Social Meanings of Drugs for Asian American Youth

毒品对亚裔美国青年的社会意义

• 批准号: 6926444
• 负责人: JULIET P LEE
• 金额: $ 41.39万
• 依托单位: PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RES AND EVALUATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-04-05 至 2009-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6926444
• 关键词: Asian Americans; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; drug abuse; human subject; identity; interview; patient oriented research; peer group; social perception; substance abuse related behavior; urban area

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This study aims to investigate the social meanings of drugs and drug use for Asian American youth. While Asian Americans are typically considered to have low drug and alcohol use, some troubling patterns of substance use have been identified in specific subgroups; yet there have been few studies of drug and alcohol use among young Asian Americans. The Principal Investigator's preliminary study of 31 drug-involved Laotian and Cambodian youth in the San Francisco Bay Area found that drug use practices and norms are entwined with youths' sense of identity, located within a hybridized Southeast Asian youth culture, and as such these drug norms reflect locally-based constructs of drugs and drug use. Through two waves of in-depth interviews with 140 currently or formerly drug-involved Southeast Asian youths in the East Bay Area over a five-year period, this proposed project will investigate the relationship between drug constructs and sense of identity in the drug pathways of these second generation youth. The proposed study will target males and females, and track changes in drug use, sense of identity and drug constructs by conducting two waves of interviews with youths aged 15-23 at the time of the first wave of data collection. The proposed project specifically aims to: 1. Assess youths' sense of identity of themselves and their primary peer group; 2. Elicit youths' understandings of the effects, consequences, costs, and social valence of specific drugs, including validating the pilot study findings on perceived associations of specific drugs with ethnic, class, and neighborhood identities; and 3. Describe youths' pathways from experimentation to occasional or regular use of specific drugs, as well as to quitting, as these pathways relate to changing sense of self and peer group. The proposed study addresses the aims of NIH PA-02-043, which encourages research on the social and cultural dimensions of health.

描述(申请人提供)：这项研究旨在调查毒品和吸毒对亚裔美国青年的社会意义。虽然亚裔美国人通常被认为毒品和酒精使用率较低，但在特定的亚裔群体中发现了一些令人不安的药物使用模式；然而，关于年轻亚裔美国人使用毒品和酒精的研究很少。首席调查员对旧金山湾区31名与毒品有关的老挝和柬埔寨青年进行的初步研究发现，吸毒做法和规范与青年的认同感交织在一起，处于混合的东南亚青年文化中，因此，这些毒品规范反映了基于当地的毒品和吸毒的结构。 通过对东湾区140名目前或以前吸毒的东南亚青年进行为期五年的两波深入访谈，这项拟议的项目将调查这些第二代青年吸毒途径中毒品结构和认同感之间的关系。这项拟议的研究将以男性和女性为目标，通过在第一波数据收集时对15至23岁的年轻人进行两波访谈，跟踪吸毒、认同感和毒品结构的变化。拟议的项目具体旨在： 1.评估青少年对自己及其主要同辈群体的认同感； 2.促使年轻人了解特定毒品的效果、后果、成本和社会价态，包括验证关于特定毒品与种族、阶级和邻里身份认同之间的感知关联的试点研究结果；以及 3.描述青少年从尝试到偶尔或定期使用特定药物的途径，以及戒烟的途径，因为这些途径与改变自我意识和同伴群体有关。 这项拟议的研究涉及NIH PA-02-043的目标，该目标鼓励对健康的社会和文化层面进行研究。