Social Meanings of Drugs for Asian American Youth

毒品对亚裔美国青年的社会意义

基本信息

批准号：
7356456
负责人：
JULIET P LEE
金额：
$ 37.16万
依托单位：
PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RES AND EVALUATION
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2005
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2005-04-05 至 2010-01-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This study aims to investigate the social meanings of drugs and drug use for Asian American youth. While Asian Americans are typically considered to have low drug and alcohol use, some troubling patterns of substance use have been identified in specific subgroups; yet there have been few studies of drug and alcohol use among young Asian Americans. The Principal Investigator's preliminary study of 31 drug-involved Laotian and Cambodian youth in the San Francisco Bay Area found that drug use practices and norms are entwined with youths' sense of identity, located within a hybridized Southeast Asian youth culture, and as such these drug norms reflect locally-based constructs of drugs and drug use. Through two waves of in-depth interviews with 140 currently or formerly drug-involved Southeast Asian youths in the East Bay Area over a five-year period, this proposed project will investigate the relationship between drug constructs and sense of identity in the drug pathways of these second generation youth. The proposed study will target males and females, and track changes in drug use, sense of identity and drug constructs by conducting two waves of interviews with youths aged 15-23 at the time of the first wave of data collection. The proposed project specifically aims to: 1. Assess youths' sense of identity of themselves and their primary peer group; 2. Elicit youths' understandings of the effects, consequences, costs, and social valence of specific drugs, including validating the pilot study findings on perceived associations of specific drugs with ethnic, class, and neighborhood identities; and 3. Describe youths' pathways from experimentation to occasional or regular use of specific drugs, as well as to quitting, as these pathways relate to changing sense of self and peer group. The proposed study addresses the aims of NIH PA-02-043, which encourages research on the social and cultural dimensions of health.

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究旨在研究亚裔美国人青年的毒品和药物使用的社会意义。尽管通常认为亚裔美国人的药物和饮酒量很少，但在特定亚组中已经确定了一些令人不安的药物使用模式。然而，在年轻的亚裔美国人中，很少有关于毒品和饮酒的研究。首席研究者对旧金山湾地区的31名毒品涉及老挝和柬埔寨青年的初步研究发现，毒品使用实践和规范与年轻人的认同感纠缠在一起，这些意识位于杂交的东南亚青年文化中，因此这些药物规范反映了基于毒品和药物的基于药物的建筑。通过在五年内对目前有140次或以前涉及毒品涉及的东南亚青年的140次深入的访谈，该项目将调查这些第二代青年的毒品结构与身份意识之间的关系。拟议的研究将针对雄性和女性，并通过在第一批数据收集浪潮时对15-23岁的年轻人进行两次访谈，跟踪药物使用，身份和药物构建体的变化。拟议的项目专门针对： 1。评估年轻人对自己及其主要同伴群体的认同感； 2。引起年轻人对特定药物的影响，后果，成本和社会价值的理解，包括验证对特定药物与种族，阶级和邻里身份的感知关联的试点研究结果；和 3.描述年轻人的途径从实验到偶尔或定期使用特定药物以及退出的途径，因为这些途径与不断变化的自我意识和同伴群体有关。拟议的研究针对NIH PA-02-043的目的，该目标鼓励了对健康的社会和文化维度的研究。