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

描述（由申请人提供）：快速的金融，政治和社会变化正在进行中的美国今天有大规模的影响风险行为和健康结果在美国最边缘化的社区。特别容易受到这些过渡进程的影响的是居住在美国的青年，墨西哥边境社区，一个在很大程度上被忽视的人口，其大量记录的酒精消费水平远远超过目前的全国水平。本研究旨在研究居住在美国的墨西哥青年饮酒行为的社会经济和政治快速转变的综合微观和宏观层面框架。墨西哥边境地区。这项研究包括两个不同的阶段。在第一阶段，我们将开展两项定性活动。具体而言，我们将开展：1）聚焦 与来自政府机构、执法部门和当地卫生和服务提供者的当地关键信息提供者（n=20）的小组，以及与居住在边境社区的青少年及其母亲（n=20对）的个人深入访谈。根据第一阶段活动的信息，在第二阶段，我们将对居住在德克萨斯州边境社区的300名母亲-青少年进行调查，以确定青少年饮酒的政治，社会，文化，经济和个人层面的决定因素，这些因素将在更大的范围内进一步探讨。 R 01研究，并确定这些措施的同时有效性。拟议的探索性研究将提供初步数据，以支持研究计划的长期目标，即为边境青年制定有针对性的酒精预防干预措施。鉴于当前全球环境中不稳定的金融和政治事件的持续和频繁发生，拟议的项目意义重大，有可能极大地影响与预防酒精和其他风险行为有关的概念框架。

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.