Behaviors Related to Cancer Risk Among African-American College Students

非裔美国大学生与癌症风险相关的行为

• 批准号: 8494187
• 负责人: Kentya Ford
• 金额: $ 8.67万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-05-01 至 2015-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8494187
• 关键词: Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Adopted; Adoption; African American; Alcohol consumption; Attention; Behavior; Behavior Therapy; Behavioral Research; Cancer Control; Chronic; Communities; Data; Development; Diet; Disease; Drug usage; Enrollment; Environmental Risk Factor; Ethnic group; Exposure to; Face; Family; Feasibility Studies; Female; Future; General Population; Goals; Grant; Health; Health Insurance; Health Services Accessibility; Healthcare Systems; High Prevalence; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Human Papillomavirus; Illicit Drugs; Incidence; Individual; Infection; Institution; Insurance Coverage; Intervention; Lead; Life; Malignant Neoplasms; Measures; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Morbidity - disease rate; Nature; Neighborhoods; Not Hispanic or Latino; Obesity; Physical activity; Population; Prevalence; Preventive Intervention; Public Health; Reproductive Health; Research; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Risk Factors; Role; Rural; Smoking; Social support; Spirituality; Stress; Students; Substance abuse problem; Surveys; Sustainable Development; Target Populations; Texas; Time; Tobacco; Tobacco use; Universities; Weight; Weight Gain; Woman; Youth; base; behavior change; cancer risk; cohesion; cohort; college; community college; experience; falls; health disparity; health literacy; high risk sexual behavior; mortality; novel; peer; prevent; public health relevance; racial and ethnic; resilience; response; risk perception; sedentary; social; social attachment; sound; trend; university student; young adult

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): African Americans (AAs) experience profound health disparities in cancer-related risk factors, incidence, and mortality compared to non-Hispanic whites. Cancer risk-related behaviors that are adopted during adolescence and young adulthood, including among college students, are more likely to be sustained later in life. There has been limited attention given to factors that influence the adoption of cancer-related health risk behaviors in AAs attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU's), despite evidence that AAs are at greater risk for adopting health risk behaviors such as smoking, alcohol use, risky sexual behaviors, and illicit drug use during college years in comparison to students attending majority institutions. The overall goal of this R03 feasibility study is to determine the incidence of cancer risk-related behaviors among first-year students attending an HBCU and to examine predictors of adoption of those behaviors, including mental health indicators (i.e., depression and stress), religiosity/spirituality, risk perceptions, health literay, peer and familial influences and access to care. First-year students (n=300) will complete study measures that assess these variables during the fall semester (baseline) and at 6 months post-baseline. The prevalence and adoption of health risk behaviors will be evaluated longitudinally, and factors that predict or correlate with those behaviors will be examined. Results will help guide much needed basic behavioral research in this target population, including the development of sustainable interventions to prevent the adoption of health risk behaviors by young AAs. Importantly, this study will establish an ongoing research partnership with Prairie View A&M University that will facilitate future studies on this campus, which ultimately can be disseminated to other HBCU populations, both public and private.

描述（由申请人提供）：与非西班牙裔白人相比，非洲裔美国人（AA）在癌症相关风险因素、发病率和死亡率方面存在严重的健康差异。在青春期和青年期（包括大学生）采取的与癌症风险相关的行为更有可能在以后的生活中持续下去。一直有有限的关注，影响通过癌症相关的健康风险行为的AA参加历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU的）的因素，尽管有证据表明，AA是在更大的风险采取健康风险行为，如吸烟，饮酒，危险的性行为，和非法药物的使用在大学期间相比，学生参加大多数机构。这项R 03可行性研究的总体目标是确定参加HBCU的一年级学生中癌症风险相关行为的发生率，并检查采用这些行为的预测因素，包括心理健康指标（即，抑郁和压力）、宗教信仰/精神信仰、风险认知、健康知识、同伴和家庭影响以及获得护理的机会。一年级学生（n=300）将在秋季学期（基线）和基线后6个月完成评估这些变量的研究措施。将对健康风险行为的流行和采用进行纵向评估，并对预测这些行为或与这些行为相关的因素进行检查。研究结果将有助于指导这一目标人群急需的基本行为研究，包括制定可持续的干预措施，以防止年轻的AA采取健康风险行为。重要的是，这项研究将与Prairie View A&M大学建立持续的研究合作伙伴关系，这将促进该校园未来的研究，最终可以传播给其他HBCU人群，包括公共和私人人群。