A High Risk Prospective Study of Drug Use and Crime

描述(由申请人证明)：建议的发育流行病学 研究的重点是导致药物使用和滥用的途径以及如何 早期使用药物会影响到中年的过渡。人口 由1966年首次研究的全部非裔美国成年人组成 当他们在伍德劳恩上一年级时，伍德劳恩是 芝加哥。他们在一年级、青春期和大多数情况下接受了评估 最近是在1992-94年间，当时他们还是年轻人。老师和家长们也已经 对各种评级背景和表现特点进行了研究 参与者。学校记录、刑事司法记录、人口普查数据和死亡 在生命过程中，曾有一次或多次获得记录。基于 我们之前的研究发现，那些在内心深处开始上学的孩子 城市社区在通往青壮年的道路上千差万别，我们是 请求更多支持以跟随这群人步入中年 (40岁出头)。我们计划重新采访这群人，并收集记录 来自国家死亡指数和人口普查局。这项研究是 旨在了解早期和持续的发展模式，从而导致 药物使用，不成功或成功的中年成年人的其他指标 角色表现和身心健康。我们将专注于 这种对个人与社会领域相关的评估是 在人生的这个阶段，最重要的可能是家庭关系 (包括父母、配偶或亲密伴侣、子女)、工作、同伴 人际关系，教会和社区的参与。与全国其他国家相比 在同一年龄段，这群人与两名罪犯的涉案率更高 活动和吸毒。虽然我们预计这些活动将有 随着年龄的增长，我们将对两者进行评估，以便我们能够及早进行调查 与有持续问题的人相比，有持续问题的人的特征 停止了。我们还将研究青少年时期的毒品和犯罪问题以及 成年早期影响了研究参与者生活的其他方面 中年，包括他们的工作、社会地位、家庭关系、社区 参与、宗教生活和身心健康。我们会 重点关注以下目标：物质使用的连续性和间断性； 就业、犯罪行为和心理状态；社会融合和 它对药物使用的影响；经济劣势的作用，作为一个 物质使用的前因后果及其对健康的影响； 宗教与灵性的相互关系与生命中的毒品使用 当然了。我们计划使用Logistic回归、生存分析、结构性 方程建模、一般估计方程、分层线性模型 我们对将收集的纵向数据的分析。

DESCRIPTION (proved by applicant): The proposed developmental epidemiological study is focused upon the paths leading to substance use and abuse and how earlier substance use affects the transition into midlife. The population consists of a total cohort of African American adults first studied in 1966 when they were in first grade in Woodlawn, an inner city neighborhood of Chicago. They were assessed in first grade, during adolescence and most recently in 1992-94 when they were young adults. Teachers and parents have also made ratings of various background and performance characteristics of the study participants. School records, criminal justice records, census data and death records have been obtained at one or more times in the life course. Based upon our previous findings that children who began their schooling within an inner city community varied dramatically in their pathways to young adulthood, we are requesting additional support to follow this cohort's course into midlife (early forties). We plan to reinterview the cohort as well as collect records from the National Death Index and the Bureau of the Census. The research is designed to understand early and continuing developmental patterns leading to substance use, other indicators of unsuccessful or successful midlife adult role performance and physical and psychological well being. We will focus in this assessment on the individual in relation to those social fields that are likely to be most salient at this stage of life: family relationships (including parents, spouses or intimate partners, children), work, peer relationships, church and community involvement. Compared to others nationally of the same age, this cohort has had higher involvement with both criminal activity and drug use. While we expect that these activities will have diminished with age, we will assess both so that we can investigate early characteristics of those with continuing problems compared to those who have ceased. We will also examine how drug and criminal problems in adolescence and early adulthood have influenced other aspects of the study participants' lives in midlife including their work, SES, family relationships, community involvement, religious life, and physical and psychological health. We will focus on the following aims: continuities and discontinuities in substance use, employment, criminal behavior, and psychological status; social integration and its impact on drug use; the role of economic disadvantage, as both an antecedent and consequence of substance use and its impact on health; the interrelationship of religion and spirituality and drug use across the life course. We plan to use logistic regression, survival analysis, structural equation modeling, general estimating equations, hierarchical linear models in our analyses of the longitudinal data that will be collected.