Race and Family Factors in Adolescent Drug Use

描述（由申请人提供）：这项拟议研究的目的是调查家庭因素和其他社会背景与非洲裔美国人和白色青少年对毒品的看法和使用的关系。这些信息将有助于设计和实施预防性干预计划，为黑人青少年。由于需要进行更多的研究，为黑人青年毒品问题设计预防性干预措施的任务受到阻碍。虽然一些研究提供了有关黑人青年吸毒和相关问题的证据，但对于一些被假设为对吸毒现象至关重要的因素仍然存在疑问。这项拟议中的研究需要两年的资金来调查黑人和白色青少年使用毒品和酒精的差异。拟议的研究有三大目标。第一个是调查的作用，父母的行为和做法的黑人和白色青少年作为一个因素，在使用药物。第二是调查在不同家庭结构的背景下，父母的行为和做法如何可能是黑人和白色青少年使用药物的一个因素。由于可能与家庭社会经济地位（SES）的联系，我们还将调查家庭SES作为青少年吸毒的一个因素。第三个目的是调查黑人和白色青少年的同伴使用，宗教信仰和邻里凝聚力之间的父母行为和做法和药物使用的可能中介作用。 这项拟议的研究是作为现有调查数据的二级数据分析结构。我们建议使用的数据来检查这些问题是从国家青少年健康纵向研究（AddHealth），在美国7至12年级的青少年在1995年的全国代表性研究。该研究旨在调查青少年健康，健康行为和关系以及其他问题。数据是纵向设计的，有两波研究数据。对大约20 000名青少年进行了调查，青少年的父母提供了更多的数据。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this proposed research is to investigate family factors and other social contexts in relationship to the perception and use of drugs among African-American and white adolescents. Such information will be useful for the design and implementation of preventive intervention programs for black adolescents. The task of designing preventive interventions for drug problems for black youth is hampered by the fact that more research is needed. While several studies have provided evidence concerning drug use and related problems among black youth, questions remain about some of the factors hypothesized to be critical to the phenomenon of drug use. The proposed research requests two years of funding to investigate differences in the use of drugs and alcohol by black and white adolescents. The proposed study has three broad aims. The first is to investigate the role of parenting behavior and practices for black and white adolescents as a factor in the use of drugs. The second is to investigate how parenting behavior and practices in the context of different family structures may be a factor in the use of drugs for black and white adolescents. Because of possible links with family socioeconomic status (SES), we will also investigate family SES as a factor in adolescent drug use. The third aim is to investigate the possible mediating role of peer use, religiosity and neighborhood cohesion between parenting behavior and practices and drug use for black and white adolescents. This proposed research is structured as a secondary data analysis of existing survey data. The data we propose to use to examine these issues is from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (AddHealth), a nationally representative study of adolescents in grades 7 through 12 in the United States in 1995. The study was designed to investigate adolescent health, health behavior and relationships, and other issues. The data are longitudinal in design, and two waves of study data are available. Approximately 20,000 adolescents were surveyed, and additional data is available from the parents of the adolescents.