Risk Factors for HIV Among Urban African American Youth

候选人是一位社会学家，曾获得NIDA的少数民族研究者奖， 关于社区和环境因素及其与青年关系的知识和经验 参与城市地区危害健康的行为。社会研究中心（SRC）， 该候选人目前被聘为研究科学家，是朋友研究的研究校园 研究所（FRI），成立于1955年的私营非营利机构。该中心促进博士前培训 旨在促进行为，公共卫生和公共政策研究的职业生涯的经验，提供 为行为科学领域有才华的研究生和本科生提供入门级职位。 候选人的长期职业目标是成为一名独立调查员。他想 他的职业生涯专注于开发和测试干预模型， 美国青年和成年人面临艾滋病毒/艾滋病的风险。 这位候选人提议由他的主要赞助人珍内特约翰逊博士指导，她是一位美国土著人， 跨文化心理学家，拥有广泛的预防研究知识和专业知识， 在少数群体社区中与艾滋病毒/艾滋病有关的个人、社会和文化风险和保护因素。 在辅导阶段，他还提议在彭博学校学习有关艾滋病毒/艾滋病的课程 他在约翰霍普金斯大学担任公共卫生主任，并参加国家卫生研究院和其他与艾滋病毒/艾滋病有关的会议。 这项为期三年的横断面研究的主要目的是研究在多大程度上 风险和保护因素预测艾滋病毒风险和参与危险性行为的感知 高危非裔美国青年中。这些年轻人，目前参加巴尔的摩城市替代 学习中心（BCALC），已被驱逐出传统的公立学校犯下暴力行为或 因为参与其他严重的违法行为，其中许多人参与了危险的性行为。半年 参与者将在项目第一年接受评估，其余的将在第二年接受评估。 参加者将是200名男女学生，年龄在11岁至17岁之间，从 两所BCALC学校。评估数据将在每年1月至5月期间收集， 两年数据收集。 拟议的研究报告有可能使人们更好地了解与下列方面有关的问题： 高风险城市非洲裔美国人对艾滋病毒风险和参与危险性行为的看法 青年研究结果将对公共卫生领域具有重要意义， 这些青年在艾滋病毒感染风险方面存在知识差距。

The candidate is a sociologist, and a former recipient of a Minority Investigator Award from NIDA, with knowledge and experience regarding community and environmental factors and their relationship to youth involvement in health-compromising behaviors in urban areas. The Social Research Center (SRC), where the candidate is currently employed as a research scientist, is the research campus of Friends Research Institute (FRI), a private non-profit institution established in 1955. The Center promotes pre-doctoral training experiences designed to facilitate careers in behavioral, public health, and public policy research, providing entry-level positions for talented graduate and undergraduate students in the behavioral sciences. The candidate's long-term career objective is to become an independent investigator. He would like to focus his professional career on developing and testing intervention models that place urban African American youth and adults at-risk for HIV/AIDS. The candidate proposes to be mentored by his primary sponsor Dr. Jeannette Johnson, a Native American, cross-cultural psychologist, who has extensive prevention research knowledge and expertise regarding individual, social, and cultural risk and protective factors associated with HIV/AIDS in minority communities. During the mentored phase, he also proposes to take courses regarding HIV/AIDS at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at John's Hopkins University and attend NIH and other HIV/AIDS related conferences. The primary aim of the proposed three-year cross-sectional study is to examine the extent to which specific risk and protective factors predict both perceptions of HIV risk and participation in risky sexual behavior among high-risk African American youth. These youth, currently attending Baltimore City Alternative Learning Centers (BCALC), have been expelled from traditional public schools for committing violent acts or for engaging in other serious infractions, with many engaging in risky sexual behavior. Half of the participants will be assessed the first project year and the remainder assessed in the second year. Participants will be 200 male and female students, between the ages of 11 and 17 randomly selected from two BCALC school sites. Assessment data will be collected from January through May during each of the two data collection years. The research study proposed has the potential to provide a greater understanding of issues related to perceptions of HIV risk and participation in risky sexual behaviors among high-risk urban African American youth. Findings from the study will be of significance to the field of public health by filling important knowledge gaps in terms of risk for HIV infection among such youth.