data to determine the levels of acceptance (participation and satisfaction) and expectations of the intervention components by the target audience(s) (students, parents, school personnel). We also collect extensive outcome and mediator variable data from students, parents and school personnel prior to the intervention, and at the end of grades 5-11 (grades 8-11 on this grant).