Preventing Drug Use in Rural African American

预防农村非裔美国人吸毒

• 批准号: 7281509
• 负责人: Gene H. Brody
• 金额: $ 9.38万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
• 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 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7281509
• 关键词: African American; adolescence (12-20); alcoholic beverage consumption; alcoholism /alcohol abuse prevention; behavior prediction; behavioral /social science research tag; child rearing; clinical research; clinical trials; disease /disorder onset; drug abuse prevention; drug administration rate /duration; emotional adjustment; family structure /dynamics; gender difference; health behavior; human subject; marijuana abuse; peer group; prejudice; rural health; self concept; smoking; substance abuse epidemiology; tobacco abuse prevention

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In this proposal, we request funding to design and evaluate a multi-component prevention program to deter substance use among African American emerging adults in rural Georgia. The intervention's delivery is modeled after Brody and Murry's Strong African American Families Program (SAAF), a preventive intervention for rural adolescents. Prevention programming will include a series of weekly meetings that include separate targeted sessions for emerging adults and for their parents and adult extended family members. Meetings also include sessions in which all family members interact with each other to apply the skills that they learned in their separate sessions. The sample will consist of 700 families that include a high school senior, half of whom will be assigned randomly to the prevention program and half of whom will be assigned to a control group. Pre-intervention, post-intervention, and follow-up assessments of emerging adults' substance use will be conducted with the entire sample. We plan to follow the high-school seniors and their families as they enter emerging adulthood. Many rural African American emerging adults live with chronic environmental stress that takes a toll on them, increasing their likelihood of substance use as they make the transition to emerging adulthood. During this transition, African Americans surpass European Americans in substance use rates (Biafora & Zimmerman, 1998; Office of Applied Statistics, 2003). This divergence of substance use trends has been termed the "racial crossover effect." These data suggest that the protective power that enables African American families to help adolescents avoid substance use wanes as youths become emerging adults and leave their parents' homes (Wallace, 1999). Prevention scientists face the challenge of harnessing African American families' protective capacities so that they continue to deter substance use after youths establish independent residences. Systematic investigations of emerging adults and their families in rural America are rare; even rarer are empirically validated prevention programs for rural African American emerging adults. The proposed research and prevention program is designed to fill this need.

描述（由申请人提供）：在本提案中，我们要求资金设计和评估一项多组分预防计划，以阻止佐治亚州农村地区非裔美国人新兴成年人中使用物质。干预措施的交付是根据布罗迪（Brody）和穆里（Murry）强大的非裔美国人家庭计划（SAAF）建模的，这是农村青少年的预防性干预。预防节目将包括一系列每周会议，其中包括针对新兴成年人及其父母和成人大家庭成员的单独针对性会议。会议还包括会议，所有家庭成员相互互动以运用他们在单独的课程中学到的技能。该样本将由700个家庭组成，其中包括一个高中生，其中一半将被随机分配给预防计划，其中一半将被分配给对照组。整个样本将进行干预前，干预后和新兴成人物质使用的随访评估。我们计划跟随高中生及其家人进入新兴的成年。 许多非裔美国人的新兴成年人都承受着慢性环境压力，造成了损失，增加了他们在过渡到新兴成年时使用毒品的可能性。在这种过渡期间，非洲裔美国人以物质使用率超越了欧洲人（Biafora＆Zimmerman，1998；应用统计局，2003年）。物质使用趋势的这种差异已被称为“种族跨界效应”。这些数据表明，随着年轻人成为新兴的成年人并离开父母的家，使非洲裔美国家庭能够帮助青少年避免使用物质减弱的保护能力（Wallace，1999）。预防科学家面临着利用非裔美国人家庭保护能力的挑战，以便在青年建立独立住所后继续阻止药物使用。对新兴成年人及其家人在美国农村的系统调查很少见。甚至稀有者是针对非裔美国人新兴成年人的经验验证的预防计划。拟议的研究与预防计划旨在满足这一需求。