Haitian Youth: Risk of Drug Use and HIV Infection

描述(由申请人提供)：由于艾滋病毒和艾滋病继续肆虐美国的少数族裔人口，这些群体的青少年成员尤其令人担忧。根据信息，海地青少年出现 可供调查小组使用，从而招致艾滋病毒感染的显著风险。 最近移民、家庭重组、先前存在的情况 健康信念和性价值观的重新制定都有助于海地 青少年的风险不断恶化，但到目前为止，这些风险还没有得到充分的 具有为防止进一步风险的努力提供必要的指导的特点 在这群人中。拟议的研究将进行彻底的人种学研究。 迈阿密/戴德县海地青年危险行为调查 使用人种学方法进行的初步调查揭示了风险的模式 在需要进一步和更深入检查的年轻海地人中。 300名青少年的反应，年龄范围为13-18岁，从已知的生境招募 海地青年将提供有关社会人口特征的宝贵数据 并为开放式面试和其他类型的 深入研究。除了深入采访外，研究小组还将 对青年在自然栖息地进行非正式观察，深入采访 和家人在一起，和同龄人一起关注小组。通过这种方式收集的材料将 录制、转录成电子文件、对内容进行编码和分析 使用开发的软件进行定性分析。对这些数据的分析将 提供有关性价值观和他们的研究问题的答案 移民背景下的形成，海地青年和他们的性别角色 与风险的关系，药物使用在风险中的作用，以及其他有助于 来定义这一人群中风险的性质。这项研究的结果将 不仅用于指导制定预防方案，而且还用于 在构建广泛应用的调查方面提供重要信息 迈阿密/戴德海地社区的风险。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As HIV and AIDS continue to ravage minority populations in the United States, adolescent members of these groups attract particular concern. Haitian adolescents appear, based on information available to the investigative team, to incur notable risk of HIV infection. Circumstances of recent immigration, familial re-organization, pre-existing health beliefs, and re-formulation of sexual values all contribute to Haitian adolescent's worsening risk, but as yet these risks have not been adequately characterized to provide necessary guidance to efforts to prevent further risk in this group. The proposed study will be conducted thorough ethnographic investigation of risky behavior among Haitian Youth in Miami/Dade County. Preliminary investigations using ethnographic methods revealed patterns of risk among young Haitians that demand further and more in-depth examination. Responses of 300 adolescents, age range 13-18, recruited from known habitats of Haitian youth will provide valuable data about sociodemographic characteristics and provide an entryway for open-ended interviewing and other varieties of in-depth studies. In addition to in-depth interviews, the research team will conduct informal observations of youth in natural habitat, in-depth interviews with families and focus groups with peers. Materials collected in this way will be recorded, transcribed to electronic files, coded for content, and analyzed using software developed for qualitative analysis. Analyses of these data will provide the answers to research questions regarding sexual values and their formation in an immigrant setting, gender roles among Haitian youth and their relation to risk, the role of drug use in risk, and other questions that help to define the nature of risk in this population. Results from this study will serve not only to guide the formulation of prevention programs but also to provide important information in the construction of broadly applied surveys on risk in the Haitian community in Miami/Dade.