Culturally-Appropriate Treatment for Native Americans

适合美洲原住民文化的待遇

• 批准号: 6943390
• 负责人: Kamilla L. Venner
• 金额: $ 13.45万
• 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/6943390
• 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）：存在持续的辩论，但关于在美洲原住民中为饮酒障碍的文化适当治疗方法发展的经验数据很少。许多印度人通过专门针对美洲原住民客户而不是基于验证的单独计划接受药物滥用治疗的事实进一步扩大了通常的研究实践差距。新墨西哥大学要求对卡米拉·维纳（Kamilla Venner）博士的早期职业发展和培训支持，其主要研究兴趣是为美洲原住民提供治疗方法的发展。她的培训计划着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（2）研究管理技能和（3）培训治疗师提供手动指导的疗法，以在未来的临床试验中使用。这些领域中的每个领域都纳入了课程的综合顺序，指导的研究经验，与专家同事和科学写作的培训。她的研究计划是基于她的研究前研究的研究，从而从美洲原住民中的酒精依赖中恢复的过程进行了研究。将招募一百个美洲原住民，以提供定量和定性数据，旨在描述酒精问题的严重性，创建用于解决酒精依赖性的事件的年表，并研究导致变化和维持的因素。这项研究将产生首次研究美国原住民恢复事件的自然历史的实证研究，并将为解决酒精依赖的成功方法提供新的跨文化知识。 拟议研究的主要目的是提高有关如何修改或补充当前基于证据的治疗方法的知识，以便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博士的职业计划包括开发R03和R01的建议，以在印度特定的治疗服务中开发和测试此类治疗方法，从而为研究科学家职业奠定了坚实的基础。