Acculturation and Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention

描述(由申请人提供)： K01的长期目标是扩大申请者在文化适应和青少年药物滥用预防领域的研究能力。申请者的临床背景和研究经验涉及青少年药物滥用、种族认同和预防项目，主要涉及定性方法。本申请提出了指导、培训和监督研究的结构化计划，以提高她进行高质量研究的能力，将最先进的定性和定量方法结合在一起。K01将通过以下具体目标实现这一目标：目标1)提供结构化的计划，包括：1)由全国知名的联邦资助研究人员组成的团队进行指导；2)理论、方法和干预设计领域的课程工作；3)对全国知名的药物滥用研究中心进行培训访问，以收集有关理论、方法、干预策略、项目管理和资质的信息。目的2是提供有监督的研究经验，使申请者能够探索文化适应和族裔认同的作用及其对预防多族裔高危青年的影响。申请者将与亚利桑那州立大学(Marsiglia)和宾夕法尼亚大学(Hecht)的共同导师合作实施耐药性战略(DRS-4)项目，这是一项以学校为基础的预防课程，具有文化适应的组成部分。具体地说，申请者的参与将包括来自申请者初步研究的两项创新：1)在亚利桑那州的DRS干预中增加扩展的概念化和适应和文化压力结构的测量，以及2)在奥斯汀的DRS中对社区地点的多民族青年进行探索性测试，这些地点有高危青年，通常被校本计划排除在外。奥斯汀部分将涉及定性和定性技术。目标3是设计一个R01应用程序，以开发和评估社区环境中高危青年的新的适应文化的适当预防方法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term objective of the K01 is to expand the applicant's research capabilities in the area of acculturation and adolescent drug abuse prevention. The applicant's clinical background and research experience have been in the areas of adolescent substance abuse, ethnic identity, and prevention programs, largely involving qualitative methodologies. The present application proposes a structured program of mentoring, training, and supervised research to increase her capacity to conduct high-quality research blending state of the art qualitative and quantitative methodologies. This K01 will accomplish this through the following specific aims: AIM 1 is to provide a structured program of: 1) mentoring by a team of nationally known federally-funded researchers, 2) course work in areas of theory, methodology, and intervention design, and 3) training visits to nationally known substance abuse research centers to gather information regarding theory, methodology, intervention strategy, project management, and grantsmanship. AIM 2 is to provide a supervised research experience to allow the applicant to explore the role of acculturation and ethnic identification and their implications for prevention with multi-ethnic high-risk youth. The applicant will collaborate with Co-mentors at Arizona State University (Marsiglia) and University of Pennsylvania (Hecht) in the implementation of the Drug Resistance Strategies (DRS-4) project, a school based prevention curriculum with an acculturation component. Specifically, the applicant's involvement will incorporate two innovations stemming from the applicant's preliminary studies: 1) addition of expanded conceptualization and measurement of the acculturation and acculturative stress constructs to the DRS intervention in Arizona, and 2) exploratory testing of the DRS in Austin with multiethnic youth in community-based sites with high-risk youth often excluded by school-based programs. The Austin component will involve qualitative and qualitative techniques. AIM 3 is to design an R01 application to develop and evaluate new acculturatively appropriate prevention approaches with high-risk youth in community settings.