THE TRI-ETHNIC CENTER FOR PREVENTION RESEARCH

总结：三民族预防研究中心旨在成为预防药物滥用研究的国家资源，特别侧重于少数民族和农村青年。该中心将继续成为科学家和决策者获取农村和农村少数民族人口（包括非裔美国人和美洲印第安人）药物滥用信息的主要途径，并将继续向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，并已作为跨学科的研究为基础的理论来源。本中心对少数民族群体吸毒的病因学有着悠久的研究历史。在这个拟议的项目中，它将确定社区和学校的特点如何影响当地农村，少数民族社区的青少年吸毒率。该中心在少数民族群体吸毒的病因学研究方面有着悠久的历史。在这个拟议的项目中，它将确定社区和学校的特点如何影响当地的青少年吸毒率在农村，少数民族社区，它将探讨如何文化，社会和心理特征相互作用，以产生药物滥用农村少数民族青年。该中心也有一个研究的历史，测试预防干预措施，包括评估以学校为基础的预防计划，在农村少数民族社区社区变化的测试方法，测试在农村社区媒体的使用，并测试针对个人特征的认知行为治疗是危险因素。在这个拟议的项目中，它将测试从中心研究中产生的三种预防方案：（1）全州范围内减少甲基苯丙胺和其他药物使用的倡议，使用中心开发的方法在农村社区产生变化;（2）专门针对农村少数民族社区开展媒体宣传活动，以减少青少年吸烟（并进行测试，以确定当地同龄人的环境是否会增强媒体效果）;以及（3）认知行为治疗，减少特质愤怒，导致减少物质使用，更重要的是，治疗是否能减少愤怒和药物使用共同导致的暴力和受害。该中心由一个核心和五个研究项目组成。每个研究组成部分的摘要出现在提案的这一部分之前。

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.