DISADVANTAGED YOUTH AND ALCOHOL ABUSE PREVENTION

这项研究将开发和测试干预策略，以防止 高风险青年中的酗酒和其他药物滥用。该研究 三个目标：1）制定预防酗酒的干预战略， 高风险青年中的其他药物滥用。2)测试策略， 在社区环境中对高危青少年进行的随机试验。第三章 制定和提供助推器会议，以延长和扩大干预 方面的影响. 4)通过随访对策略进行纵向评估 数据收集。5)分析个体层面的关系 青年和家长参与者的变量。 拟议的研究将分三个阶段进行。 在10个月内 在准备阶段，研究人员将制定干预措施， 测量协议，绘制具有代表性的社区样本 组织研究参与，招募和培训 干预交付代理商。 为期12个月的实施阶段将 启动临床试验的现场操作，包括预试验， 干预实施、过程数据收集和后测试。 一 研究最后几年的随访阶段将包括随访 测试、增强会话交付和数据分析。 该研究的酒精和其他物质滥用预防策略 包括技能干预，将使高风险群体 社区环境中的青少年，以及父母强化技能干预 以协助家庭成员维持青少年减低风险的努力。 通过让父母参与基于技能的干预， 协议将利用青年环境中的自然资源， 并继续努力避免酒精和其他问题 滥用药物

This study will develop and test intervention strategies to prevent alcohol and other substance abuse among high-risk youth. The study has three aims: 1) Develop intervention strategies to prevent alcohol and other substance abuse among high-risk youth. 2) Test the strategies in a randomized trial with high-risk youth in community settings. 3) Develop and deliver booster sessions to extend and expand intervention effects. 4) Longitudinally evaluate the strategies through follow-up data collections. 5) Analyze relationships among individual-level variables for youth and parent participants. The proposed study will occur in three phases. In a 10-month preparation phase, the investigators will develop intervention and measurement protocols, draw a representative sample of community organizations for study participation, and recruit and train intervention delivery agents. A 12-month implementation phase will initiate field operations of a clinical trial, including pretesting, intervention delivery, process data collection, and posttesting. A follow-up phase in the last years of the study will involve follow-up testing, booster session delivery, and data analysis. The study's alcohol and other substance abuse prevention strategy includes skills interventions that will engage groups of high-risk youths in community settings, and parent-enhanced skills intervention that will help family members sustain youths' risk reduction efforts. By engaging parents in the skills-based intervention, the prevention protocol will tap natural resources in youths' environments to nurture and sustain their efforts to avoid problems with alcohol and other substance abuse.