Risk Factors for Adolescent Drug Use in the United States and Colombia

美国和哥伦比亚青少年吸毒的危险因素

• 批准号: 8547048
• 负责人: Eric C Brown
• 金额: $ 25.71万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-18 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8547048
• 关键词: Address; Adolescent; Age; Alcohol consumption; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Alcohols; Amphetamines; Annual Reports; Caring; Cocaine; Collaborations; Colombia; Commit; Communities; Country; Crime; Data; Decision Making; Developing Countries; Development; Drug usage; English Language; Epidemiology; European; Family; Feedback; Female; Focus Groups; Fostering; Foundations; Gender; Health; High Prevalence; Hispanics; Illicit Drugs; Incidence; International; Intervention; Interview; Knowledge; Latino; Letters; Measurement; Measures; Methodology; Mission; Monitor; National Institute of Drug Abuse; Outcome; Outcome Study; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Police; Policies; Population; Prevalence; Prevention; Prevention approach; Prevention program; Prevention strategy; Preventive Intervention; Process; Production; Psychometrics; Public Health; Reporting; Research; Research Activity; Research Personnel; Risk; Risk Assessment; Risk Factors; Schools; Science; Services; Social Protection; Socioeconomic Status; South American; Structure; Students; Subgroup; Surveys; System; United States; Validity and Reliability; Violence; Youth; adolescent drug use; base; combat; comparative; drug abuse prevention; early onset; ecstasy; evidence base; experience; gang; improved; intervention program; knowledge base; prevention service; programs; research study; social; socioeconomics; stem; user-friendly

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Within the past decade, the Republic of Colombia has undergone a dramatic transformation from a traditionally drug-exporting country to an increasingly drug-consuming country. Recent research has demonstrated escalating rates of substance use by Colombian adolescents, with marked increases among female and urban youth (P¿rez G¿mez & Scoppetta, 2009). Colombian youth now have among the highest prevalence rates of alcohol and drug use of all South American countries (DNE, 2009), with prevalence rates of alcohol and drug use among Colombian adolescents approaching or exceeding those of European and U.S. adolescents (P¿rez-G¿mez & Scoppetta, 2009). Recent rates of juvenile crime, delinquency, and gang membership in Colombia have followed closely the escalation of adolescent drug use (National Police Annual Report, 2009). These findings have prompted a call for the urgent development and implementation of prevention programs, policies, and delivery systems to combat these growing social and health related problems for Colombian youth. As part of this call, the Colombian Ministry for Social Protection and Public Health is currently developing a National Drug Abuse Prevention Strategy, which is taking a scientific, evidence-based approach to developing, adapting, and implementing prevention programs and strategies developed in Colombia the U.S. The Ministry has identified Communities That Care (CTC; Hawkins et al., 2002) as the prevention service delivery system to coordinate prevention initiatives in Colombian communities. A science-based approach to prevention, such as with CTC, is predicated on valid epidemiologic assessment of risk and protective factors that serve as targets for specific preventive interventions and programming. Moreover, the need to disseminate information on community risk and protection to local stakeholders is equally as important if prevention efforts are to be effective, sustainable, and relevant to the specific needs of the community. This project investigates the validity and dissemination of comparable measures of risk and protective factors by combining data from existing, independent, large-scale research studies of adolescent drug use in Colombia and the U.S., and assessing the psychometric equivalency of these measures between the two countries. To the extent that risk and protective factors for adolescent drug use operate similarly between the two countries, the applicability of prevention programs and policies that target these risk and protective factors in U.S. and Colombian youth populations is strengthened. We additionally take a community-based participatory approach in assessing the interpretability, utility, validity, and sustainability of risk and protective factor data in Colombia by sharing thee data in a "user-friendly" format with community leaders and key stakeholders, and obtaining feedback on how to improve the structure and dissemination of these data for improved local decision making of prevention initiatives. This project takes advantage of a timely opportunity to collaboratively develop and share scientific knowledge for the prevention of adolescent drug use in both Colombian and U.S. youth populations.

描述(申请人提供)：在过去的十年里，哥伦比亚共和国经历了一个戏剧性的转变，从一个传统的毒品出口国转变为一个日益增长的毒品消费国。最近的研究表明，哥伦比亚青少年的药物使用率不断攀升，女性和城市青年的吸毒率显著上升(P？rez G？mez&Scoppetta，2009年)。哥伦比亚青年现在是所有南美洲国家中酒精和毒品使用率最高的国家之一(DNE，2009年)，哥伦比亚青少年的酒精和毒品使用率接近或超过欧洲和美国青少年(P？rez-G？mez和Scoppetta，2009)。哥伦比亚最近的青少年犯罪率、犯罪率和帮派成员人数与青少年吸毒升级密切相关(2009年国家警察年度报告)。这些发现促使人们呼吁紧急制定和实施预防方案、政策和提供系统，以应对哥伦比亚青年日益严重的与社会和健康相关的问题。作为这一呼吁的一部分，哥伦比亚社会保护和公共卫生部目前正在制定国家药物滥用预防战略，该战略正在采取科学的、基于证据的方法来制定、调整和实施哥伦比亚制定的预防方案和战略。美国卫生部已确定关爱社区(CTC；Hawkins等人，2002年)为预防服务提供系统，以协调哥伦比亚社区的预防举措。以科学为基础的预防方法，如四氯化碳，是以对风险和保护因素的有效流行病学评估为基础的，这些因素是具体预防措施和方案拟订的目标。此外，如果预防工作要有效、可持续并与社区的具体需要相关，向当地利益攸关方传播有关社区风险和保护的信息也同样重要。该项目通过结合哥伦比亚和美国现有的关于青少年吸毒的独立大规模研究的数据，并评估这些措施在两国之间的心理测量学等价性，来调查风险和保护因素的可比衡量标准的有效性和传播。在某种程度上，青少年吸毒的风险和保护因素起着相似的作用 在两国之间，针对这些风险和保护因素的预防计划和政策在美国和哥伦比亚青年人口中的适用性得到加强。此外，我们还在评估哥伦比亚风险和保护因素数据的可解释性、实用性、有效性和可持续性方面采取了以社区为基础的参与性方法，方法是以“用户友好”的形式与社区领导人和主要利益攸关方共享这些数据，并就如何改进这些数据的结构和传播以改进预防举措的地方决策获得反馈。该项目利用一个及时的机会，在哥伦比亚和美国的青年人口中合作开发和分享预防青少年吸毒的科学知识。