Alcohol Use among Mexican Youth along the U.S.-Mexico Border Region

描述（由申请人提供）：当今美国正在进行的快速金融、政治和社会变革对美国最边缘化社区的风险行为和健康结果具有大规模的影响。居住在美墨边境社区的年轻人尤其容易受到这些过渡过程的影响，这是一个很大程度上被忽视的人群，他们的酒精消费水平远远超过了目前的全国水平。本研究旨在研究居住在美墨边境地区的墨西哥青年饮酒行为的社会经济和政治快速过渡的综合微观和宏观框架。这项研究包括两个不同的阶段。在第一阶段，我们将进行两项定性活动。具体来说，我们将进行：1)聚焦

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The rapid financial, political and social changes on-going in the U.S. today have large-scale implications for the risk behavior and health outcomes in America's most marginalized communities. Particularly vulnerable to these transitional processes are youth residing in U.S.- Mexico border communities, a largely neglected population whose heavy documented levels of alcohol consumption far exceed the current national rate. The present study seeks to examine an integrated micro and macro level framework of socioeconomic and political rapid transition on drinking behavior among Mexican youth residing in the U.S.-Mexico border region. The study consists of two distinct phases. During Phase 1, we will conduct two qualitative activities. Specifically, we will conduct: 1) focus groups with local key informants (n=20) from government institutions, law enforcement, and local health and service providers and 2), individual in-depth interviews with adolescents and their mothers residing in border communities (n=20 dyads). Informed by Phase 1 activities, during Phase 2 we will develop and administer a survey to 300 mother-adolescent dyads residing in Texas border communities to identify the political, social, cultural, economic and individual-level determinants of adolescent alcohol use that will be further explored in the larger R01 study and to establish the concurrent validity of these measures. The proposed exploratory study will provide preliminary data to support the long term goal of the program of research, the development of a targeted alcohol prevention intervention for border youth. The proposed project is highly significant and has the potential to greatly impact conceptual frameworks related to prevention of alcohol and other risk behavior given the ongoing and frequent occurrence of destabilizing financial and political events in the current global environment.