Mexican Family Culture & Substance Use Risk & Resilience

墨西哥家庭文化

• 批准号: 8248818
• 负责人: Rand Donald Conger
• 金额: $ 2.85万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-07-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8248818
• 关键词: Acculturation; Acute; Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Affect; Age; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Alcohols; Behavior; Budgets; California; Censuses; Characteristics; Child; Childhood; Chronic; Country; Cultural Characteristics; Data; Dependence; Development; Developmental Process; Disease; Drug usage; Economics; Emotional; Ethnic group; Evaluation; Failure; Family; Family Process; Family Research; Family member; Fathers; Foreclosure; Funding; Goals; Growth; HIV; Health; Hispanics; Home environment; Housing; Immigrant; Individual; Intervention; Investigation; Knowledge; Latino; Lead; Life; Longitudinal Studies; Measurement; Measures; Methods; Mexican; Mexican Americans; Mexico; Minority; Modeling; Mothers; Motion; Neighborhoods; Outcome; Parent-Child Relations; Parents; Participant; Pathway interactions; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Phase; Play; Population; Positioning Attribute; Prevalence; Prevention; Prevention program; Problem Solving; Problem behavior; Process; Process Measure; Program Effectiveness; Public Health; Recruitment Activity; Reliance; Reporting; Request for Proposals; Research; Research Methodology; Resources; Risk; Risk Factors; Role; Rosa; Sampling; Schools; Self-control as a personality trait; Sexual Development; Siblings; Social Environment; Stress; Substance Use Disorder; Substance abuse problem; Testing; Time; Tobacco; Translating; Unemployment; United States; Work; Youth; adverse outcome; alcohol risk; alcohol use initiation; anti social; cohort; coping; design; deviant; directed attention; disability; early adolescence; early onset; effective intervention; experience; family influence; high risk; high risk sexual behavior; improved; intervention program; neglect; peer; phase 1 study; prevent; prospective; resilience; response; social; theories; therapy design; trend

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests a second 5 years of support for a continuing study of over 650 families and children of Mexican origin. During the first 5 years of support, two cohorts of families and children were recruited and followed from 5th through 7th or 8th grades. During the next 5 years, we will continue to follow these families and children as they navigate the adolescent years, a time of high risk for involvement with licit and illicit substances. The research will address four important issues related to the initiation and escalation of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) use. First, the investigation will examine risk for and resilience to ATOD use in a critically important ethnic group in the United States, children of Mexican origin. Mexican Americans living in California will soon become the most populous ethnic group in the state, consistent with national trends for Latinos. Second, the investigation will examine developmental pathways leading to the initiation and escalation of ATOD use from late childhood through adolescence. A developmental approach is generally considered the best strategy for informing the creation of effective intervention programs that can prevent the early initiation of ATOD use, when it is most likely to have severe long-term consequences. Third, the investigation will examine family influences on the initiation and escalation of ATOD use, also considered crucial for early prevention. Finally, the investigation will employ state-of-the-art research methods for studying family influences on the development of ATOD use. Hypotheses will be derived from the family stress model, which proposes that acculturation processes, minority experiences, economic hardship, and neighborhood and school risks will affect parent-parent, parent-child, and sibling and peer relationships. These relationships, in turn, are expected to influence the initiation and escalation of ATOD use and related adjustment problems such as risky sexual behaviors, which increase long-term risk for HIV/AIDs and other STDs. The family stress model also proposes that a set of cultural (e.g., respect, familism), personal (e.g., ethnic identity, self-control), and social (e.g., effective family problem solving) resources will promote resilience to the hypothesized risk factors. The major test of these hypotheses will come during the next 5 years when the children enter adolescence and risk for ATOD use increases dramatically. An important goal of this next phase of the research will be to evaluate how risk factors, protective mechanisms, and ATOD use interrelate in a dynamic manner across the adolescent years. Results of the study are expected to inform the development of more effective and culturally sensitive early prevention programs for an important and understudied population. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This research aims to understand (a) the developmental pathways that increase risk for drug use and other adjustment problems in Mexican origin youth living in California and (b) the social, cultural, and personal characteristics that promote resilience to such risks. Knowledge acquired from the project will improve intervention programs intended to promote resilience and prevent the initiation and escalation of drug use in this population.

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案要求第二个5年的支持，以继续研究超过650个家庭和墨西哥裔儿童。在最初的5年支持期间，招募了两组家庭和儿童，并从5年级到7年级或8年级进行跟踪。在接下来的5年里，我们将继续跟踪这些家庭和儿童，因为他们度过了青少年时期，这是一个涉及合法和非法物质的高风险时期。该研究将解决与酒精，烟草和其他药物（ATOD）使用的启动和升级相关的四个重要问题。首先，调查将检查在美国一个至关重要的种族群体，墨西哥裔儿童中使用ATOD的风险和弹性。居住在加州的墨西哥裔美国人将很快成为该州人口最多的族群，这与拉丁裔的全国趋势一致。第二，调查将研究从儿童晚期到青春期ATOD使用的启动和升级的发展途径。发展的方法通常被认为是最好的策略，为创建有效的干预计划，可以防止早期开始使用ATOD，当它是最有可能有严重的长期后果。第三，调查将检查家庭对ATOD使用的启动和升级的影响，这也被认为是早期预防的关键。最后，调查将采用最先进的研究方法，研究家庭对ATOD使用发展的影响。假设将来自家庭压力模型，提出文化适应过程，少数民族的经验，经济困难，邻里和学校的风险将影响父母，父母与子女，兄弟姐妹和同伴的关系。这些关系，反过来，预计会影响ATOD使用的启动和升级以及相关的调整问题，如危险的性行为，这增加了艾滋病毒/艾滋病和其他性病的长期风险。家庭压力模型还提出，一套文化（例如，尊重，家庭主义），个人的（例如，种族认同，自我控制），和社会（例如，有效解决家庭问题）的资源将促进对假设风险因素的复原力。这些假设的主要测试将在未来5年内，当儿童进入青春期，ATOD使用的风险急剧增加。下一阶段研究的一个重要目标是评估风险因素、保护机制和ATOD使用如何在青少年时期以动态方式相互关联。该研究的结果预计将为制定更有效和文化敏感的早期预防计划提供信息，这些计划适用于重要和未充分研究的人群。 公共卫生相关性：本研究旨在了解（a）在墨西哥裔青年生活在加州和（B）的社会，文化和个人特征，促进弹性的风险，增加吸毒和其他调整问题的发展途径。从该项目中获得的知识将改善旨在促进恢复力和防止这一人群中药物使用的开始和升级的干预方案。