Culturally-Appropriate Treatment for Native Americans

适合美洲原住民文化的待遇

• 批准号: 6561075
• 负责人: Kamilla L. Venner
• 金额: $ 12.73万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-30 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6561075
• 关键词: Native Americans; adult human (21+); alcoholism /alcohol abuse therapy; alternative medicine; clinical research; culture; gender difference; health behavior; health care service availability; health care service evaluation; health care service utilization; human subject; human therapy evaluation; interview; patient oriented research; questionnaires; remission /regression; self help; substance abuse epidemiology

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There are ongoing debates but very few empirical data regarding the development of culturally appropriate treatment methods for alcohol use disorders among Native Americans. The usual research-practice gap is further widened by the fact that many Indian people receive substance abuse treatment through separate programs specifically for Native American clientele but not usually empirically based. The University of New Mexico requests early career development and training support for Dr. Kamilla Venner, whose primary research interests are in the advancement of treatment methods for Native American peoples. Her training plan focuses on the development of independent investigator skills in three areas: (1) research design, statistics and grant-writing (2) research management skills and (3) training therapists to provide manual-guided therapies for use in future clinical trials. Each of these areas is incorporated into an integrated sequence of coursework, mentored research experience, training with expert colleagues and scientific writing. Her research plan builds upon her predoctoral research studying processes of recovery from alcohol dependence among Native Americans. One hundred Native Americans will be recruited to provide quantitative and qualitative data designed to describe the severity of alcohol problems, create a chronology of events used to resolve alcohol dependence, and examine factors contributing to change and maintenance. This research will yield the first empirical study examining the natural history of recovery events among Native Americans, and will contribute new cross-cultural knowledge regarding successful methods for resolving alcohol dependence. The primary goal of the proposed research is to advance knowledge about how current evidence-based treatment methods could be modified or supplemented to be more culturally appropriate for treating Native American patients and in training Native American practitioners. Dr. Venner's career plan includes the development of R03 and R01 proposals to develop and test such treatment methods within Indian-specific treatment services, thus forming a strong foundation for a research scientist career.

描述（由申请人提供）：关于美洲原住民酒精使用障碍的文化适当治疗方法的发展，目前正在进行辩论，但经验数据很少。通常的研究实践差距进一步扩大的事实，许多印度人接受药物滥用治疗，通过单独的计划，专门为美洲原住民客户，但通常不是经验为基础的。新墨西哥州的大学要求早期的职业发展和培训支持博士卡米拉·温纳，其主要研究兴趣是在治疗方法的美洲土著人民的进步。她的培训计划侧重于三个领域的独立研究者技能的发展：（1）研究设计，统计和赠款写作（2）研究管理技能和（3）培训治疗师提供手动指导治疗用于未来的临床试验。这些领域中的每一个都被纳入课程作业，指导研究经验，与专家同事和科学写作的培训的综合序列。她的研究计划建立在她的博士前研究基础上，研究美洲原住民酒精依赖的康复过程。将招募100名美国原住民提供定量和定性数据，旨在描述酒精问题的严重程度，创建用于解决酒精依赖的事件年表，并检查有助于改变和维持的因素。这项研究将产生第一个实证研究，研究美洲原住民之间的恢复事件的自然历史，并将有助于新的跨文化知识的成功方法，解决酒精依赖。 拟议研究的主要目标是推进关于如何修改或补充现有循证治疗方法的知识，使其在文化上更适合治疗美洲原住民患者和培训美洲原住民从业者。Venner博士的职业规划包括R03和R01提案的开发，以在印度特定的治疗服务中开发和测试这种治疗方法，从而为研究科学家的职业生涯奠定了坚实的基础。