Border Girls: AOD Use, Abuse, and Victimization

边境女孩：AOD 使用、虐待和受害

• 批准号: 7263201
• 负责人: TARA KELLEY-BAKER
• 金额: $ 29.65万
• 依托单位: PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RES AND EVALUATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-30 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7263201
• 关键词: Address; Aggressive behavior; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Alcohols; American; Behavior; Border Crossings; California; Characteristics; Charge; Data; Data Collection; Drug usage; Environment; Evaluation Research; Feasibility Studies; Friends; Goals; Impairment; Individual; Injury; Institutes; Intervention; Lead; Learning; Link; Mexico; National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; Prevention program; Range; Research Project Grants; Risk; Safety; Testing; Texas; Time; Travel; Unsafe Sex; Victimization; Violence; Woman; Work; Youth; aged; alcohol measurement; cohesion; concept; drinking; early /brief intervention /therapy; experience; girls; legal drinking age; member; planetary Atmosphere; therapy development

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): On a typical weekend, more than 7,000 young Americans cross the U.S. border at San Diego into Tijuana, Mexico. PIRE's recent cross-border work reveals that, less than a mile from the border gates, a strip of all night bars caters to young American drinkers. Here, alcohol is cheap and plentiful. The legal drinking age is 18--three years younger than the American minimum legal drinking age--and loosely enforced. The atmosphere is festive, enforcement is lax, and disruptive behavior is often overlooked. Inherent to this environment is violence--and of special concern in this proposal is the violence directed at young women aged 20 and younger. Many of the young women crossing the border seek a "good time" and an opportunity to "break loose" from traditional constraints. Preliminary studies suggest that these young women may be unaware of the possible dangers in this drinking environment. Unfortunately, many discover those risks only when they become victims of harassment, aggression, and violence. The data collected in this research project will provide an overall understanding of the extent of cross-border drinking/drugging and victimization experiences of young women. These data will enhance the existing prevention program framework by directly addressing the risks associated with heavy alcohol/drug use for young women crossing the border. Most relevant to this proposal is that the information gained from the first year of data collection will lead to the development of an intervention to reduce the level of alcohol/drug use and the risks of victimization for young women crossing into Mexico, which then will be tested as a feasibility study.

描述（由申请人提供）：在一个典型的周末，超过 7,000 名美国年轻人从圣地亚哥跨越美国边境进入墨西哥蒂华纳。 PIRE 最近的跨境工作表明，距离边境大门不到一英里，有一条通宵营业的酒吧，迎合年轻的美国饮酒者的需求。在这里，酒品便宜而且充足。法定饮酒年龄为 18 岁，比美国最低法定饮酒年龄小三岁，而且执行宽松。气氛喜庆，执法不严，破坏性行为常常被忽视。这种环境固有的就是暴力——本提案特别关注的是针对 20 岁及以下年轻女性的暴力行为。 许多跨越边境的年轻女性寻求“美好时光”和“摆脱”传统束缚的机会。初步研究表明，这些年轻女性可能没有意识到这种饮酒环境可能存在的危险。不幸的是，许多人只有在成为骚扰、侵略和暴力的受害者时才发现这些风险。 该研究项目收集的数据将有助于全面了解年轻女性跨境饮酒/吸毒和受害经历的程度。这些数据将直接解决年轻女性跨境酗酒/吸毒相关的风险，从而加强现有的预防计划框架。与该提案最相关的是，从第一年的数据收集中获得的信息将导致制定干预措施，以降低酒精/毒品的使用水平以及进入墨西哥的年轻女性受害的风险，然后将作为可行性研究进行测试。