FAMILY PROGRAM AND ADOLESCENT DRUG ABUSE

预防吸毒是美国的首要健康目标。 虽然家庭对孩子的影响深远，但严格的家庭却很少。 评估以家庭为基础的干预措施的影响 据报道，预防一般青少年群体吸毒。的 拟议研究的目的是评估对 家庭指导的青少年吸毒预防计划。烟草 酒精是重点药物。该计划通过邮件发送 以及健康教育者和患者之间的后续电话沟通 父母，基于青少年药物研究的命题，是 旨在最大限度地提高家庭的参与度，并且在 感觉如果发现有效，可以通过 干预方式多种多样，并且很容易分布在大范围内 地理区域的成本相对较低 实验设计将是 用于评估该计划对青少年吸毒的影响。 880 12-14岁的青少年及其家人将被纳入 研究。 将从学校的青少年收集数据，时间为 基线和随访时使用自填问卷。数据 将会通过电话向家长收取。多变量分析将 评估干预措施对青少年吸毒的影响，确定 影响发生的变量，确定是否 干预效果根据所选特征而变化，并且 评估作为干预基础的主张。

Preventing drug use is a priority health objective for the United States. Although families have profound influence on their children, few rigorous evaluations of the influence of family-based interventions designed to prevent drug use in general adolescent populations have been reported. The purpose of the proposed research is to evaluate the influence on adolescent drug use of a family-directed drug prevention program. Tobacco and alcohol are the focal drugs. The program, delivered through the mail and follow-up telephone communications between health educators and parents, is based on propositions from adolescent drug research, is designed to maximize participation by families, and is practical in the sense that if found to be effective it can be administered through a variety of intervention modalities and readily distributed over large geographical areas at relatively low cost An experimental design will be used to assess the influence of the program on adolescent drug use. 880 adolescents ages 12 - 14 and their families will be entered into the study. Data will be collected from adolescents in their schools at baseline and at follow-up using self-administered questionnaires. Data will be collected by telephone from parents. Multivariate analyses will assess the influence of the intervention on adolescent drug use, identify the variables through which effects occurred, determine whether intervention effects varied according to selected characteristics, and assess the propositions that are basis for the intervention.