Substance use among children of Hispanic school dropouts

描述：（申请人提供）： 辍学和吸毒加剧了现有的健康差距 在美国不同的选区之间。广泛的负面健康， 经济和社会成果既来自学业失败，也来自实质性问题 使用，他们不成比例地影响弱势，少数群体青少年。在 为了打破这一循环，需要关于 学业失败和药物使用风险的代际传递。到 为此，本研究的重点是确定 可能使西班牙裔辍学儿童面临风险的特征 因为学业不及格和吸毒具体而言， 拟议的项目是研究： 1：父母教育因素与父母参与的关系 儿童的教育（即，学校参观，丰富活动，以及 鼓励孩子在学校取得成功） 2：父母教育因素、父母的 参与儿童的教育和儿童早期使用香烟， 酒精和吸入剂 3：父母参与子女的学校教育与 孩子的学习成绩 4：父母吸毒、父母教养方式和儿童 物质使用 参与拟议研究的父母一直在参加 墨西哥裔美国人辍学项目（由NIDA资助; Chavez，PI）和药物数据 使用和学校变量可供家长，因为他们是 青少年。在目前的研究中，来自墨西哥裔美国人的参与者 辍学项目和他们的孩子将在三个时间点进行测量， 孩子们在三年级，四年级和五年级。纵向数据 分析将使用结构方程模型，潜在的 转型分析和潜在增长建模。职业发展计划 包括PI获得高级统计培训的规定， 技术.职业发展计划旨在使PI能够学习 通过阅读，研讨会等了解分析技术，然后 在分析真实的数据时利用这些知识。PI是一种发展性的 在药物使用预防研究方面接受过博士后培训的心理学家。 PI最近在职业中断后重返学术界， 她认为，获得这些统计技能是不可或缺的， 她有能力开发一个外部资助的发展研究项目， 流行病学

DESCRIPTION: (Provided by Applicant): School dropout and drug use contribute to the health disparities that exist between different constituencies within the US. Wide ranging negative health, economic and social outcomes result both from school failure and from substance use, and they disproportionately affect disadvantaged, minority adolescents. In order to break this cycle, data are needed on the mechanisms of the intergenerational transmission of risk for school failure and substance use. To that end, the focus of the present study is the identification of characteristics that might put the children of Hispanic school dropouts at risk for school failure and drug abuse. Specifically, the primary aims of the proposed project are to study: 1: the relation between parental educational factors and parent involvement in child's schooling (i.e., school visitation, enrichment activities, and encouragement of child's school success) 2: the interrelations between parental educational factors, the parent's involvement in the child's schooling and the child's early use of cigarettes, alcohol, and inhalants 3: the relation between parental involvement in the child's schooling and the child's academic performance 4: the relation between parental drug use, parenting practices, and children's substance use The parents included in the proposed study have been participating in the Mexican American dropout project (funded by NIDA; Chavez, PI) and data on drug use and school variables are available for the parents since they were adolescents. In the current study, participants from the Mexican American dropout project and their children will be measured at three time points, when the children are in the third, fourth, and fifth grades. Longitudinal data analyses will be conducted using structural equation modeling, latent transition analysis, and latent growth modeling. The career development plan includes provisions for the PI to obtain training in those advanced statistical techniques. The career development plan is designed to enable the PI to learn about an analytic technique through readings, workshops, etc. and then to utilize this knowledge in the analysis of real data. The PI is a developmental psychologist with postdoctoral training in substance use prevention research. The PI has recently returned to academia following a career interruption and she believes that the acquisition of these statistical skills is integral to her ability to develop an externally funded research program in developmental epidemiology.