DRUG USE IN RURAL ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITIES

农村少数民族社区的毒品使用情况

• 批准号: 6506239
• 负责人: RUTH W EDWARDS
• 金额: $ 6.18万
• 依托单位: COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-30 至 2002-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6506239
• 关键词: African American; Mexican Americans; adolescence (12-20); age difference; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; community; culture; disease /disorder proneness /risk; drug abuse; drug abuse information system; family structure /dynamics; gender difference; health surveys; human subject; interview; longitudinal human study; low socioeconomic status; racial /ethnic difference; religion; rural area; secondary schools; social psychology; student dropouts

Project II: This project will determine, for the first time, whether there are differences in how school and community characteristics are related to drug use rates in rural ethnic minority communities. The first part of the project is a secondary data analysis, combining existing data from two sources, (1) a survey of a stratified random sample of 180 rural communities across the U.S. and (2) a survey of 30 rural African American and 30 rural Mexican American communities. The surveys in these communities provide data on drug use by 7th through 12th grade students, as well as data on social and psychological risk factors for drug use and cultural identification. Information on school and community characteristics will be available from the census (including the past census and a census that will be run during the course of this project), from the School Data Book and from telephone interviews with key informants in each community. Except for the new census, the data collection for phase I, the secondary data analysis, will be complete by the time this project begins. Community characteristics include rurality and is9lation, poverty, education level and dropout, crime and violence, community instability, community cohesiveness and attachment, industrial structure, family disorganization, family cohesiveness and extended family, religious heterogeneity, ethnic heterogeneity, age structure, and gender normals and roles. Hierarchical linear modeling will be used to determine how community characteristics relate to drug use and how these relationships may differ in ethnic minority communities. The second phase of the study will determine, for the first time, how community characteristics relate to change in drug use rates in rural communities and whether there are differences related to ethnic minority communities. The study will involve two waves of re-surveying, one three years and one five years after the initial survey. Resurveyed will be the 30 African American and 30 Mexican American communities and a matched sample of 30 non-minority communities. The surveys and survey methods are identical for all waves. Hierarchical linear modeling will be used to determine how characteristics of these rural communities related to changes in drug use over time.

项目二：该项目将首次确定在农村少数民族社区，学校和社区特点与药物使用率之间是否存在差异。该项目的第一部分是二级数据分析，结合两个来源的现有数据，（1）对美国180个农村社区的分层随机抽样调查，（2）对30个非洲裔美国人和30个墨西哥裔美国人农村社区的调查。在这些社区进行的调查提供了关于7至12年级学生吸毒情况的数据，以及关于吸毒和文化认同的社会和心理风险因素的数据。关于学校和社区特点的资料将来自普查（包括过去的普查和将在本项目期间进行的普查）、学校数据手册和对每个社区主要信息提供者的电话采访。除新的普查外，第一阶段的数据收集，即二级数据分析，将在本项目开始时完成。社区特征包括农村性和隔离性、贫困、教育水平和辍学、犯罪和暴力、社区不稳定性、社区凝聚力和依恋、产业结构、家庭解体、家庭凝聚力和大家庭、宗教异质性、种族异质性、年龄结构、性别规范和角色。分层线性模型将用于确定社区特征与药物使用的关系，以及这些关系在少数民族社区中的差异。研究的第二阶段将首次确定社区特征与农村社区毒品使用率变化的关系，以及是否存在与少数民族社区有关的差异。这项研究将包括两次重新调查，一次是在初次调查后三年，一次是在五年。将重新调查30个非洲裔美国人和30个墨西哥裔美国人社区以及30个非少数族裔社区的匹配样本。所有波的测量和测量方法都是相同的。分层线性模型将被用来确定这些农村社区的特点如何与药物使用的变化随着时间的推移。