A mixed-methods approach to understanding stress and hazardous drinking among same-sex female couples

了解同性女性伴侣的压力和危险饮酒的混合方法

• 批准号: 10683749
• 负责人: Cindy B Veldhuis
• 金额: $ 24.4万
• 依托单位: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10683749
• 关键词: Acceleration; Address; Affect; Alcohol consumption; Area; Award; Bisexual; Buffers; Characteristics; Chronic; Coping Behavior; Coping Skills; Couples; Data; Development; Discrimination; Event; Exclusion; Exposure to; Faculty; Female; Frequencies; Funding; General Population; Geography; Goals; Health; Health Benefit; Health behavior; Heterosexuals; Individual; Institution; Interview; Laboratories; Lead; Lesbian; Link; Literature; Marriage; Measures; Mentors; Mentorship; Methodology; Methods; Minority; Monitor; Motivation; National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; National Research Service Awards; New York City; Outcome; Pathway interactions; Phase; Political Factor; Populations at Risk; Positioning Attribute; Postdoctoral Fellow; Psychologist; Recording of previous events; Research; Research Activity; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Role; Same-sex; Sampling; Scientist; Secure; Sex Orientation; Source; Stress; Surveys; Testing; Theoretical model; Training; Training Activity; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Woman; Women' s Health; alcohol misuse; alcohol research; alcohol use disorder; analytical method; career; career development; drinking; drinking behavior; emotion regulation; experience; female couples; hazardous drinking; health disparity; high risk; innovation; member; minority stress; minority stressor; novel; professor; programs; psychologic; recruit; response; same-sex partnership; satisfaction; sexual minority health; sexual minority women; social stigma; stress management; stressor; substance use; symposium; tenure track; theories; therapy development; timeline

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT. Sexual minority women (SMW; e.g., lesbian, bisexual) are 6-7 times as likely as heterosexual women to meet criteria for alcohol use disorder, indicating a disproportionately high risk of hazardous drinking (HD) and associated negative health outcomes. SMW's elevated HD risk is believed to be caused, in large part, by lifetime exposure to multiple and chronic stressors. Although the association between stress and HD is well-established, little is known about how relationship characteristics influence stress and HD among SMW. Intimate relationships confer many benefits and are protective against stress-related negative health outcomes. Conversely, relationship stress may lead to unhealthy coping behaviors, such as HD. The proposed study aims to understand the role of HD within same-sex female couples using both qualitative and quantitative data at both the individual- and couple-levels. The specific aims for the K99 phase are to: 1) Explore associations among couple-level relationship factors, stressors, and HD; and 2) Identify individual-level experiences within same-sex female couples that influence drinking behaviors. The major goals of this Pathway to Independence Award are the acceleration and completion of Dr. Cindy Veldhuis' training in alcohol-related research and the launching of her career as an independent scientist with a tenure-track assistant professor position. Dr. Veldhuis is a psychologist and a postdoctoral fellow funded by an NIH/NIAAA F32 National Service Research Award (F32AA025816) at Columbia University. The two-year K99 phase will complete Dr. Veldhuis' training in sexual-orientation-related health disparities in HD. With mentorship, Dr. Veldhuis will: 1) recruit and interview a sample of same-sex female couples (N=50 couples) from the New York City area; 2) use a mixed-methods approach to examine HD and stress within couples to understand predictors of HD in this at-risk population; 3) attend courses, seminars, and conferences related to alcohol use and misuse, sexual minority health, mixed-methods and dyadic analyses, and professional development; 4) lead her own study on SMW's health; 5) disseminate her findings; and 6) secure a tenure-track faculty position at a research-intensive university. The proposed primary mentor Dr. John Pachankis, co-mentors Dr. LeBlanc and Dr. Hughes, and advisory panel members Drs. Stone, George, Keyes, and Schrimshaw are experts in key components of the proposed K99/R00 and collectively provide expertise ideally suited to facilitate the successful completion of the proposed training and research activities. Columbia University is one of the world's most respected research centers and a world-class institution, and thus has the resources needed for successful completion of the training (K99) phase of this proposed award. The three-year R00 phase will allow Dr. Veldhuis to: 1) recruit a geographically and demographically diverse national sample of same-sex female couples (N = 300 couples); 2) test a theoretical framework informed by the K99 findings using empirically validated individual- and couple-level measures; 3) establish her program of research and laboratory; and 4) submit an R01 to NIH/NIAAA. The proposed study extends findings from Dr. Veldhuis' F32 to understand how individual- and couple- level characteristics of same-sex relationships influence HD and will provide preliminary data for her R01 application.

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Predictors of Psychological Distress and Resilience in the Post-COVID-19 Era.

• DOI: 10.1007/s12529-021-10036-8
• 发表时间: 2022-08
• 期刊: International journal of behavioral medicine
• 影响因子: 2.7
• 作者: Lin T;Yi Z;Zhang S;Veldhuis CB
• 通讯作者: Veldhuis CB

Doubly Marginalized: Addressing the Minority Stressors Experienced by LGBTQ+ Researchers Who Do LGBTQ+ Research.

• DOI: 10.1177/10901981221116795
• 发表时间: 2022-12
• 期刊: Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education
• 作者: Veldhuis CB

A Mixed-Methods and Prospective Approach to Understanding Coping Behaviors, Depression, Hopelessness, and Acute Stress in a U.S. Convenience Sample During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

• DOI: 10.1177/10901981221084272
• 发表时间: 2022-04
• 期刊: HEALTH EDUCATION & BEHAVIOR
• 影响因子: 4.2
• 作者: Wootton, Angie R.;Rice, Dylan R.;McKowen, Anna Laura W.;Veldhuis, Cindy
• 通讯作者: Veldhuis, Cindy

Characterizing Health Care Delays and Interruptions in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Internet-Based, Cross-sectional Survey Study.

• DOI: 10.2196/25446
• 发表时间: 2021-05-19
• 期刊: Journal of medical Internet research
• 影响因子: 7.4
• 作者: Papautsky EL;Rice DR;Ghoneima H;McKowen ALW;Anderson N;Wootton AR;Veldhuis C
• 通讯作者: Veldhuis C