THE TRI-ETHNIC CENTER FOR PREVENTION RESEARCH

摘要：三民族预防研究中心旨在成为全国预防药物滥用研究的资源，特别重视少数民族和农村青年。该中心将继续是科学家和政策制定者获取农村和农村少数民族人口(包括非裔美国人和美国印第安人)药物滥用信息的主要接入点，并将继续为少数民族社区的实地工作人员提供传播和技术转让。该中心是多学科的，是跨学科的基于理论的研究的来源。该中心对少数民族吸毒的病因学研究有着悠久的历史。在这个拟议的项目中，它将确定社区和学校特征如何影响农村和少数民族社区青少年吸毒率。该中心在少数民族群体吸毒的病因研究方面有很长的历史。在这个拟议的项目中，它将确定社区和学校特征如何影响农村和少数民族社区青少年吸毒率，并将探索文化、社会和心理特征如何相互作用，导致农村少数民族青年滥用药物。该中心也有测试预防干预措施的研究历史，包括评估以学校为基础的预防计划，测试农村少数民族社区变化的方法，测试农村社区媒体的使用，以及测试针对作为风险因素的个人特征的认知行为治疗。在这个拟议的项目中，该中心将测试由中心研究产生的三种类型的预防计划：(1)利用该中心制定的改变农村社区变化的方法，在全州范围内减少甲基苯丙胺和其他药物的使用；(2)专门针对农村少数民族社区的媒体宣传活动，以减少青少年烟草的使用(并测试以确定当地同龄人的环境是否增强了媒体的影响)；以及(3)认知行为治疗，其减少特质愤怒，从而减少物质使用，更重要的是，治疗是否减少了愤怒和物质使用相结合所导致的暴力和受害。该中心由一个核心项目和五个研究项目组成。每项研究内容的摘要列在提案该部分之前。

Summary: The Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research is designed to be a national resource for research on the prevention of drug abuse, with a special emphasis on ethnic minority and rural youth. The Center will continue to be a primary access point for scientists and policy makers for information about drug abuse in rural and rural ethnic minority populations, including African Americans, and American Indians, and will continue to provide dissemination and technology transfer for field workers in ethnic minority communities. The Center is multi-disciplinary and has served as a source for research based theory that cuts across academic disciplines. The Center has a long history of research on the etiology of drug use in ethnic minority groups. During this proposed project, it will determine how community and school characteristics influence local rates of adolescent drug use in rural, ethnic minority communities The Center has a long history of research on the etiology if drug use in ethnic minority groups. During this proposed project, it will determine how community and school characteristics influence local rates of adolescent drug use in rural, ethnic minority communities and it will explore how cultural, social, and psychological characteristics interact to produce drug abuse among rural ethnic minority youth. The Center also has a history of research that tests prevention interventions, including evaluating school-based prevention programs, testing methods for community change in rural ethnic minority communities, testing the use of media in rural communities, and testing cognitive behavioral treatments aimed at individual traits that are risk factors. During this proposed project it will test three types of prevention programs growing out of Center research: (1) a state-wide initiative to reduce use of methamphetamines and other drugs, using the Center developed methods for producing change in rural communities; (2) media campaigns specifically tailored for rural ethnic minority communities to reduce adolescent tobacco use (and tests to determine whether environment of local peers enhances media effects); and (3) cognitive behavioral treatments that reduce trait anger, leading to reductions in substance use and, and more important, whether treatment reduces the violence and victimization that result form the combination of anger and substance use. The Center consists of a Core and five research projects. An abstract for each of the research components appears next before that part of the proposal.