College Sports, Gender and Substance Use

大学体育、性别和药物使用

• 批准号: 6894272
• 负责人: KATHLEEN E MILLER
• 金额: $ 15.7万
• 依托单位: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-05-10 至 2007-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6894272
• 关键词: African American; adolescence (12-20); alcoholism /alcohol abuse; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; depression; exercise; gender difference; high risk behavior /lifestyle; human data; human subject; identity; longitudinal human study; marijuana abuse; play; racial /ethnic difference; secondary schools; sex behavior; socioeconomics; substance abuse epidemiology; substance abuse related behavior; substance abuse related disorder; suicide; tobacco abuse; university; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Recent research findings indicate strong associations between sports participation and adolescent health-risk behavior; for example, compared to their peers, high school athletes are at lower risk for illicit drug use, cigarette smoking, and suicide but at higher risk for binge drinking and smokeless tobacco use. These associations are in many respects gender-specific; female athletes report less sexual risk-taking than nonathletes, whereas male athletes report more. The present R21 application will extend this research to explore the effects of athletic involvement on substance use and other problem behaviors among female and male college students, examine the longitudinal effects of high school sports on young adult problem behavior, and create comprehensive new measures of athletic involvement for use in future research. Two complementary research strategies are proposed. First, cost-effective, secondary data analysis will be conducted on the Family and Adolescent Study (FAAS), a six-year longitudinal study of Western New York youth and their families (N=699) which includes self-report data on athletic participation as well as alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and other substance use, sexual risk-taking, and depression. Second, informed by findings from the FAAS, the Athletic Involvement Pilot Study (AIPS) will draw on focus group and questionnaire responses of Western New York undergraduate college student-athletes in order to design and pilot test new, multidimensional measures of athletic involvement. In its final round, the AIPS will collect data to test hypotheses about the gender-specific relationships between high school and college athletic involvement and substance use, sexual risk-taking, depression, and suicidality. This research will also serve as a basis for the development of a theory-driven R01 proposal examining factors associated with sports participation, gender, and substance use. The research has the overall aim of establishing more effective prevention and intervention strategies for reducing young adult substance use and other related health-risk behaviors.

描述（由申请人提供）：最近的研究结果表明，体育参与和青少年健康风险行为之间有很强的关联;例如，与同龄人相比，高中运动员使用非法药物，吸烟和自杀的风险较低，但酗酒和无烟烟草使用的风险较高。这些关联在许多方面都是性别特异性的;女性运动员报告的性冒险比非运动员少，而男性运动员报告的更多。目前的R21应用程序将扩展这项研究，探讨体育参与对物质使用和其他问题行为的影响，男女大学生，检查高中体育对年轻人的问题行为的纵向影响，并创建全面的新措施，体育参与在未来的研究中使用。提出了两个互补的研究策略。首先，将对家庭和青少年研究（FAAS）进行成本效益，二级数据分析，这是一项为期六年的西纽约青年及其家庭（N=699）的纵向研究，其中包括关于运动参与以及酒精，烟草，大麻和其他物质使用，性冒险和抑郁症的自我报告数据。第二，从FAAS的调查结果，运动参与试点研究（AIPS）将借鉴焦点小组和问卷调查的西部纽约大学生运动员，以设计和试点测试新的，多方面的措施，运动参与。在最后一轮中，AIPS将收集数据，以测试关于高中和大学体育参与与物质使用、性冒险、抑郁和自杀之间性别特异性关系的假设。这项研究也将作为一个理论驱动的R 01提案的发展研究与体育参与，性别和物质使用相关的因素的基础。这项研究的总体目标是建立更有效的预防和干预战略，以减少年轻人的物质使用和其他相关的健康风险行为。