CHRONIC DRUG USE, DEPRESSION, AND LABOR SUPPLY

描述：（申请人摘要） 迈阿密大学健康服务研究中心最近收集了 关于长期吸毒者和非吸毒者的广泛社区信息 使用者（NDU）检查卫生服务利用、获得和 成本调查工具包含人口统计学、健康、 状态、生活方式行为和劳动力市场活动。它还包括 20-项目Zung抑郁自评量表（SDS）。的主要目的 一个小的赠款申请是使用这个独特的数据集来分析 CDU和NDU中药物使用与抑郁症之间的关系，以及 这些条件对劳动力市场决策的影响。一些研究人员 研究了吸毒与劳动力市场问题之间的关系，但没有研究 使用基于社区的数据来调查同时发生和混淆的 抑郁症和药物使用对劳动力市场行为的影响。本研究 该项目将实现以下具体目标： 1.检查CDU、抑郁症的患病率以及 CDU和抑郁症在一个以社区为基础的样本的个人。 2.估计CDU和抑郁对抑郁症的主效应和交互效应， 就业的可能性。 3.在被雇用的条件下，估计主效应和交互效应， CDU和抑郁症对过去12个月工作周数的影响。 拟议的研究将为研究人员（包括Dr. 亚历山大是一位非裔美国健康经济学家，他有资格成为一位较新的， 经验丰富的研究者）使用一组独特的数据来检查 吸毒、抑郁和劳动力供应之间的关系。因为雇主 政策制定者对同时发生和混杂的 药物使用和抑郁症对劳动力市场的影响，研究和政策 这种应用的重要性是直接和广泛的。课程编写单位作为一个群体 被挑选出来进行干预和扩大研究， 国家药物管制政策。此外，美国的心理健康问题 国家已成为社区、卫生和社会服务的挑战 机构、管理式护理组织、雇主和家庭。所得 调查结果将有助于政策制定者和雇主做出决定， 在工作场所毒品控制计划和 其他替代方案，例如改善员工的心理健康。

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's Abstract) The University of Miami Health Services Research Center recently collected extensive community-based information on chronic drug users (CDUs) and non-drug users (NDUs) to examine differences in health services utilization, access, and cost. The survey instrument contains information on demographics, health status, lifestyle behaviors, and labor market activities. It also includes the 20-item Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS). The primary objective of the proposed small grant application is to use this unique set of data to analyze the relationships between drug use and depression among CDUs and NDUs, and the effects of these conditions on labor market decisions. Some researchers have examined the relationships between drug use labor market problems, but no study has used community-based data to investigate the co-occurring and confounding effects of depression and drug use on labor market behavior. This research project will pursue the following specific aims: 1. Examine the prevalence of CDU, depression, and the comorbid conditions of CDU and depression in a community-based sample of individuals. 2. Estimate the main and interaction effects of CDU and depression on the probability of employment. 3. Conditional on being employed, estimate the main and interaction effects of CDU and depression on the number of weeks worked during the past 12 months. The proposed study will provide support for the investigators (including Dr. Alexandre, an African American health economist who qualifies as a newer, less experienced investigator) to use a unique set of data to examine the relationships between drug use, depression, and labor supply. Since employers and policymakers are not well informed about the co-occurring and confounding effects of drug use and depression on the labor market, the research and policy importance of this application is immediate and widespread. CDUs as a group have been singled out for intervention and extended study by the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Moreover, mental health problems in the United States have become a challenge to communities, health and social service agencies, managed care organizations, employers, and families. The resulting findings will help policy makers and employers make decisions regarding the allocation of scarce resources between workplace drug control programs and other alternatives such as improving employees' mental health.